Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770
- Africa;
- Latin America and the Caribbean;
- Migration
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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, 1997 IDRF Fellow James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as 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. Buy from Amazon.
Published: University of North Carolina Press, 2003
ISBN: 978-0807854822
Citation: Sweet, James H., Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
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