Laura Álvarez López

Who named slaves and their children? Names and naming practices among enslaved Africans brought to the Americas and their descendants with focus on Brazil

The aim of the paper is to discuss names and naming practices among Africans and their descendants in slave societies in the Americas and to present a brief overview of naming systems among these groups in colonial as well as modern Brazil. Data from previous research on names and naming practices in a number of slave societies in the Americas constitute the point of departure for discussing who named enslaved Africans and their sons and daughters, in order to provide an overview of the different types of names that have been registered for such groups, and to comment on how these names may have been chosen and used, as well as how they reflect power relations and express resistance. The paper shows that owners were not always the name-givers of slaves and that, although African names are rare in historical records, modern naming practices may still include components of African origins and evoke memories of collective experiences.The aim of the paper is to discuss names and naming practices among Africans and their descendants in slave societies in the Americas and to present a brief overview of naming systems among these groups in colonial as well as modern Brazil. Data from previous research on names and naming practices in a number of slave societies in the Americas constitute the point of departure for discussing who named enslaved Africans and their sons and daughters, in order to provide an overview of the different types of names that have been registered for such groups, and to comment on how these names may have been chosen and used, as well as how they reflect power relations and express resistance. The paper shows that owners were not always the name-givers of slaves and that, although African names are rare in historical records, modern naming practices may still include components of African origins and evoke memories of collective experiences.

A Cupópia do Cafundó : uma análise morfossintática

The present study analyzes the speech of the Afro-Brazilian rural community of Cafundo, located 150 km from Sao Paulo. Between 1978 and 1988, when the analyzed data were collected, the community ha ...

Dinâmicas Afro-Latinas

A tentativa de compreender como nascem as variedades de uma lingua nao pode ser dissociada da investigacao sobre os aspectos historicos que permeiam a emergencia dessas variedades. Da mesma forma, ...

Sandro Sessarego: Chota Valley Spanish, 2013. Madrid / Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert

Sandro Sessarego: Chota Valley Spanish, 2013. Madrid / Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert

‘SARAVÁ ZIFIU!’: A integração do prefixo ‘ZI’ em Afro-variedades do português

Tendo como pano de fundo a pesquisa sobre a participacao de africanos e afrodescendentes na constituicao do portugues brasileiro, o objetivo deste trabalho e analisar ocorrencias do prefixo z’/zi , assim como sua variante ji , em representacoes orais e escritas da fala de africanos e seus descendentes no Brasil e compara-las com ocorrencias da mesma particula em variedades do portugues africano. As questoes de pesquisa sao: qual e a origem desta particula e como se deu sua integracao no portugues brasileiro e nas variedades do portugues africano? Argumenta-se que a particula em questao e um vestigio de prefixo de classe nominal de origem bantu que perdeu a sua funcao gramatical.