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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... Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. Printed by the author, London Spary EC (2000) Utopia's garden: French natural ...
... Barbados, and Jamaica. Marcgraf noted its arrival in Brazil via ships from western Africa. He also recorded the seventeenth-century Portuguese names for the hair sheep: carneiro de Guiné and carneiro d'Angola (Marcgrave 1942, 234) ...
... Barbados and sketched it in his seventeenth-century map of the island (Ligon 1970). The Spanish initiated the practice of using camels in sixteenth-century Peru as pack animals to carry heavy loads from the mountains and across the ...
... Barbados and Saint Domingue (Crosby 1972; Mercer 1973; McClellan 1992). African livestock were accompanied across the Atlantic by the indigenous grasses that were their natural fodder. Five African forage species arrived in this way ...
... Barbados, and Martinique (Piso 1957; Kupperman 1993; Watts 2000). Geographer David Watts called it a major agent of environmental change in the early settlement history of the West Indies (c. 1624–1645) (Watts 1987, 169). Albert Eckhout ...
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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 |