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Autore: | Sweet James H (James Hoke) |
Titolo: | Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world [[electronic resource] /] / James H. Sweet |
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.: | 9910791558703321 |
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