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Recreating Africa culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 /

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Main Author: Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Calunds, curing, and medicine in the colonial world
  • Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora
  • Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church.

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