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

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.

ISBN-13: 9781469609751

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

Publication Date: 08-01-2013

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Sweet, James H.: - James H. Sweet is Vilas-Jartz Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. His book Recreating Africa won the American Historical Association's 2004 Wesley Logan prize for the best book on the history of the African diaspora.