Recreating Africa :
Sweet, James H.
Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xiv, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
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 -- Calundus, 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.
0807828084 (alk. paper) 0807854824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003001194
Blacks--Religion.--Brazil
Blacks--Social conditions.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--History.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--Catholic Church--History.
Afro-Brazilian cults.
Brazil--Civilization--African influences.
F2659.N4 / S94 2003
Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xiv, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
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 -- Calundus, 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.
0807828084 (alk. paper) 0807854824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2003001194
Blacks--Religion.--Brazil
Blacks--Social conditions.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--History.--Brazil
Slavery and the church--Catholic Church--History.
Afro-Brazilian cults.
Brazil--Civilization--African influences.
F2659.N4 / S94 2003