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Creator
Date
[2017]
Location
Chapel Hill
North Carolina
North Carolina
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xix, 291 pages
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 352365
Folger call number: GR120 .G65 2017
Folger holdings ID: 500991
Folger call number: GR120 .G65 2017
Folger holdings ID: 500991
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"--
Notes
General notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-266) and index
Contents
Introduction -- Arrivals -- Landscapes -- Movement -- Sensual knowledge -- Social pharmacopeias -- Astounding creativity -- Truth and the experiential -- Conclusion
Also known as
Extended title: The experiential Caribbean : creating knowledge and healing in the early modern Atlantic / Pablo F. Gómez
Related names
author: Gómez, Pablo F.