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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... (Eltis and Richardson 2008: 9, 43, www.slavevoyages.org/tast/database/index.faces). It therefore came as a surprise, to me at least, to learn that Eltis and Richardson, along with Philip Morgan, a noted historian of American slavery, had ...
... Eltis, Morgan, and Richardson acknowledge the early presence of rice along the West African coast but try to play it down. “Even in...coastal Guinea-Conakry and Guinea-Bissau...,” they aver, “which are usually assumed to be ...
... (Eltis et al. 2007: 1345–1346). Moreover, their evidence is debatable. It is based on the testimony, probably dating to 1612–1613, of Portuguese missionary Manuel Álvares, who was stationed in Sierra Leone and was clearly no expert on ...
... (Eltis and Richardson 2008: 40–41), and their slave menu from Congo/ Angola often featured cassava meal or flour. Another very common provision was broad or horse beans [Viciafaba L.] from Europe.) São Tiago may have been supplying rice ...
... Eltis, Morgan, and Richardson cite sorghum (EMR 2007: 1356 n. 58) as an example of an African domesticate that “did not take off as an Atlantic crop” because, though slaves knew all about it, Euro-American entrepreneurs were not ...
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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 |