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. |
Dentro del libro
Robert Voeks, John Rashford. Table 2.1 African plants mentioned in historical records of plantation societies of tropical America Common names Species names Cereals Millet Sorghum Rice Tubers Yams Plantain/banana Taro/eddo Legumes Black ...
... plantation societies is the guinea fowl (Numida meleagris). A Jesuit priest claimed that the guinea fowl arrived on ships that carried the first boatloads of African slaves to Hispaniola. The African “chicken” was a well-established ...
... plantation development. Camels are pictured, with their enslaved African tender, on Ligon's map, which dates to 1647 (Fig. 2.4) (Ligon 1970). Camels had formed an important component of livestock. Fig. 2.3 Barbot (1752, vol. V, Plate E ...
... plantation economy on Providence Island the next century. Documents from the seventeenth century also indicate its presence in the Leeward Islands, Barbados, and Martinique (Piso 1957; Kupperman 1993; Watts 2000). Geographer David Watts ...
... plantation societies, and broad curative properties attracted the commentary of many European observers (Grimé 1979 ... plantation commodities. In eighteenth-century Saint Domingue, plantations Fig. 2.8 Woman sorting castor beans (Samuel ...
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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 |