THE HERITAGE FROM PRE-COLONIAL AFRICA ON COMERCIAL PRACTICES AT SALVADOR AND RIO DE JANEIRO: CONTINUITIES AND RUPTURES

Abstract

The market environment and the comercial practices always had great social importance, far beyond the financial meaning, for bantu and sudanese folks, two of the cultures wich suffered the most with the rapt of its population for the black traffic transitions made by Europeans between African continent and the Americas. When brought to Brazilian cities, mostly Salvador and Rio de Janeiro, African individuals came to reproduce some of those sociocultural practices. It’s possible to observe continuities and ruptures when we look at the cultural meaning of these practices and at the commercial environments in Brazil in comparison with the same factors in pre-colonial Africa, may it be for hegemonic imposition or by adaptation or surviving. In this work, I’ll seek to identify some possibilities of these continuities and ruptures, always paying attention to the different relevances of the markets and commerce to diasporics people brought to Brazilian cities.