Black knowledge on the move: African diasporic healing in Caribbean and Pacific New Granada

Bethan R Fisk*

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Abstract

This article examines African diasporic healing, poisoning and ritual practice as captured in criminal and ecclesiastical trials and accusations, demonstrating how Black healers constructed their knowledge in the Caribbean and Pacific regions of New Granada. Through a connective and comparative approach, it argues that mobility played a central role in the constant creation and recirculation of African-descended healing knowledge in seemingly distinct spaces of the diaspora.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to) 244-270
Number of pages27
JournalAtlantic Studies
Volume18
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Oct 2020

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Natalie Zemon Davis Fellowship, the Robert Craig Brown Travelling Fellowship, and the University of Toronto New College Senior Doctoral Fellowship in Caribbean Studies. The author would like to thank Manuel Barcia, Yesenia Barragan, Sherwin Bryant, Laura Correa Ochoa, Pablo G?mez, Chloe Ireton, Melanie Newton, ?ngela P?rez-Villa, Jonathan Saha, Lindsay Sidders, Ren?e Soulodre-La France, Tamara Walker, and Natalie Zemon Davis for discussions and comments on earlier versions of the paper and the external reviewers for their generative and thorough suggestions. Particular thanks to the organisers and participants of the May 2016 Mark Claster Mamolen Dissertation Workshop on Afro-Latin American Studies, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University and the ?Black Geographies: Quito, New Granada and the Pacific lowlands? Andean Cultures and Working Group Workshop at Northwestern University in October 2017 where part of the research was shared.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

  • Healing
  • slavery
  • Colombia
  • mobilities
  • Pacific
  • New Granada
  • knowledge production

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