UID:
almahu_9949744268102882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 258 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009200486 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Science in history
Content:
This rich, deeply researched study offers the first comprehensive exploration of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius. Using the concept of creolisation - the process by which elements of different cultures are brought together to create entangled and evolving new entities - Brixius examines the production of knowledge on an island without long-established traditions of botany as understood by Europeans. Once foreign plants and knowledge arrived in Mauritius, they were adapted to new environmental circumstances and a new socio-cultural space. Brixius explores how French colonists, settlers, mediators, labourers and enslaved people experienced and shaped the island's botanical past, centring the contributions of subaltern actors. By foregrounding neglected non-European actors from both Africa and Asia, within a melting pot of cultivation traditions from around the world, she presents a truly global history of botanical knowledge.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Apr 2024).
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limits of French colonial visions and science --
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acquisition of knowledge and plants, from Madagascar to China --
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Agriculture and everyday knowledge --
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Enslaved people as knowledge carriers --
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cross-cultural quest for spices in Southeast Asia --
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Materials, environment, and the application of knowledge.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781009200448
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009200486
