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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... Collection at the College of Charleston Library. In collaboration with McKissick Museum, she curated the exhibition A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life (2002) and, with her husband, Theodore Rosengarten ...
... Collections, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA Sofie Ruysschaert, M.Sc. Laboratory of Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture and Ethnobotany, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium James Sera, Ph.D ... collection xii Contributors.
... collection is offered as a small contribution to filling this gap. It presents various aspects of the botanical legacy of Africans who played a significant part in the making of the modern world (Thornton 1992). Rooted in European ...
... collected and stored in local and international herbaria, except in the case of religiously or legally protected species. Each contribution was peer-reviewed by the editors and by at least one additional specialist (the efforts of which ...
... collection habitats by suburban expansion. They discover that collecting has expanded from a primarily local activity to a regional one, and that in spite of 1Van Andel's (2010) recent discovery O. glaberrima being cultivated by Afro ...
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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 |