African Diaspora Protection

Amulets in New Spain, New Granada, and the Caribbean

Bibliographic Data

ID3002882
AuthorsAndrea Guerrero Mosquera (0000-0002-3152-1883, University of Tolima, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume50
Issue2
Pages285-319
Publication date2023-06-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0120-2456 • E-ISSN: 2256-5647
PublisherUniversidad Nacional de Colombia (PUBLISHER • CO)
DOI10.15446/achsc.v50n2.103038
OpenAlexW4387193367
LanguageEN
References cited19

Objective: To underline that beyond the territories under Portuguese rule, evidence of the use of protective amulets can also be found in places under Hispanic control and the Caribbean. This study aims to enrich historiography on the subject and dialogue with it regarding source analysis and a rereading based on the descriptions of central-western Africa from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Methodology: It interrogates sources widely used for the study of African matrix cultures in America from a different perspective and reviews non-written sources that allow visualizing written ones in theircontext. Originality: This paper contributes to the understanding of how sources can be reread to research African Diaspora cultures in the light of their connected history, tracing the use of these amulets in specific socio-cultural contexts. Conclusions: By considering and interrogating diverse sources on the conversion of Africans and the African diaspora in the Americas, these stories transcend the immutable benevolence of Catholicism and Eurocentrism and question the myopia of the Jesuits and inquisitors in New Spain and New Granada when observing African customs

Archaeology · Diaspora · Ethnology · Eurocentrism · Historiography · Library science · Originality · Portuguese · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · History of Colonial Brazil · Philosophy

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