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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 a history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world in which healing, religion, kinship, and political subversion were intimately connected.
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; 1st New edition edition (August 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1469609754
ISBN-13: 978-1469609751
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.9 x 9.1 inches
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Fantastic book for tracing the impact of the Atlantic world through the life of one man. One critique is Sweet's extensive speculation regarding Domingos' inner thoughts or feelings. Overall though, this was a very interesting book and engaging read.
This book brought to light some of the answers to questions which I have wondered about in regard to the enslavement by a world of their own people. I knew that politics and power were involved on all fronts, and now some of the why's have been answered. The connection of what I saw as completely diverse religious beliefs between Africa and the Christian world is explained in this book and the depth of African culture and its incredible strength of its religious bonds of community and unity come to light in this text.
A must read for any modern day reader or "healer" and scholars of divination and the middle passage/Maafa.
An excellent, informative work as well as a real 'page turner'. I highly recommend it.
THANK YOU SOME HISTORY OF TRADIONAL AFRICAN HEALERS ,PRIMARY SOURCE!
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