The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic / Pablo F. Gómez.
By: Gómez, Pablo F [author.].
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BookPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, c2017Description: xix, 291 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781469630861 (cased) :.Subject(s): Traditional medicine -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 17th century | Healing -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 17th century | Experiential learning -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 17th century | Free blacks -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 17th centuryDDC classification: 615.509 729 | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Roseau Public Library West Indian Collection | Reference | W.I. 615.509 729 Gom (Browse shelf) | Available | ROSE18066080 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Arrivals -- Landscapes -- Movement -- Sensual knowledge -- Social pharmacopeias -- Astounding creativity -- Truth and the experiential.
"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"--
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