02447nam a2200397Ia 4500 ocm56356693 OCoLC 20200709055114.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 040826s2003 ncuab sb s001 0 eng d N$T N$T 0807862347 (electronic bk.) 114700 (N$T) F2659.N4 S94 2003eb 981/.00496 22 N$TA Sweet, James H. (James Hoke) Recreating Africa [electronic resource] : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / 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. Blacks Brazil Religion. Blacks Brazil Social conditions. Slavery and the church Brazil History. Slavery and the church Catholic Church History. Afro-Brazilian cults. Brazil Civilization African influences. Electronic books. local NetLibrary, Inc. Original 0807828084 0807854824 (DLC) 2003001194 (OCoLC)51519823 Bibliographic record display http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=114700 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information 02 N$T 48879 48879