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The University of North Carolina Press

Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

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Title: Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
Author: James H Sweet
ISBN: 9781469609751
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2013
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Number of Pages: 320
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.