Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.Description: xiv, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: - 0807828084 (alk. paper)
- 0807854824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- F2659.N4Â .S94 2003
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| Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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| TAMCAS Library TAMCAS General shelves | F2659.N4 .S94 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | CAS | A-7493 | |
| TAMCAS Library TAMCAS General shelves | F2659.N4 .S94 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | CAS | A-10205 |
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 -- 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.
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