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Recreating Africa

by Sweet, James H.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of North Carolina Press, (Chapel Hill :) Physical details: xvi, 296 p. : ill., maps.
Subject(s): Blacks -- Brazil -- Religion. | Blacks -- Brazil -- Social conditions. | Slavery and the church -- Brazil -- History. | Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church -- History. | Afro-Brazilian cults. | Brazil -- Civilization -- African influences. | Electronic books.
Year: 2003
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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 -- Calunds, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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