Recreating Africa Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770

Name: Recreating Africa Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
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ISBN: 9780807854822

ISBN-10: 0807854824

ISBN-13: 9780807854822

Edition: 2003

Authors: James H. Sweet

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Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than 1 million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the cultures of Central Africa from which the slaves came--Ndembu, Imbangala, Kongo, and others--Sweet identifies specific cultural rites and beliefs that survived their transplantation to the African-Portuguese diaspora, arguing that they did not give way to immediate creolization in the New World but remained distinctly African for some time. Slaves transferred many cultural practices from their…

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List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Living and Dying in the African-Portuguese Diaspora



Demography, Distribution, and Diasporic Streams



Kinship, Family, and Household Formation



Disease, Mortality, and Master Power



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



Africans and the Catholic Church



African Catholicism in the Portuguese World



The Impacts of African Religious Beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index