Recreating Africa [electronic resource] : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet.
Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.Description: xvi, 296 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 0807828084 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807854824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0807862347
- 981/.00496 21
- F2659.N4 S94 2003eb
eBooks
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.