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Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Brazil--Religion.
- Black people.
- Black people--Brazil--Social conditions.
- Slavery and the church--Brazil--History.
- Slavery and the church.
- Slavery and the church--Catholic Church--History.
- Afro-Brazilian religions.
- Brazil--Civilization--African influences.
- Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
- 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 Church.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890876706
- 9780807862346
- 0807862347
- OCLC:
- 56356693
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