Publisher (Source)
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2003
Recreating Africa culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770
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- s3://nnels-data-prod/CA/BC/BVAUCC/0204_Recreating_Africa_etext.zipPublisher: Crane Library,
Details:
- Author: Sweet, James H.Contents:
- Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora
- Demography, distribution, and diasporic streams
- Kinship, family, and household formation
- Disease, mortality, and master power
- Part II. African religious responses
- Catholic vs. "other" in the world of believers
- Theory and praxis in the study of African religions
- African divination in the diaspora
- Calunds, curing, and medicine in the colonial world
- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora
- Part III. Africans and the Catholic.
Subject(s): HistoryOriginal Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2003Language(s): English