James H. Sweet

Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Álvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time — from Africa to South America to Europe — addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, James H. 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807878040
• Artikelnr.: 49970701

Autorenporträt

James H. Sweet is Vilas-Jartz Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. His book Recreating Africa won the American Historical Association’s 2004 Wesley Logan prize for the best book on the history of the African diaspora.