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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... gardens, and how many of these taxa were initially disdained by plantation owners as “slave food.” This wall of culinary segregation gradually disintegrated as signature ingredients of the African diaspora ― 4 R. Voeks and J. Rashford.
... garden: French natural history from old regime to revolution. University of Chicago Press, Chicago Thornton J (1992) Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400–1800. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Ticktin T ...
... gardens and food fields. Keywords Columbian Exchange • African diaspora • Slavery • Subsistence • Food animals • Culinary signatures Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora The decades following 1492 launched an era ...
... gardens , scientific societies , and museums . With the plant and animal species that accompanied them , European settlers transformed the environments of Australia , New Zealand , and South Africa into , in Crosby's words , Neo ...
... millet Black beniseed Sesame: leaves Beniseed African eggplant/garden Bitter tomato Nightshade Sorghum/guinea corn (continued) Source: Harlan ( 1975 ) , 71–72 and MacNeish (. 2 Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora 17.
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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 |