Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World |
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| Author:
| Sweet, James H. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4696-0975-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $37.50 |
Book Description:
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Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time - from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James 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.
Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time - from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James 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.