Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World

by James H. Sweet

Book Overview

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 and healing. In Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, James H. Sweet finds dramatic means for unfolding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469609754
• ISBN13: 9781469609751
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"