NAÇÃO AFRICANA NO BRASIL ESCRAVISTA: PROBLEMAS TEÓRICOS E METODOLÓGICOS
Roger Bastide, in 1967, and John Thornton, in 1992, offered important contributions to the question of the colonial African "nation" in the diaspora, when they defined it as a political institution of the slave societies founded in the New World. Since then the African "nation¿ came t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal da Bahia - Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Afro-Ásia |
| Online Access: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=77015013006 |
| Summary: | Roger Bastide, in 1967, and John Thornton, in 1992, offered important contributions to the question of the colonial African "nation" in the diaspora, when they defined it as a political institution of the slave societies founded in the New World. Since then the African "nation¿ came to represent a conceptual problematic in itself, rooted in the urban environment and apart from the "sugar plantation" or "the master house and the slave quarters" complexes.
Unfortunately, the following generations, in spite of having considerably expanded the empirical basis of the theme, when it came to interpret it, they overestimated the role of collective imagination and of the "invention of tradition", influenced as they were by prestigious academic models developed for other historical contexts. This article discusses in detail some of the main moments in the trajectory of this problematic. |
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| ISSN: | 0002-0591 1981-1411 |