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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777595003321

Autore

Sweet James H (James Hoke)

Titolo

Recreating Africa [[electronic resource] ] : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / / James H. Sweet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003

ISBN

979-88-908767-0-6

0-8078-6234-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

981/.00496

Soggetti

Black people - Brazil - Religion

Black people - Brazil - Social conditions

Slavery and the church - Brazil - History

Slavery and the church - Catholic Church - History

Afro-Brazilian cults

Brazil Civilization African influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Demography, distribution, and diasporic streams -- Kinship, family, and household formation -- Disease, mortality, and master power -- Part II. African religious responses -- Catholic vs. "other" in the world of believers -- Theory and praxis in the study of African religions -- African divination in the diaspora -- Calunds, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church.

Sommario/riassunto

Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770