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Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet |
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Chapel Hill, London :
University of North Carolina Press
, cop. 2003 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XIV-296 p.) |
| Contenu : | 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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| Bibliographie : | Bibliogr. p. 265-285. Index |
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| ISBN : | 0-8078-2808-4 0-8078-5482-4 |