Recreating Africa
Sweet, James H.
Recreating Africa culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / [electronic resource] : James H. Sweet. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xvi, 296 p. : ill., maps.
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 -- Calunds, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Blacks--Religion.--Brazil
Blacks--Social conditions.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--History.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--Catholic Church--History.
Afro-Brazilian cults.
Brazil--Civilization--African influences.
Electronic books.
F2659.N4 / S94 2003eb
981/.00496
Recreating Africa culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / [electronic resource] : James H. Sweet. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xvi, 296 p. : ill., maps.
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 -- Calunds, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Blacks--Religion.--Brazil
Blacks--Social conditions.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--History.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--Catholic Church--History.
Afro-Brazilian cults.
Brazil--Civilization--African influences.
Electronic books.
F2659.N4 / S94 2003eb
981/.00496