Recreating Africa
Sweet, James H.
Recreating Africa culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / [electronic resource] : James H. Sweet. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xiv, 296 p. : ill., maps 25 cm.
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.
0807862347 (electronic bk.)
Blacks--Religion.--Brazil
Blacks--Social conditions.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--History.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--Catholic Church--History.
Afro-Brazilian cults.
Brazil--Civilization--African influences.
Electronic books.
F2659.N4 / S94 2003eb
981/.00496
Recreating Africa culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / [electronic resource] : James H. Sweet. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xiv, 296 p. : ill., maps 25 cm.
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.
0807862347 (electronic bk.)
Blacks--Religion.--Brazil
Blacks--Social conditions.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--History.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--Catholic Church--History.
Afro-Brazilian cults.
Brazil--Civilization--African influences.
Electronic books.
F2659.N4 / S94 2003eb
981/.00496
