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Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 /

Sweet chronicles the lives of African slaves taken by Portuguese traders from Central Africa to Portugal and especially Brazil, one of the main regions of the African diaspora. He finds that slaves transferred their African cultural practices to the New World and that Central African cultural forms...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora
  • Demography, distribution, and diasporic streams
  • Kinship, family, and household formation
  • Disease, mortality, and master power
  • Part II. African religious responses
  • Catholic vs. "other" in the world of believers
  • Theory and praxis in the study of African religions
  • African divination in the diaspora
  • Calundus, curing, and medicine in the colonial world
  • Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora
  • Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church
  • African Catholicism in the Portuguese world
  • The impacts of African religious beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism.