Recreating Africa
culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770
Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
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Electronic books.
ncu
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
c2003
2003
monographic
eng
xiv, 296 p. : ill., maps 25 cm.
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.
James H. Sweet.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
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
F2659.N4 S94 2003eb
981/.00496
(DLC) 2003001194
(OCoLC)51519823
0807862347 (electronic bk.)
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