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Recreating Africa [electronic resource] : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.Description: xiv, 296 p. : ill., maps 25 cmISBN:
  • 0807862347 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 981/.00496 22
LOC classification:
  • F2659.N4 S94 2003eb
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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 -- Calundus, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church -- African Catholicism in the Portuguese world -- The impacts of African religious beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.

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 -- Calundus, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church -- African Catholicism in the Portuguese world -- The impacts of African religious beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2004. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Excludes some or all of the images which were part of the original book.

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