TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sweet,James H.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Recreating Africa: culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 
AV  - F2659.N4 S94 2003eb
U1  - 981/.00496 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Religion
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Slavery and the church
KW  - History
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Afro-Brazilian cults
KW  - Civilization
KW  - African influences
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index; 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 -- Calunds, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10064770
ER  -