Recreating Africa [electronic resource] : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet.
Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
2003
F2659.N4 S94 2003eb
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Title Recreating Africa [electronic resource] : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet.
Author Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
ISBN 0807862347
0807828084 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807854824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
Language English
Description xvi, 296 p. : ill., maps.
Call Number F2659.N4 S94 2003eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 981/.00496
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
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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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