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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill [North Carolina] :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-266) and index. |
ISBN: | 1469630885 9781469630885 1469630893 9781469630892 |