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.
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... coast, the diffusion of AfricanAmerican winnowing baskets followed suit. By the twentieth century, with the demand for agricultural “work” baskets in sharp decline, basket makers focused on producing the sweet grass “show” baskets that ...
... coast. By 1448, about a 1,000 slaves had been carried back by sea to Portugal and its colonies in the Atlantic islands (Madeira, Azores). Table 2.1 African plants mentioned in historical records of plantation 14 J. Carney.
... Coast, and in local markets (Carney and Rosomoff 2009). The region from Senegal to Liberia, known during the slave trade as the Upper Guinea Coast, provided indigenous cereals such as millet (Pennisetum glaucum), sorghum (Sorghum ...
... coast where the hair sheep breed was transported to the English colony: “[They] are brought from Guinny and Binny, and those have hair growing on them, instead of wool; and liker goats than sheep” (Ligon 1970, 59). African cattle also ...
... coastal desert. These camels did not arrive in the New World directly from Arabia but came from West Africa and the Atlantic islands offshore Senegambia. The English followed Spanish precedent, relying upon camels as transport animals ...
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Did Enslaved Africans Spark South Carolinas EighteenthCentury Rice Boom? | 35 |
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 |