Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual

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

Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Alvares 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 Alvares, 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.

Country	USA
Brand	University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer	The University of North Carolina Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations, maps
ReleaseDate	2011-02-28
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781469609751

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