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Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770
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- Creator
- James H. Sweet
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807862346, 9798890876706, 9780807828083, 9780807854822, 0807862347, 0807828084, 0807854824
- OCLC
- ocm56356693, ocm51519823
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index.
- Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Demography, distribution, and diasporic streams -- Kinship, family, and household formation -- Disease, mortality, and master power -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church -- African Catholicism in the Portuguese world -- The impacts of African religious beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism