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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... slaves grew to the plants they cultivated for their own needs. This in turn draws attention to the significance of African species as a vital logistical support of the transatlantic slave trade and to the agency of enslaved Africans in ...
... enslaved Africans . Reference is to the African plants and food animals that proved instru- mental for European colonization of the New World tropics . The movement of these biota across the Atlantic Ocean to tropical America in the ...
... slaves are deliberately cultivating a multipurpose plant whose properties formed part of their shared ethnobotanical heritage ( Carney and Rosomoff 2009 ) . Enslaved Africans in the Americas were well aware of the diverse uses of the ...
... enslaved Africans in instigating the cultivation of familiar plants in new lands. Over 350 years of the transatlantic slave trade, it took an estimated 30,000 slave voyages to carry the 11 million Africans documented to have landed in ...
... enslaved Africans who initiated their cultivation and to the sites in plantation societies where they established them . Plantation owners and European naturalists in the Americas encountered many novel plants in slave dooryard gardens ...
Contenido
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African Origins of Sesame Cultivation in the Americas | 67 |
Handicrafts and Crafters | 121 |
By the Rivers of Babylon The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom | 122 |
Gathering Buying and Growing Sweetgrass Muhlenbergia sericea Urbanization and Social Networking in the Sweetgrass BasketMaking Industry of ... | 153 |
Medicinal and Spiritual Ethno fl oras | 215 |
TransAtlantic Diaspora Ethnobotany Legacies of West African and Iberian Mediterranean Migration in Central Cuba | 216 |
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 | 309 |
Candomblés Cosmic Tree and Brazils Ficus Species | 310 |
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 |