Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world [[electronic resource] /] / James H. Sweet

• Autore: Sweet James H (James Hoke)
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 909/.049607092; B
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Atlantic Ocean Region History 18th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 a simple matter of remedying illness and disease. Through the language of health and healing, Alvares also address
• Titolo autorizzato: Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world
• ISBN: 979-88-908400-1-1; 1-4696-0639-9; 0-8078-7804-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822192003321
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