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245 00 a| African ethnobotany in the Americas /c| Robert Voeks, John Rashford, editors.;

300 a| xii, 429 pages :b| illustrations (chiefly color), maps ;c| 24 cm.;

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505 00 t| Introduction /r| Robert Voeks and John Rashford --t| Seeds of memory : botanical legacies of the African diaspora /r| Judith Carney --t| Did enslaved Africans spark South Carolina's eighteenth-century rice boom? /r| Stanley B. Alpern --t| African origins of sesame cultivation in the Americas /r| Dorothea Bedigian --t| By the rivers of Babylon : the Lowcountry basket in slavery and freedom /r| Dale Rosengarten --t| Gathering, buying, and growing sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sericea) : urbanization and social networking in the sweetgrass basket-making industry of Lowcountry South Carolina /r| Patrick T. Hurley ... [et al.] --t| Marketing, culture, and conservation value of NTFPs : case study of Afro-Ecuadorian use of Piquigua, Heteropsis ecuadorensis (Araceae) /r| Maria Fadiman --t| Berimbau de barriga : musical ethnobotany of the Afro-Brazilian diaspora /r| James Sera and Robert Voeks --t| Trans-atlantic diaspora ethnobotany : legacies of West African and Iberian Mediterranean migration in Central Cuba /r| Erica S. Moret --t| What makes a plant magical? : symbolism and sacred herbs in Afro-Surinamese winti rituals /r| Tinde van Andel ... [et al.] --t| Medicinal and cooling teas of Barbados /r| Sonia Peter --t| Candomble's cosmic tree and Brazil's Ficus species /r| John Rashford --t| Exploring biocultural contexts : comparative woody plant knowledge of an indigenous and Afro-American Maroon community in Suriname, South America /r| Bruce Hoffman --t| Ethnobotany of Brazil's African diaspora : the role of floristic homogenization /r| Robert Voeks.;

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African ethnobotany in the Americas / Robert Voeks, John Rashford, editors.

Other author	Voeks, Robert A., 1950-
Other author	Rashford, John.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Springer, ©2013.
Description	xii, 429 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Black people--Ethnobotany. --America. --History. Black people--Ethnobotany. --Africa. --History. Enslaved persons--America. --History. Ethnobotany--America. --History. Ethnobotany--Africa. --History. Plants, Edible--America. --History. Plants, Edible--Africa. --History. Medicinal plants--America. --History. Medicinal plants--Africa. --History. America--Civilization. --African influences.

Series	Life sciences Springer life sciences. ^A1119727
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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- Medicinal and cooling teas of Barbados / Sonia Peter -- Candomble'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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2012944256
ISBN	9781461408352
ISBN	1461408350

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