Toward an intercultural natural history of Brazil the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae reconsidered / edited by Mariana Fran©ʹozo.
| Other author | Fran©ʹozo, Mariana de Campos, 1979- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | volumes cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Historia Naturalis Brasiliae reconsidered |
| Series | Routledge studies in global Latin America |
| Contents | Locating Knowledge in Early Modern Brazil and India: A Comparative Study of Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) and Hortus Malabaricus (1678-1693) / Anjana Singh and Mariana Fran©ʹozo -- Portuguese Parallels: Comparing Analogous Efforts toward Codifying Indigenous Medicinal Knowledge in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Brazil / Timothy D. Walker -- Cover to Cover: A Book Historical Approach to the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae / Alex Alsemgeest and Jeroen Bos -- Searching for Copaiba: Tracing the Quest for a Wound-Healing Oil by Early Explorers in Brazil / Tinde van Andel, Mariana Fran©ʹozo, and Mireia Alcantara Rodriguez -- An Imaginary Brazilian Zoo: Traditions and Innovations in the Portrayal of Animals in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae / Annemarieke Willemsen -- Marcgraf's Fish in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae and the Rhetorics of Autoptic Testimony / Paul J. Smith -- Reconnecting Knowledges: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae back to Indigenous Societies / Aline da Cruz and Walk©Ưria Neiva Pra©ʹa -- Appendix: Census of the Copies of Willem Piso and Georg Marcgraf's Historia -- Naturalis Brasiliae (Leiden and Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1648) / Alex Alsemgeest and Jeroen Bos. |
| Abstract | "This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines it from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil offers essential reading on the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, natural history and Latin American history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022052717 |
| ISBN | 9781032424729 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032424743 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |