03257nam 2200769 a 450 991079155870332120231206211641.0979-88-908400-1-11-4696-0639-90-8078-7804-9(CKB)2560000000055423(EBL)655818(OCoLC)703226349(SSID)ssj0000468539(PQKBManifestationID)11331649(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468539(PQKBWorkID)10506994(PQKB)11451719(OCoLC)966767929(MdBmJHUP)muse48708(Au-PeEL)EBL655818(CaPaEBR)ebr10442135(MiAaPQ)EBC655818(MiAaPQ)EBC4322175(EXLCZ)99256000000005542320100816d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDomingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world[electronic resource] /James H. SweetChapel Hill [N.C.] University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (321 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-0975-4 0-8078-3449-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexBetween 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 a simple matter of remedying illness and disease. Through the language of health and healing, Alvares also addressEnslaved personsBrazil, NortheastBiographyHealersBrazil, NortheastBiographyHealersPortugalBiographySlave tradeAfrica, WestHistory18th centuryInquisitionPortugalHistory18th centuryMedicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiricWitchcraftVoodooismAtlantic Ocean RegionHistory18th centuryEnslaved personsHealersHealersSlave tradeHistoryInquisitionHistoryMedicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.Witchcraft.Voodooism.909/.049607092BSweet James H(James Hoke)50829MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791558703321Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world3732694UNINA