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Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
Title
Domingos Alvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world / James H. Sweet.
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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
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Axe 2nd Floor Stacks
909.049607 Al86Bs 2011
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Description
xvii, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-290) and index.
Contents
Dahomey -- Passages -- Recife -- Rio de Janeiro -- Freedom -- The politics of healing -- Dislocations -- Inquisition -- Algarve -- Obscurity.
Subject
Álvares, Domingos, approximately 1710-
Slaves -- Brazil, Northeast -- Biography.
Healers -- Brazil, Northeast -- Biography.
Healers -- Portugal -- Biography.
Atlantic Ocean Region -- History -- 18th century.
Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History -- 18th century.
Inquisition -- Portugal -- History -- 18th century.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Witchcraft.
Vodou.
Spiritual Therapies -- Africa, Western -- Biography.
Spiritual Therapies -- Brazil -- Biography.
Spiritual Therapies -- Portugal -- Biography.
Religion and Medicine -- Africa, Western -- Biography.
Religion and Medicine -- Brazil -- Biography.
Religion and Medicine -- Portugal -- Biography.
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9780807834497 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807834491 (cloth : alk. paper)
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