Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts,
anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines
the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative,
experientially-based knowledge about the human body and the natural
world during the long seventeenth century. Gomez treats the early
modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free
Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as it relates
to well-known frameworks for the study of science and medicine.
Drawing on an array of governmental and ecclesiastical
sources-notably Inquisition records-Gomez highlights more than one
hundred black ritual practitioners regarded as masters of healing
practices and as social and spiritual leaders. He shows how they
developed evidence-based healing principles based on sensorial
experience rather than on dogma. He elucidates how they nourished
ideas about the universality of human bodies, which contributed to
the rise of empirical testing of disease origins and cures. Both
colonial authorities and Caribbean people of all conditions viewed
this experiential knowledge as powerful and competitive. In some
ways, it served to respond to the ills of slavery. Even more
crucial, however, it demonstrates how the black Atlantic helped
creatively to fashion the early modern world.
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