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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... indigenous food crops, including rice (Oryza glaberrima) and eggplant (NRC 1996, 2006; Carney 2001). Fig. 2.2 Image entitled El Encuentro de Cortes y Moctezuma. Food Grown in Africa as a Vital Support of the Atlantic Slave Trade Fig. 2.3 ...
... indigenous African foodstaples (such as millet, rice, blackeyed pea, and melegueta pepper). Captains of slave ships purchased foodstaples in bulk, frequently revealing a distinct preference for traditional African dietary staples ...
... indigenous n'dama breed) in their canoes to waiting slave ships (Fig. 2.3) (Barbot 1752, 99). The image, with its implication of African cattle transfers to the New World, corroborates the findings of recent genetic studies. This ...
... indigenous Guanche people in the fifteenth century, they raided the nearby African mainland (today's Morocco and Spanish Sahara, just 100 km away) for camels, cattle, sheep, goats, and slaves (Rumeo de Armas 1956, 115). Indeed, the ...
... indigenous African plants in tropical America. Captains of slave ships certainly recognized the immediate value of stocking African dietary preferences as victuals for the Atlantic crossing and as medicines to maximize the survival of ...
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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 |