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

Author/Contributor(s):	Sweet, James H
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	08/01/2013
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

By tracing the steps of Domingos Álvares, 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.