Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / / James H. Sweet.
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| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 296 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of 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
- Calunds, curing, and medicine in the colonial world
- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora
- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church.