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  • Recreating Africa = culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 /
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    Title/Author: Recreating Africa/ James H. Sweet.
    Reminder of title: culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 /
    Author: Sweet, James H.
    Published: Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press, : c2003.,
    Description: xiv, 296 p. :ill., maps ;25 cm.
    [NT 15003449]: 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.
    Subject: Afro-Brazilian cults. -
    Subject: Brazil - Civilization -
    Online resource: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=114700An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
    ISBN: 0807862347 (electronic bk.)
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