Public Healing in the African Atlantic

Untold Histories of the Atlantic World · Jun 2, 2021 · 19m

In this episode, I present a comparative analysis of the narrative and methodological approaches employed by two prominent historians in their study of African public healing and intellectual history in the Iberian Atlantic. I will focus on James Sweet’s book titled, "Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World" and Pablo Gomez’s "The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic." Both authors study individual African ritual practitioners to learn about how Black Caribbeans thought about and experienced their…