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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.

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.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Dahomey
  • Passages
  • Recife
  • Rio de Janeiro
  • Freedom
  • The politics of healing
  • Dislocations
  • Inquisition
  • Algarve
  • Obscurity.