Umfang:
Online-Ressource (XII, 429 p. 105 illus., 69 illus. in color, digital)
ISBN:
9781461408369
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1283640163
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9781283640169
Serie:
SpringerLink
Inhalt:
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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Chapter 1: Introduction; Objectives and Overview; References; Part1: Crops and Cultivators; Chapter 2: Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora; Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora; Food Grown in Africa as a Vital Support of the Atlantic Slave Trade; African Animal Introductions and Forage Grasses; The African Castor Bean: Contrasting Signi fi cance for Slaveholders and Slaves; Slave Agency in Instigating the Cultivation of African Foodstaples; Conclusion; References
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Chapter 3: Did Enslaved Africans Spark South Carolina's Eighteenth-Century Rice Boom?Introduction; Oryza glaberrima; Oryza sativa; Columbian Exchange; Lowcountry Slave Role; African/American Parallels; Rice Growing; "Drivers"; Rice Processing; Cooking; Other Skills; Gullah Subculture; Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: African Origins of Sesame Cultivation in the Americas; Introduction and Objectives of the Study; Methodology and Sources; Distinguishing Crop Domestication from Cultivation; Earliest Record of Sesame in Africa; Roman Era
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Earliest Historical Report About Sesame Cultivation in AfricaSesame Cultivation in Africa: Earliest Travelers' Accounts; Early African Names of Sesame and Their Sources; Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Sesame in the Americas Retains African Practices and African Names; Registry of Historical Accounts About Sesame in the Americas; United States; Brazil; French Guiana; Jamaica; Trinidad; Sesamum and Ceratotheca : Closely Linked Species with Interchangeable Use of Their Slimy Leaves and Oily Seeds; Mucilaginous Leaves Used as Medicine
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Linguistic Residues: Alternative African Loan Words Suggest Independent Origins in Transfer of African Names with SesameBenne; Reference to Benne in the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED); Vanglo; Wangila; Herbarium Specimen from Suriname Labeled Bowangala; Wangla and Related Names, in Medicine and Confectionary; Soonga; Zezegary; Enslaved Africans Attached Supernatural Subtexts to Sesame; Sesame Superstition: In Obeah Practices, Wards Off Evil; Sesame, Means of Punishment in Gullah Folk Practice, and Belize Belief; Sesame Featured in Lowcountry Recipes; Thomas Jefferson's Garden
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Benne in Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book (Betts 1944)World Economic Conditions Promote Early Colonists' Interest in Sesame; Participation of Jews in Sesame Introduction; Conclusions and Discussion; References; Part2: Handicrafts and Crafters; Chapter 5: By the Rivers of Babylon: The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom; Rice and Baskets; Moses in the Bulrushes; A Lost Civilization and a New Century; References
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Chapter 6: Gathering, Buying, and Growing Sweetgrass ( Muhlenbergia sericea): Urbanization and Social Networking in the Sweetgrass Basket-Making Industry of Lowcountry South Carolina
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781461408352
Weitere Ausg.:
Buchausg. u.d.T. ISBN 9781461408352
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4614-0836-9
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