Description: Further DetailsTitle: Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic WorldCondition: NewEAN: 9781469609751ISBN: 9781469609751Publisher: The University of North Carolina PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/08/2013Description: Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African healer and vodun priest, James 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. Alvares treated many people across the Atlantic, yet healing was rarely a simple matter of remedying illness and disease. Through the language of health and healing, Alvares also addressed the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade. As a result, he and other African healers frequently ran afoul of imperial power brokers. Nevertheless, even the powerful suffered isolation in the Atlantic world and often turned to African healers for answers. In this way, healers simultaneously became fierce critics of Atlantic imperialism and expert translators of it, adapting their therapeutic strategies in order to secure social relevance and even power. By tracing Alvares' frequent uprooting and border crossing, Sweet illuminates how African healing practices evolved in the diaspora, contesting the social and political hierarchies of imperialism while also making profound impacts on the intellectual discourse of the ""modern"" Atlantic world. By tracing the steps of Domingos Alvares, a powerful African healer and vodun priest, James 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: James H. SweetGenre: HistoryTopic: BiographyRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History o
Publication Name: Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History o
Title: Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History o
EAN: 9781469609751
ISBN: 9781469609751
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
Release Year: 2013
Release Date: 01/08/2013
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 156mm
Author: James H. Sweet
Genre: History
Topic: Biography
