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Domingos Ãlvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
This book was written by James H. Sweet, this is a Hardcover book in the .
Between 1730 and 1750, powerful healer and vodun priest Domingos Ãlvares 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 Ãlvares, 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.