Pencas de balangandãs: construção histórica, visual e social das "crioulas " no século XIX

Abstract

The dissertation aims to understand the jewelry balangandã trinkets, used by the Brazilian African, called “crioula”, from nineteenth-century in Salvador - Bahia. The jewelry was used in a mixed slave society full of racial distinction, it was seen as an artifact, in other words, as a human production, with meanings that contributed to historical and social construction. From a qualitative study and in a cultural visual approach, the jewelry was studied through the analysis of nineteenth- century photographic images. Bibliographical research was done about balangandã trinkets, images analysis, racial constructions and visual culture. The study was designed in three stages: 1) the description of the methods of studies adopted; 2) the study of the bangles from their origins since racial issues and African Diaspora in Brazil to the description of its components and; 3) analyses of photos of XIX century Crioula wearing typical costumes and their meaning and relationship with the construction of the image of women called “crioula”.