كتاب
African ethnobotany in the Americas
| العنوان: | African ethnobotany in the Americas |
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| المساهمون: | Voeks, Robert A., 1950-, Rashford, John., Society for Economic Botany (U.S.). Meeting (50th : 2009 : Charleston, S.C.) |
| بيانات النشر: | New York : Springer, c2013. |
| سنة النشر: | 2013 |
| وصف مادي: | xii, 429 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 23 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Life sciences Springer life sciences. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Plants, Medicinal., Plants, Edible., African Continental Ancestry Group., Ethnobotany., Blacks -- Ethnobotany -- America -- History., Blacks -- Ethnobotany -- Africa -- History., Slaves -- America -- History., Ethnobotany -- America -- History., Ethnobotany -- Africa -- History., Plants, Edible -- America -- History., Plants, Edible -- Africa -- History., Medicinal plants -- America -- History., Medicinal plants -- Africa -- History., Life sciences., Biochemistry., Botany., Plant anatomy., Plant breeding., Plant physiology., History. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | Americas., America -- Civilization -- African influences., Americas |
| الوصف: | 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. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Introduction / Robert Voeks, John Rashford -- Seeds of memory : botanical legacies of the African diaspora / Judith Carney -- Did enslaved Africans spark South Carolina's eighteenth-century rice boom? / Stanley B. Alpern -- African origins of sesame cultivation in the Americas / Dorothea Bedigian -- By the rivers of Babylon : the Lowcountry basket in slavery and freedom / Dale Rosengarten -- Gathering, buying, and growing sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sericea) : urbanization and social networking in the sweetgrass basket-making industry of Lowcountry South Carolina / Patrick T. Hurley ... [et al.] -- Marketing, culture, and conservation value of NTFPs : case study of Afro-Ecuadorian use of piquigua, Heteropsis ecuadorensis (Araceae) / Maria Fadiman --Berimbau de barriga : musical ethnobotany of the Afro-Brazilian diaspora / James Sera, Robert Voeks -- Trans-Atlantic diaspora ethnobotany : legacies of West African and Iberian Mediterranean migration in Central Cuba / Erica S. Moret -- What makes a plant magical? Symbolism and sacred herbs in Afro-Surinamese Winti rituals / Tinde van Andel ... [et al.] -- Medicinal cooling teas of Barbados / Sonia Peter -- Candomblé's cosmic tree and Brazil's Ficus species / John Rashford -- Exploring biocultural contexts : comparative woody plant knowledge of an indigenous and Afro-American maroom community in Suriname, South America / Bruce Hoffman -- Ethnobotany of Brazil's African diaspora : the role of floristic homogenization / Roberto Voeks. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn733249498 E29.N3 A37 2013 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-4614-0835-2 1-4614-0835-0 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Some contributions presented at the 50th Annual Society for Economic Botany Meeting Symposium held in 2009 in Charleston, South Carolina. Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.013349772.0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
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