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Recreating Africa

Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441–1770

by James H. Sweet

A study of how Central and West Africans in Brazil and Portugal preserved and adapted African religious ideas under slavery. Sweet draws on Inquisition trials to discuss divination, healing, spirit possession and protective objects such as mandinga pouches.

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