Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 /
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2003.
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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.
