TY - BOOK AU - Sweet,James H. TI - Recreating Africa: culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 SN - 0807862347 AV - F2659.N4 S94 2003eb U1 - 981/.00496 22 PY - 2003/// KW - Diaspora KW - Musikgruppe KW - gnd KW - Black people KW - Brazil KW - Religion KW - Social conditions KW - Slavery and the church KW - History KW - Catholic Church KW - Afro-Brazilian religions KW - Personnes noires KW - Brésil KW - Conditions sociales KW - Esclavage KW - Aspect religieux KW - Histoire KW - Christianisme KW - Cultes afro-brésiliens KW - HISTORY KW - bisacsh KW - Afro-Brazilian cults KW - fast KW - Civilization KW - African influences KW - Afrikaner KW - Kulturanthropologie KW - Ritus KW - Sklave KW - Sklaverei KW - Verschleppung KW - Katholizismus KW - Sitte KW - Kolonie KW - Afrikanen KW - gtt KW - Portugezen KW - Acculturatie KW - Civilisation KW - Influence africaine KW - Brasilien KW - Portugal KW - Afrika KW - Schwärze N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-285) and index; Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Demography, distribution, and diasporic streams -- Kinship, family, and household formation -- Disease, mortality, and master power -- Part II. African religious responses -- Catholic vs. "other" in the world of believers -- Theory and praxis in the study of African religions -- African divination in the diaspora -- Calundus, curing, and medicine in the colonial world -- Witchcraft, ritual, and resistance in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Part III. Africans and the Catholic Church -- African Catholicism in the Portuguese world -- The impacts of African religious beliefs on Brazilian Catholicism; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011 N2 - Sweet chronicles the lives of African slaves taken by Portuguese traders from Central Africa to Portugal and especially Brazil, one of the main regions of the African diaspora. He finds that slaves transferred their African cultural practices to the New World and that Central African cultural forms penetrated deeply into Brazilian society and the New World UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=114700 ER -