Ebook: The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
Author: Pablo F. Gómez
- Tags: Traditional medicine -- History -- 17th century -- Caribbean Area, Healing -- History -- 17th century -- Caribbean Area, Experiential learning -- History -- 17th century -- Caribbean Area, Free blacks -- History -- 17th century -- Caribbean Area
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
- Language: English
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"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 Read more...