Domingos Alvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world /
Sweet, James H.
Domingos Alvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world / James H. Sweet. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011. - xvii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and index.
Dahomey -- Passages -- Recife -- Rio de Janeiro -- Freedom -- The politics of healing -- Dislocations -- Inquisition -- Algarve -- Obscurity.
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.
Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2012
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Alvares, Domingos, approximately 1710-
Alvares, Domingos, approximately 1710-
Alvares, Domingos, approximately 1710-
Alvares, Domingos 1710-
Geschichte 1727-1750.
1700-1799
Geschichte 1727-1750.
Slaves--Brazil, Northeast--Biography.
Healers--Brazil, Northeast--Biography.
Vodou priests--Brazil, Northeast--Biography.
Healers--Portugal--Biography.
Slave trade--History--Africa, West--18th century.
Inquisition--Portugal.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Witchcraft.
Vodou.
Spiritual Therapies.
Religion and Medicine.
Vodou priests.
Healers.
Inquisition.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Slave trade.
Slaves.
Vodou.
Witchcraft.
Sklavenhandel
Wodu
Heiler
Imperialismus
Geistheilung
Atlantic Ocean Region--History--18th century.
Africa, Western.
Portugal.
Brazil.
West Africa.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Northeast Brazil.
Portugal.
Westafrika
Portugal
Brasilien
Biography.
Biographie.
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Biographies.
HT869.A58 / S84 2011
909/.049607092 B 299.675092
2012 E-116 WZ 100
Domingos Alvares, African healing, and the intellectual history of the Atlantic world / James H. Sweet. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011. - xvii, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-290) and index.
Dahomey -- Passages -- Recife -- Rio de Janeiro -- Freedom -- The politics of healing -- Dislocations -- Inquisition -- Algarve -- Obscurity.
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.
Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2012
9780807834497 0807834491 9781469609751 1469609754
2010032661
GBB1C7662 bnb
101583796 DNLM 015766441 Uk
Alvares, Domingos, approximately 1710-
Alvares, Domingos, approximately 1710-
Alvares, Domingos, approximately 1710-
Alvares, Domingos 1710-
Geschichte 1727-1750.
1700-1799
Geschichte 1727-1750.
Slaves--Brazil, Northeast--Biography.
Healers--Brazil, Northeast--Biography.
Vodou priests--Brazil, Northeast--Biography.
Healers--Portugal--Biography.
Slave trade--History--Africa, West--18th century.
Inquisition--Portugal.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Witchcraft.
Vodou.
Spiritual Therapies.
Religion and Medicine.
Vodou priests.
Healers.
Inquisition.
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric.
Slave trade.
Slaves.
Vodou.
Witchcraft.
Sklavenhandel
Wodu
Heiler
Imperialismus
Geistheilung
Atlantic Ocean Region--History--18th century.
Africa, Western.
Portugal.
Brazil.
West Africa.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Northeast Brazil.
Portugal.
Westafrika
Portugal
Brasilien
Biography.
Biographie.
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Biographies.
HT869.A58 / S84 2011
909/.049607092 B 299.675092
2012 E-116 WZ 100