African Culture in Brazilian Art
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 18991828 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Abdias Do Nascimento (0000-0001-8801-6012, State University of New York at Buffalo, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 1978 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 389-422 |
| Data de publicação | 1978-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal of Black Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002193477800800401 |
| OpenAlex | W2160770453 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 5 |
| Referências citadas | 6 |
It would not be possible to understand relationship between African culture and development of Arts in Brazil, or to establish influences resulting from it without mentioning first, however briefly, necessary historical data. Levi-Strauss (1952: 97) once said that the way to progress is laden with adventures, ruptures, and scandals. We should start, then, by examining greatest scandal, one never surpassed in history of humans: enslavement of Black Africans. In Brazil, it is slavery that defines quality, extensiveness, and intensity of physical and spiritual relationship between sons of three continents that met there; confronting each other in epic of building a new country, with its own characteristics, both in formation of its people and in specificity of its spirit that is to say, a culture and civilization in its own right. The starting point was discovery of Brazil by Portuguese in 1500. The immediate exploitation of new land progressed with simultaneous appearance of Black Race and its fertilizing of Brazilian soil with tears, blood, and martyrdom of slavery. Around 1530, Africans, who had landed in chains, had already started playing their new role of labor force; by 1535, slave trade to Brazil was already a regular and organized business, which would very rapidly increase to enormous proportions. As first productive activity of Portuguese colony, sugar mills and sugar
Adventure · African culture · Archaeology · Art history · Civilization · Ethnology · Handicraft · Immigration · Melting pot · Political science · Popularity · Portuguese · Race (biology) · Sociology · The arts · Gender Studies · History · Law · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Philosophy
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,36 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2012 - 2022 (11) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 5 |