Domingos lvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

Brand: The University of North Carolina Press

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UPC:
9780807834497
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
2011-02-28
Author:
James H. Sweet
Language:
english
Edition:
New edition
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Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe--addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, James H. Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.