The Experiential Caribbean
Subtitle: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: Apr 17, 2017
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9781469630878
Description: "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: Source title: The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic