African Ethnobotany in the AmericasRobert Voeks, John Rashford Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 M09 25 - 429 páginas African Ethnobotany in the Americas provides the first comprehensive examination of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among the African Diaspora in the Americas. Leading scholars on the subject explore the complex relationship between plant use and meaning among the descendants of Africans in the New World. With the aid of archival and field research carried out in North America, South America, and the Caribbean, contributors explore the historical, environmental, and political-ecological factors that facilitated/hindered transatlantic ethnobotanical diffusion; the role of Africans as active agents of plant and plant knowledge transfer during the period of plantation slavery in the Americas; the significance of cultural resistance in refining and redefining plant-based traditions; the principal categories of plant use that resulted; the exchange of knowledge among Amerindian, European and other African peoples; and the changing significance of African-American ethnobotanical traditions in the 21st century.
Bolstered by abundant visual content and contributions from renowned experts in the field, African Ethnobotany in the Americas is an invaluable resource for students, scientists, and researchers in the field of ethnobotany and African Diaspora studies. |
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... Portuguese diverted the slave trade to direct importation from places their caravels reached along the African coast. By 1448, about a 1,000 slaves had been carried back by sea to Portugal and its colonies in the Atlantic islands ...
... Portuguese as a teenager, and taken to Hispaniola in 1503. He was part of the contingent that landed in Veracruz, Mexico with Cortés and his army in 1519. The anonymous figure depicted in Fig. 2.2 may have been Garrido or another ...
... Portuguese name for the guinea fowl, galinha d'Angola, and averred its African provenance (Marcgrave 1942, 192; Donkin 1991, 97). The guinea fowl formed a significant component of the small animal stock that some plantation slaves were ...
... Portuguese and French slave routes from West Africa (Cymbron et al. 1999; Magee et al. 2002; Lirón et al. 2006; Carney and Rosomoff 2009; Ginja et al. 2009). Transport animals, such as donkeys (native to Africa) and camels, were also ...
... Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English languages by the place name “guinea,” the name slave. Slave. Agency. in. Instigating. the. Cultivation. of. African. Foodstaples. 27 2 Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora ...
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African Origins of Sesame Cultivation in the Americas | 67 |
Handicrafts and Crafters | 122 |
By the Rivers of Babylon The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom | 123 |
Gathering Buying and Growing Sweetgrass Muhlenbergia sericea Urbanization and Social Networking in the Sweetgrass BasketMaking Industry of ... | 153 |
Medicinal and Spiritual Ethno fl oras | 216 |
TransAtlantic Diaspora Ethnobotany Legacies of West African and Iberian Mediterranean Migration in Central Cuba | 217 |
What Makes a Plant Magical? Symbolism and Sacred Herbs in AfroSurinamese Winti Rituals | 247 |
Medicinal and Cooling Teas of Barbados | 285 |
Ethnobotanical Continuity and Change | 310 |
Candomblés Cosmic Tree and Brazils Ficus Species | 311 |
Exploring Biocultural Contexts Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and AfroAmerican Maroon Community in Suriname South ... | 335 |
Ethnobotany of Brazils African Diaspora The Role of Floristic Homogenization | 394 |
Marketing Culture and Conservation Value of NTFPs Case Study of AfroEcuadorian Use of Piquigua Heteropsis ecuadorensis Araceae | 175 |
Berimbau de barriga Musical Ethnobotany of the AfroBrazilian Diaspora | 195 |