"In this paper the process of creolisation will be considered through analysis of the wills and testaments of African, black and mixed-race women in nineteenth-century Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. As primary sources these will and testaments provide evidence concerning material, social and cultural markers of creolisation." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR];
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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360 p, Traces development of the churches from the monopolistic state-church of the Spanish empire through the arrival of Protestant colonies w/ their 'planters' church' & missions to the African slaves before Emancipation & the freed people afterward. (Amazon)
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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240 p, Contents: 1. The dialectics of healing power -- 2. Metropolitan medicine and strategies of rule -- 3. Biomedicine in Jeanty -- 4. Medicalization and illness experience: two case-studies -- 5. The Catholic practice of healing -- 6. Houngan and the limits of Catholic morality -- 7. Religious healing and the fragmentation of rural life -- 8. Conclusion
