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Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (Paperback, New edition)
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Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (Paperback, New edition)
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Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial
Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South
America to Europe. By tracing the steps of this powerful African
healer and vodun priest, James 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. Alvares treated many people across the
Atlantic, yet healing was rarely a simple matter of remedying
illness and disease. Through the language of health and healing,
Alvares also addressed the profound alienation of warfare,
capitalism, and the African slave trade. As a result, he and other
African healers frequently ran afoul of imperial power brokers.
Nevertheless, even the powerful suffered isolation in the Atlantic
world and often turned to African healers for answers. In this way,
healers simultaneously became fierce critics of Atlantic
imperialism and expert translators of it, adapting their
therapeutic strategies in order to secure social relevance and even
power. By tracing Alvares' frequent uprooting and border crossing,
Sweet illuminates how African healing practices evolved in the
diaspora, contesting the social and political hierarchies of
imperialism while also making profound impacts on the intellectual
discourse of the ""modern"" Atlantic world. |By tracing the steps
of Domingos Alvares, a powerful African healer and vodun priest,
James 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.
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