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Author:

Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)

Title:

Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xiv, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Blacks--Brazil--Religion.
Blacks--Brazil--Social conditions.
Slavery and the church--Brazil--History.
Slavery and the church--History.--History.
Afro-Brazilian cults.
Brazil--African influences.--African influences.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.

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 -- Calundús, 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.

ISBN:

9780807854822 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807854824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807828083 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807828084 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)51519823

LCCN:

2003001194

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)