Kalle Kananoja
Biographic Data
| ID | 505679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kalle Kananoja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kalle |
| FAMILY NAME | Kananoja |
| SIGNATURE | KANANOJA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8301-0372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa
In this ambitious analysis of medical encounters in Central and West Africa during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, Kalle Kananoja focuses on African and European perceptions of health, disease and healing. Arguing that the period was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange, he shows that indigenous natural medicine was used by locals and non-Africans alike. The mobility and circulation of healing techniques and materials was an import…
Literacy and healers’ tactics in Finnish folk medicine, 1850–1950
Folk medicine inevitably declined and was pushed into the margins with the spread of literacy and the proliferation of modern, scientific biomedicine. However, it remained the primary route to health in peripheral regions of Europe, such as rural Finland, well into the twentieth century. The spread of literacy affected folk medicine in ways that enhanced many folk practitioners’ healing resources. Drawing on newspaper articles, reports by medical…
Orjuus ja Ruotsin siirtomaahistoria Karibialla
Arvosteltu teos: Orjia ja isäntiä : ruotsalais-suomalainen siirtomaaherruus Karibialla / Jouko Aaltonen & Seppo Sivonen. Helsinki : Into, 2019
Melancholy, Race and Slavery in the Early Modern Southern Atlantic World
Infected by the Devil, Cured by Calundu
African slaves played a key role in the colonization of Minas Gerais in the interior of Brazil during the eighteenth century. Popular healers from Africa and of African descent were important providers of health care in the region during the colonial period. Relying on a variety of healing practices, their activities often came under the scrutiny of religious authorities as they were denounced to the commissioners of the Inquisition of Lisbon or …
African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry." Slavery & Abolition, 34(4), pp. 686–687
Pai Caetano Angola, Afro-Brazilian Magico-Religious Practices, and Cultural Resistance in Minas Gerais in the Late Eighteenth Century
West Central Africans held a prominent place in the slave society of Minas Gerais, making significant contributions to the cultural development of mineiro society during the second half of the eighteenth century. This article traces the lengthy career of the Central African healer-diviner, Caetano Angola, known to his clients initially as Francisco, and ultimately as Pai Caetano. The magico-religious activities of this religious specialist were d…
Pai Caetano Angola, Afro-Brazilian Magico-Religious Practices, and Cultural Resistance in Minas Gerais in the Late Eighteenth Century
West Central Africans held a prominent place in the slave society of Minas Gerais, making significant contributions to the cultural development of mineiro society during the second half of the eighteenth century. This article traces the lengthy career of the Central African healer-diviner, Caetano Angola, known to his clients initially as Francisco, and ultimately as Pai Caetano. The magico-religious activities of this religious specialist were d…
African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry." Slavery & Abolition, 34(4), pp. 686–687
Pai Caetano Angola, Afro-Brazilian Magico-Religious Practices, and Cultural Resistance in Minas Gerais in the Late Eighteenth Century
West Central Africans held a prominent place in the slave society of Minas Gerais, making significant contributions to the cultural development of mineiro society during the second half of the eighteenth century. This article traces the lengthy career of the Central African healer-diviner, Caetano Angola, known to his clients initially as Francisco, and ultimately as Pai Caetano. The magico-religious activities of this religious specialist were d…
Infected by the Devil, Cured by Calundu
African slaves played a key role in the colonization of Minas Gerais in the interior of Brazil during the eighteenth century. Popular healers from Africa and of African descent were important providers of health care in the region during the colonial period. Relying on a variety of healing practices, their activities often came under the scrutiny of religious authorities as they were denounced to the commissioners of the Inquisition of Lisbon or …
Melancholy, Race and Slavery in the Early Modern Southern Atlantic World
Orjuus ja Ruotsin siirtomaahistoria Karibialla
Arvosteltu teos: Orjia ja isäntiä : ruotsalais-suomalainen siirtomaaherruus Karibialla / Jouko Aaltonen & Seppo Sivonen. Helsinki : Into, 2019
Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa
In this ambitious analysis of medical encounters in Central and West Africa during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, Kalle Kananoja focuses on African and European perceptions of health, disease and healing. Arguing that the period was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange, he shows that indigenous natural medicine was used by locals and non-Africans alike. The mobility and circulation of healing techniques and materials was an import…
Literacy and healers’ tactics in Finnish folk medicine, 1850–1950
Folk medicine inevitably declined and was pushed into the margins with the spread of literacy and the proliferation of modern, scientific biomedicine. However, it remained the primary route to health in peripheral regions of Europe, such as rural Finland, well into the twentieth century. The spread of literacy affected folk medicine in ways that enhanced many folk practitioners’ healing resources. Drawing on newspaper articles, reports by medical…
History (6 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Atlantic World (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works)