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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. |
