Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world

Domingos Álvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world / James H. Sweet.

Author/creator	Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Description	xvii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Álvares, Domingos, approximately 1710- 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. Atlantic Ocean Region--History --18th century.

Contents	Dahomey -- Passages -- Recife -- Rio de Janeiro -- Freedom -- The politics of healing -- Dislocations -- Inquisition -- Algarve -- Obscurity.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-290) and index.
LCCN	2010032661
ISBN	9780807834497 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807834491 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HT869.A58 S84 2011	✔ Available	Place Hold