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Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
James H. Sweet
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Paperback. A study of the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil. James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than incipient Brazilians. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 illustrations, 6 tables, 6 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KLSB; 3H; 3J; HBJH; HBJK; HBTB; HBTS; JFC; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than 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. ... Read more
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than 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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807854822
SKU
V9780807854822
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About James H. Sweet
James H. Sweet is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin.
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