(Ebook) Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World by Sweet, James H. ISBN 9781469609751, 9780807834497, 9781469606392, 9780807878040, 1469609754, 0807834491, 1469606399, 0807878049

(Ebook) Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World by Sweet, James H. ISBN 9781469609751, 9780807834497, 9781469606392, 9780807878040, 1469609754, 0807834491, 1469606399, 0807878049

Alvares treated many people across the Atlantic, yet healing was rarely a simple matter of remedying illness and disease. Through the language of health and healing, Alvares also addressed the profound alienation of warfare, capitalism, and the African slave trade. As a result, he and other African healers frequently ran afoul of imperial power brokers. Nevertheless, even the powerful suffered isolation in the Atlantic world and often turned to African healers for answers. In this way, healers simultaneously became fierce critics of Atlantic imperialism and expert translators of it, adapting their therapeutic strategies in order to secure social relevance and even power. By tracing Alvares' frequent uprooting and border crossing, Sweet illuminates how African healing practices evolved in the diaspora, contesting the social and political hierarchies of imperialism while also making profound impacts on the intellectual discourse of the "modern" Atlantic world.