Bodies of encounter: health, illness and death in the early modern African-Spanish Caribbean.

This dissertation explores African ideas and practices related to bodies, health, illness and death in the early modern Spanish Caribbean. African healing traditions were an essential part of the imagination of bodies, health, illness, and death espoused by the early modern inhabitants of the Iberia...

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Main Author: Gomez Zuluaga, Pablo Fernando
Other Authors: Steve A. Wernke
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2010
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-06072010-102618/