The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic

by Pablo F. Gómez

Book Overview

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gomez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469630877
• ISBN13: 9781469630878
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"