Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World /
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.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dahomey
- Passages
- Recife
- Rio de Janeiro
- Freedom
- The politics of healing
- Dislocations
- Inquisition
- Algarve
- Obscurity.


