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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... European navigators first encountered them, Columbian Exchange scholars unwittingly depreciate African botanical contributions to global plant transfers. Such views inadvertently perpetuate the misperception of Africa as a continent ...
... European vessels deliberately transported African livestock to tropical America since the animals were better adapted to the climate than their European counterparts. The African “hair” sheep did not have the woolly coat that made the ...
... European observers (Grimé 1979; Kimber 1988; Kupperman 1993; Watts 2000). One of them was Samuel Hazard, who traveled to Cuba in 1871, when slavery was still legal. Hazard noted that the castor bean “grows in great quantities all over ...
... European commercial objectives do not alone offer a satisfactory explanation for the establishment of indigenous African plants in tropical America. Captains of slave ships certainly recognized the immediate value of stocking African ...
... Europeans. The entire success of a slaving voyage, which might last several weeks or months, depended vitally on an adequate food supply to keep the captives alive en route. Although Amerindian maize and bitter manioc grown in Africa ...
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Did Enslaved Africans Spark South Carolinas EighteenthCentury Rice Boom? | 35 |
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 |