Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
Paperback – Illustrated, August 1, 2013
The University of North Carolina Press · Paperback · August 1, 2013
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.
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- Genres
- South American History, Lives in History, West African History
- Published
- The University of North Carolina Press, August 1, 2013
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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.
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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.
Where it sits
| Lives in History | 37% |
|---|---|
| South American History | 27% |
| West African History | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Lives in History
- West African History
- South American History
- Authors
- James H. Sweet
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- August 1, 2013
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Lives in History