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Robert Voeks; John Rashford
Springer New York
African Ethnobotany in the Americas
Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora
Authors

Judith Carney

ARI Id

1664754725934_3082673

Access

Not Available Free

Pages

13-33

DOI

10.1007/978-1-4614-0836-9_2

Chapter URL

https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-0836-9_2

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Front Matter
i-xii
Introduction
Robert Voeks; John Rashford
1-9
Front Matter
11-11
Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora
Judith Carney
13-33
Did Enslaved Africans Spark South Carolina’s Eighteenth-Century Rice Boom?
Stanley B. Alpern
35-66
African Origins of Sesame Cultivation in the Americas
Dorothea Bedigian
67-120
Front Matter
121-121
By the Rivers of Babylon: The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom
Dale Rosengarten
123-152
Gathering, Buying, and Growing Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sericea): Urbanization and Social Networking in the Sweetgrass Basket-Making Industry of Lowcountry South Carolina
Patrick T. Hurley; Brian Grabbatin; Cari Goetcheus; Angela Halfacre
153-173
Marketing, Culture, and Conservation Value of NTFPs: Case Study of Afro-Ecuadorian Use of Piquigua, Heteropsis ecuadorensis (Araceae)
Maria Fadiman
175-194
Berimbau de barriga: Musical Ethnobotany of the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora
James Sera; Robert Voeks
195-214
Front Matter
215-215
Trans-Atlantic Diaspora Ethnobotany: Legacies of West African and Iberian Mediterranean Migration in Central Cuba
Erica S. Moret
217-245
What Makes a Plant Magical? Symbolism and Sacred Herbs in Afro-Surinamese Winti Rituals
Tinde van Andel; Sofie Ruysschaert; Kobeke Van de Putte; Sara Groenendijk
247-284
Medicinal and Cooling Teas of Barbados
Sonia Peter
285-308
Front Matter
309-309
Candomblé’s Cosmic Tree and Brazil’s Ficus Species
John Rashford
311-333
Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America
Bruce Hoffman
335-393
Ethnobotany of Brazil’s African Diaspora: The Role of Floristic Homogenization
Robert Voeks
395-416
Back Matter
417-429
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