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The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic /

"Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body, healing, and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gómez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and fre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gómez, Pablo F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body, healing, and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gómez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as justified by how it relates to well known frameworks for the study of science and medicine"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xix, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-266) and index.
ISBN:1469630885
9781469630885
1469630893
9781469630892