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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.Description: xiv, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0807828084 (alk. paper)
  • 0807854824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F2659.N4 S94 2003
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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 -- 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.
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Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) General Circulation Non-fiction F2659.N4 S94 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 006462
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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.

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