Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world / James H. Sweet.

Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world / James H. Sweet.

By tracing the steps of Domingos Alvares, a 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.

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Main Author: Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Álvares, Domingos, > approximately 1710-
Álvares, Domingos, > . approximately 1710.
Enslaved persons > Brazil, Northeast > Biography.
Healers > Brazil, Northeast > Biography.
Healers > Portugal > Biography.
Slave trade > Africa, West > History > 18th century.
Inquisition > Portugal > History > 18th century.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Witchcraft.
Vodou.
Spiritual healing.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
Spiritual Therapies
Religion and Medicine
Witchcraft
witchcraft.
voodoo.
Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 18th century.
Africa, West.
Africa, Western
Portugal
Brazil
Genre/Form:Biography, Biographies
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