Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441 - 1770

Recreating Africa culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441 - 1770

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 -- Th...

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1. Verfasser: Sweet, James Hoke (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill u.a. The University of North Carolina Press 2003
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Blacks > Religion > Social conditions > Slavery and the church > History > Catholic Church > Afro-Brazilian cults > Brazil > Civilization > Brasilien > Afrikaner > Sklave > Ritus > Kulturanthropologie > Geschichte 1441-1770
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Quellen- und Literaturverz. S. 265 - 285
Beschreibung:XIV, 296 S.
Ill., Kt.
25 cm
ISBN:0807828084
0-8078-2808-4
0807854824
0-8078-5482-4