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LEADER: 01964cam a2200325 a 4500
001 2003001194
003 DLC
005 20070411080317.0
008 030116s2003 ncuab b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2003001194
020 $a0807828084 (alk. paper)
020 $a0807854824 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aF2659.N4$bS94 2003
082 00 $a981/.00496$221
100 1 $aSweet, James H.$q(James Hoke)
245 10 $aRecreating Africa :$bculture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 /$cJames H. Sweet.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$cc2003.
300 $axiv, 296 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-285) and index.
505 0 $aPart 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 -- Calundus, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church -- African Catholicism in the Portuguese world -- The impacts of African religious beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism.
650 0 $aBlacks$zBrazil$xReligion.
650 0 $aBlacks$zBrazil$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aSlavery and the church$zBrazil$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlavery and the church$xCatholic Church$xHistory.
650 0 $aAfro-Brazilian cults.
651 0 $aBrazil$xCivilization$xAfrican influences.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0708/2003001194.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/unc041/2003001194.html