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Recreating Africa : Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 by James H. Sweet (2003, Trade Paperback, New Edition)

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Language: English. Number of Pages: 296. Weight: 1 lbs. Publication Date: 2003-09-29. Publisher: University of North Carolina Press.

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Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than 1 million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the cultures of Central Africa from which the slaves came--Ndembu, Imbangala, Kongo, and others--Sweet identifies specific cultural rites and beliefs that survived their transplantation to the African-Portuguese diaspora, arguing that they did not give way to immediate creolization in the New World but remained distinctly African for some time. Slaves transferred many cultural practices from their homelands to Brazil, including kinship structures, divination rituals, judicial ordeals, ritual burials, dietary restrictions, and secret societies. Sweet demonstrates that the structures of many of these practices remained constant during this early period, although the meanings of the rituals were often transformed as slaves coped with their new environment and status. Religious rituals in particular became potent forms of protest against the institution of slavery and its hardships. In addition, Sweet examines how certain African beliefs and customs challenged and ultimately influenced Brazilian Catholicism. Sweet's analysis sheds new light on African culture in Brazil's slave society while also enriching our understanding of the complex process of creolization and cultural survival.

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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807854824
ISBN-13
9780807854822
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2337372

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Book Title
Recreating Africa : Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
Author
James H. Sweet
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
New Edition
Topic
Christian Church / History, Africa / General, Black Studies (Global), Ethnic & Tribal, Latin America / General, Latin America / South America
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Religion, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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9.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
1 Oz

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2003001194 [F]
Edition Description
New Edition
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This book will be a landmark in bringing Africa into the mix in Brazilian history. (John Thornton, author of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800), "A fascinating book . . . of considerable importance. It not only contributes to a continuing debate about the nature of slavery, but is a powerful example of Atlantic history as it shows that the societies on both sides of the South Atlantic lived in a kind of spiritual intimacy that was not severed by the infamous middle passage." —History, "A fascinating book . . . of considerable importance. It not only contributes to a continuing debate about the nature of slavery, but is a powerful example of Atlantic history as it shows that the societies on both sides of the South Atlantic lived in a kind of spiritual intimacy that was not severed by the infamous middle passage." — History, "A fascinating book . . . of considerable importance. It not only contributes to a continuing debate about the nature of slavery, but is a powerful example of Atlantic history as it shows that the societies on both sides of the South Atlantic lived in a kind of spiritual intimacy that was not severed by the infamous middle passage." _ History, Sweet has mined an incredibly rich source of information in the Inquisition archives and produced an engaging study of the inner lives of Africans suffering under slavery in Brazil. His book will be a landmark in bringing Africa into the mix in Brazilian history.(John Thornton, Millersville University, author of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800.), "A fascinating book . . . of considerable importance. It not only contributes to a continuing debate about the nature of slavery, but is a powerful example of Atlantic history as it shows that the societies on both sides of the South Atlantic lived in a kind of spiritual intimacy that was not severed by the infamous middle passage." -- History, Sweet has mined an incredibly rich source of information in the Inquisition archives and produced an engaging study of the inner lives of Africans suffering under slavery in Brazil. His book will be a landmark in bringing Africa into the mix in Brazilian history.(John Thornton, Millersville University, author of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 .), This book will be a landmark in bringing Africa into the mix in Brazilian history. (John Thornton, author of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 )
Copyright Date
2003
Lccn
2003-001194
Dewey Decimal
981.00496
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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