Voeks, Robert
African Ethnobotany in the Americas
1. Introduction
Robert Voeks, John Rashford
2. Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora
Judith Carney
3. Did Enslaved Africans Spark South Carolina’s Eighteenth-Century Rice Boom?
Stanley B. Alpern
4. African Origins of Sesame Cultivation in the Americas
Dorothea Bedigian
5. By the Rivers of Babylon: The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom
Dale Rosengarten
6. Gathering, Buying, and Growing Sweetgrass (
Patrick T. Hurley, Brian Grabbatin, Cari Goetcheus, Angela Halfacre
7. Marketing, Culture, and Conservation Value of NTFPs: Case Study of Afro-Ecuadorian Use of
Maria Fadiman
8.
James Sera, Robert Voeks
9. Trans-Atlantic Diaspora Ethnobotany: Legacies of West African and Iberian Mediterranean Migration in Central Cuba
Erica S. Moret
10. What Makes a Plant Magical? Symbolism and Sacred Herbs in Afro-Surinamese
Tinde Andel, Sofie Ruysschaert, Kobeke Putte, Sara Groenendijk
11. Medicinal and Cooling Teas of Barbados
Sonia Peter
12. Candomblé’s Cosmic Tree and Brazil’s
John Rashford
13. Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America
Bruce Hoffman
14. Ethnobotany of Brazil’s African Diaspora: The Role of Floristic Homogenization
Robert Voeks
Keywords: Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Anatomy/Development, Plant Physiology, Plant Genetics & Genomics
- Author(s)
- Voeks, Robert
- Rashford, John
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2013
- Page amount
- 12 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781461408369