Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Few people will have heard about the "War of the Mad" (Guerra dos doidos) that tore apart the fragile fabric of Timorese society in 1776-86, or the protests staged by Black working women in Lisbon in 1717 against the Municipal council's tax plans.Only rarely does one hear the story of Ana Dias, whose home in Funchal became a focus of illegal Jewish practices in the late 1500s, or the rise and fall of Tamandaré, also known as "Papa António", the indigenous leader of a chiliastic cult causing the authorities trouble in the backcountry of Bahia, also in the sixteenth century.At the very best, these will be stories known to local audiences, but seldom are they presented together to a readership interested in the Portuguese-speaking world as a whole.Resistências arises from the need for an overarching study of movements of resistance against authority in the Portuguese Empire up to the mid-nineteenth centuries.It began with a series of twelve articles published in the Portuguese weekly Expresso, to which almost forty more pieces have now been added.All are in connection with the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation project RESISTANCE: rebelião e resistência nos impérios ibéricos, séculos XVI-XIX, funded by the European Union as part of its Horizon 2020 programme.
Source: Lusotopie
Author: Zoltán Biedermann
Institution: University College London
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4389427139