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Recreating Africa [electronic resource] : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet.

By: Sweet, James H. (James Hoke).
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003Description: xvi, 296 p. : ill., maps.Subject(s): Blacks -- Brazil -- Religion | Blacks -- Brazil -- Social conditions | Slavery and the church -- Brazil -- History | Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church -- History | Afro-Brazilian cults | Brazil -- Civilization -- African influencesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 981/.00496 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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 -- Calunds, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 -- Calunds, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.