The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic

Author/Contributor(s):	Gomez, Pablo F
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	04/17/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Pablo F. Gâomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body, healing, and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gâomez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as justified by how it relates to well known frameworks for the study of science and medicine"--