Domingos ï¿½lvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

Name: Domingos ï¿½lvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
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ISBN: 9781469609751

ISBN-10: 1469609754

ISBN-13: 9781469609751

Edition: 2013

Authors: James H. Sweet

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Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this 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.Alvares treated many people across the Atlantic, yet healing was rarely a simple matter of remedying illness and disease. Through the language of health and healing, Alvares also addressed the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade. As a result, he and other…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English