SCA-UA 572 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Godparent, Fictive Kinship, Partible Inheritance
5 Feb 2015
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Topic: 9/15 lecture: majority of participants in uprising were probably not practicing muslims. Intentions/plans of uprising [speculation: expand beyond city to urge general slave uprising, wanted to enslave mulattos, pictures shouldn"t be taken as a slice of life . Topic: gender, patriarchy, patronage / second empire (1841-1889, reign of dom pedro. Slide: gilberto freyre casa grande & senzala: his argument: brazil"s relatively nonviolent, reciprocal relations stemmed from patriarchal relations that formed on sugar plantations. The plantation owner was benevolent patriarch who ensured protection for all of his slaves. Believed capitalist individualist ethic was problem of century since it left poor unprotected: he was aware of brutal aspects of slavery but didn"t want to focus on it, and instead focused on benevolent patriarchy. Is fazendeiro (coffee planter) a patriarch: dependents: the family, agregados/clients, slaves. Lecture review 9/17: catholic involvement in culture (godparantage, it didn"t have as much influence as it did in other regions of spanish.
