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African Ethnobotany in the Americas (Record no. 17434)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781461408369
978-1-4614-0836-9
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Classification number QK1-989
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Classification number 580
Edition number 23
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-- New York, NY :
-- Springer New York :
-- Imprint: Springer,
-- 2013.
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Voeks, Robert.
Relator term editor.
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Title African Ethnobotany in the Americas
Medium [electronic resource] /
Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Robert Voeks, John Rashford.
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Extent XII, 429 p. 105 illus., 69 illus. in color.
Other physical details online resource.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction -- Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora -- Did Enslaved Africans Spark South Carolina’s 18th-Century Rice Boom? -- African Origins of Sesame Cultivation in the Americas -- By the Rivers of Babylon: The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom -- Gathering, Buying, and Growing Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sericea): Urbanization and Social Networking in the Sweetgrass Basket-Making Industry of Lowcountry South Carolina -- Marketing, Culture and Conservation Value of NTFPs: A Case Study of Afro-Ecuadorian Use of Piquigua (Heteropsis ecuadorensis, Araceae) -- Berimbau de Barriga: Musical Ethnobotany of the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora -- Trans-Atlantic Diaspora Ethnobotany: Legacies of West African and Iberian Mediterranean Migration in Central Cuba -- What Makes a Plant Magical? Symbolism and Sacred Herbs in Afro-Surinamese Winti Rituals -- Medicinal and Cooling Teas of Barbados -- Candomble's Cosmic Tree and Brazil's Ficus Species -- Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America -- Ethnobotany of Brazil’s African Diaspora: The Role of Floristic Homogenization.
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Summary, etc 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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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life sciences.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biochemistry.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Botany.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plant anatomy.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plant breeding.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plant physiology.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Life Sciences.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plant Sciences.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plant Biochemistry.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plant Anatomy/Development.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plant Physiology.
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Plant Genetics & Genomics.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rashford, John.
Relator term editor.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9781461408352
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0836-9
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Item type E-Book
Copies
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2014-04-04AUM Main Library2014-04-04 2014-04-04 E-Book   AUM Main Library580
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