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The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic
- Title
- The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic / Pablo F. Gómez.
- Author
- Gómez, Pablo F.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- xix, 291 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Pablo F. Gómez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body, healing, and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gómez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as justified by how it relates to well known frameworks for the study of science and medicine"--
- Subject
- 1600-1699
- Traditional medicine > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century
- Healing > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century
- Experiential learning > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century
- Free Black people > Caribbean Area > History > 17th century
- Experiential learning
- Free Black people
- Healing
- Traditional medicine
- Schwarze
- Volksmedizin
- Caribbean Area
- Karibik
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Cover title.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-266) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Arrivals -- Landscapes -- Movement -- Sensual knowledge -- Social pharmacopeias -- Astounding creativity -- Truth and the experiential -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-9416
- ISBN
- 9781469630861
- 1469630869
- 9781469630878
- 1469630877
- LCCN
- 2016031011
- OCLC
- 953363745
- Author
- Gómez, Pablo F., author.
- Title
- The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic / Pablo F. Gómez.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-266) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1699
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-9416