LEADER 03237nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910458208403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0639-9 010 $a0-8078-7804-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055423 035 $a(EBL)655818 035 $a(OCoLC)703226349 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000468539 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11331649 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468539 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10506994 035 $a(PQKB)11451719 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC655818 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4322175 035 $a(OCoLC)966767929 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48708 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL655818 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10442135 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055423 100 $a20100816d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDomingos A?lvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world$b[electronic resource] /$fJames H. Sweet 210 $aChapel Hill [N.C.] $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-0975-4 311 $a0-8078-3449-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aBetween 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 address 606 $aSlaves$zBrazil, Northeast$vBiography 606 $aHealers$zBrazil, Northeast$vBiography 606 $aHealers$zPortugal$vBiography 606 $aSlave trade$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aInquisition$zPortugal$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMedicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric 606 $aWitchcraft 606 $aVoodooism 607 $aAtlantic Ocean Region$xHistory$y18th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSlaves 615 0$aHealers 615 0$aHealers 615 0$aSlave trade$xHistory 615 0$aInquisition$xHistory 615 0$aMedicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric. 615 0$aWitchcraft. 615 0$aVoodooism. 676 $a909/.049607092 676 $aB 700 $aSweet$b James H$g(James Hoke)$050829 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458208403321 996 $aDomingos A?lvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world$92452378 997 $aUNINA