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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: African ethnobotany in the Americas. New York : Springer, ©2013 (DLC) 2012944256 (OCoLC)733249498 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert A Voeks; John Rashford |
ISBN: | 9781461408369 1461408369 |
OCLC Number: | 811840479 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 429 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
Contents: | Introduction / Robert Voeks and 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, Brian Grabbatin, Cari Goetcheus, and Angela Halfacre -- 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 and 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, Sofie Ruysschaert, Kobeke Van de Putte, and Sara Groenendijk -- Medicinal and 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 Maroon community in Suriname, South America / Bruce Hoffman -- Ethnobotany of Brazil's African diaspora : the role of floristic homogenization / Robert Voeks. |
Series Title: | Springer life sciences. |
Responsibility: | Robert Voeks, John Rashford, editors. |
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From the reviews:"This fascinating book, written by inquisitive authors, should be required reading for ethnoecological scholars. It documents the essential importance of African peoples and plants in the Americas through fruitful methodological syntheses of ethnobotanical and ethnoecological approaches, both diachronic and synchronic." (Eglee L. Zent, Ethnobiology Letters, Vol. 4, October, 2013)"A rich and exciting volume that joins a burgeoning effort to widen the ethnobotanical gaze, embracing the dynamisms of diaspora, migration, and disturbance. ... volume will find great utility among scholars of ethnobotany, per se, but most any reader interested in the human-environment interface will find value in its clear prose and probing of historical discussions. The volume will make an effective course reader for undergraduates in geography, anthropology, and other disciplines, as it provides a compelling window into contemporary research methodologies and approaches." (Case Watkins, The AAG Review of Books, Vol. 1 (4), 2013) Read more...

