Sweet, James Hoke, <br/><br/>
Recreating Africa :  culture, kinship, and religion in the African-Portuguese world, 1441-1770 / 
James H. Sweet. 
 - xiv, 296 páginas :  ilustraciones, mapas. 
<br/><br/>Incluye bibliografía (p. 265-285). 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0807828084 0807854824 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Esclavitud e Iglesia--Iglesia Católica--Historia.<br/>Esclavitud e Iglesia--Historia.--Brasil<br/>Negros--Condiciones sociales.--Brasil<br/>Negros--Religión.--Brasil
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Brasil--Civilización--Influencia africana.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>981.00496  / S974r 2003