Domingos álvares, african healing, and the intellectual history of the atlantic world

Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe--addressing the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade through the language of health...

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Main Author: hoopla digital
Format: EBOOK
Language:ENGLISH
Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2011
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