Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World /

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By tracing the steps of Domingos Alvares, a 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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Álvares, Domingos > 1710-
Álvares, Domingos, > approximately 1710-
Álvares, Domingos, > . approximately 1710.
Geistheilung
Imperialismus
Heiler
Wodu
Sklavenhandel
Witchcraft.
Vodou.
Slaves.
Slave trade.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Inquisition.
Healers.
HISTORY > World.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
voodoo.
witchcraft.
Medecine > Aspect religieux.
Guerison par la foi.
Vaudou.
Sorcellerie.
Medecine magique, mystique et spagirique.
Inquisition > Portugal > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique occidentale > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Guerisseurs > Portugal > Biographies.
Guerisseurs > Nordeste (Bresil) > Biographies.
Witchcraft
Religion and Medicine
Spiritual Therapies
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Spiritual healing.
Inquisition > Portugal > History > 18th century.
Slave trade > Africa, West > History > 18th century.
Healers > Portugal > Biography.
Healers > Brazil, Northeast > Biography.
Slaves > Brazil, Northeast > Biography.
Brasilien
Portugal
Westafrika
Portugal.
Northeast Brazil.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
West Africa.
Afrique occidentale.
Atlantique, Region de l' > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Brazil
Africa, Western
Africa, West.
Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 18th century.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:By tracing the steps of Domingos Alvares, a 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781469606392

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