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Author Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)

Title Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world / James H. Sweet
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Dahomey -- Passages -- Recife -- Rio de Janeiro -- Freedom -- The politics of healing -- Dislocations -- Inquisition -- Algarve -- Obscurity
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Álvares, Domingos, approximately 1710-
SUBJECT Álvares, Domingos, . approximately 1710
Álvares, Domingos, approximately 1710-
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Subject 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.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- World.
Spiritual healing
Medicine -- Religious aspects
Healers
Inquisition
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
Slave trade
Enslaved persons
Vodou
Witchcraft
Sklavenhandel
Wodu
Heiler
Imperialismus
Geistheilung
SUBJECT Atlantic Ocean Region -- History -- 18th century
Africa, West. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001688
Africa, Western
Portugal
Brazil
Subject West Africa
Atlantic Ocean Region
Northeast Brazil
Portugal
Westafrika
Portugal
Brasilien
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010032661
ISBN 9780807878040
0807878049
9781469606392
1469606399