Toward an intercultural natural history of Brazil the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae reconsidered
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 Françozo -- Portuguese Parallels: Comparing Analogous Efforts toward Codifying Indigenous Medicinal Knowledge in Seventeenth-a...
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2023
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Schriftenreihe: | Routledge studies in global Latin America
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Zusammenfassung: | 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 Françozo -- 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 Françozo, 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 Walkíria Neiva Praça -- 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. "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"-- |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | xiii, 219 Seiten Illustrationen |
ISBN: | 9781032424729 978-1-032-42472-9 9781032424743 978-1-032-42474-3 |