Name: Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9781469609751

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Authors: James H. Sweet
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: August 1, 2013
Format: Paperback
Theme: West African History · African Studies
Reading lane: West African History

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Lives in History
West African History
South American History

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Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Álvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time — from Africa to South America to Europe — addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World , James H. Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighte...

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Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Álvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time — from Africa to South America to Europe — addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health and healing. In Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World , James H. Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.