Title Recreating Africa : culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / James H. Sweet

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) : illustrations, maps 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 Summary 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 penetrated deeply into Brazilian society and the New World Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Diaspora Musikgruppe gnd Subject Black people -- Brazil -- Religion Black people -- Brazil -- Social conditions Slavery and the church -- Brazil -- History Slavery and the church -- Catholic Church -- History Afro-Brazilian cults. 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. SUBJECT Brazil -- Civilization -- African influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016523 Subject Brazil Brasilien Portugal Afrika Schwärze Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2003001194 ISBN 0807862347 9780807862346

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