Diseases of Africans, an African disease
Transformations of quijila between Central West Africa and Minas Gerais, in Brazil, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3072385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Júnia Ferreira Furtado (0000-0001-6754-6460, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil; Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brasil, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/s0104-59702023000100052en |
| OpenAlex | W4387875668 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This article discusses the origin of quijila/kijila in Central West African culture, more particularly in the cultural universe of the Imbangala (Jaga) and the Ambundu and Kimbundu populations who lived in the Portuguese regions of Angola and the Congo in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Following this, it investigates how the concept of quijila was structured, comprehended, and transformed, both in Africa, where it was basically a food prohibition, but whose applications and meanings varied; and in Brazil, to where it was transported in the 1700s, and where it transformed into a disease which attacked blacks, especially Africans of various origins, being framed as such in the Hippocratic-Galen universe characteristic of that time
Ancient history · Ethnology · Geography · Hippocratic Oath · Linguistics · Political science · Portuguese · Sociology · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |