Domingos âAlvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world
(2011)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : The University of North Carolina Press : Made available through hoopla, 2011
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780807878040 (electronic bk.) MWT11720313, 0807878049 (electronic bk.) 11720313
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe--addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, James H. 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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