Creolised Science: Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific
Dorit Brixius
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.
Año:
2024
Edición:
1
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
275
ISBN 10:
1009200445
ISBN 13:
9781009200448
Archivo:
PDF, 3.47 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2024