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Historia

Creolised Science

Dorit Brixius

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  • 276 sidor
  • 2024
This rich, deeply researched study offers the first comprehensive exploration of cross-cultural plant knowledge in eighteenth-century Mauritius. Using the concept of creolisation - the process by which elements of different cultures are brought together to create entangled and evolving new entities - Brixius examines the production of knowledge on an island without long-established traditions of botany as understood by Europeans. Once foreign plants and knowledge arrived in Mauritius, they were adapted to new environmental circumstances and a new socio-cultural space. Brixius explores how French colonists, settlers, mediators, labourers and enslaved people experienced and shaped the island's botanical past, centring the contributions of subaltern actors. By foregrounding neglected non-European actors from both Africa and Asia, within a melting pot of cultivation traditions from around the world, she presents a truly global history of botanical knowledge.
  • Författare: Dorit Brixius
  • Illustratör: Worked examples or Exercises
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781009200448
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 276
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-04-04
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press