Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ATLANTIC_ANGOLA (Race, Church, and Colonial Government in the Atlantic: the case of Angola in the age of Enlightenment)
Berichtszeitraum: 2017-09-01 bis 2019-08-31
The disciplining role of the Church during the Early Modern Age is not particular to the colonial contexts. What is new in later 18th-century discourses and projects related to Angola is the intention of reducing the impact of the formation of a “creolized” society, one in which habits, values, and practices were transformed in a “contact zone”.The hypothesis of ATLANTIC_ANGOLA is that at least part of the population resisted the disciplining aims of the rulers. That resistance took different forms, but the result was the constitution of a creolized society, mainly in the city of Luanda and its hinterland. So, it will also be important to try to understand how creolized identities were built and how people with different (scattered?) identities interacted in the same place. Doing this, the ultimate aim will be to characterize the “colonial population” in order to identify the ways that colonial rulers dealt with the diverse populations living in Luanda and other Portuguese settlements in Angola.