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



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Autore: Sweet James H (James Hoke) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world [[electronic resource] /] / James H. Sweet Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
Disciplina: 909/.049607092
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Soggetto topico: Slaves - 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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
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ISBN: 1-4696-0639-9
0-8078-7804-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910458208403321
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