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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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Book/TextUse in library JFE 17-9416Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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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"--
Subjects
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
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