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Recreating Africa culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770

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  • Author: Sweet, James H.
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    2009
    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.
    Subject(s): African Americans | Brazil | Catholic Church | History | Religion | Slavery and the church | Social conditions
    Original Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2003
    Language(s): English