Bibliograph

Recreating Africa, culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770, James H. Sweet

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Recreating Africa, culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770, James H. Sweet

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Recreating Africa

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

51519823

Responsibility statement

James H. Sweet

Sub title

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

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 -- 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

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