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 / James H. Sweet.

Sweet chronicles the lives of African slaves taken by Portuguese traders from Central Africa to Portugal and especially Brazil, one of the main regions of the African diaspora. He finds that slaves transferred their African cultural practices to the New World and that Central African cultural forms...

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Main Author: Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003.
©2003
Subjects:
Diaspora > Musikgruppe
Black people > Brazil > Religion.
Black people > Brazil > Social conditions.
Slavery and the church > Brazil > History.
Slavery and the church > Catholic Church > History.
Afro-Brazilian religions.
Slavery and the church > History.
HISTORY.
Afro-Brazilian cults
Black people > Religion
Black people > Social conditions
Civilization > African influences
Slavery and the church
Slavery and the church > Catholic Church
Afrikaner
Kulturanthropologie
Religion
Ritus
Sklave
Sklaverei
Verschleppung
Katholizismus
Sitte
Kolonie
Afrikanen.
Portugezen.
Acculturatie.
Brazil > Civilization > African influences.
Brazil
Brasilien
Portugal
Afrika
Schwärze
History
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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
  • 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.

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