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UNINA9910791558703321 |
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Autore |
Sweet James H (James Hoke) |
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Titolo |
Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world [[electronic resource] /] / James H. Sweet |
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Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908400-1-1 |
1-4696-0639-9 |
0-8078-7804-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (321 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Enslaved persons - Brazil, Northeast |
Healers - Brazil, Northeast |
Healers - Portugal |
Slave trade - Africa, West - History - 18th century |
Inquisition - Portugal - History - 18th century |
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric |
Witchcraft |
Voodooism |
Atlantic Ocean Region History 18th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 DAHOMEY; 2 PASSAGES; 3 RECIFE; 4 RIO DE JANEIRO; 5 FREEDOM; 6 THE POLITICS OF HEALING; 7 DISLOCATIONS; 8 INQUISITION; 9 ALGARVE; 10 OBSCURITY; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.Alvares treated many people across the Atlantic, yet healing was rarely |
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