Creolised science : knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific
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...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi$aSingapore : Cambridge University Press,
2024
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Science in history
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| Schlagworte: | Natural history Science Colonialism & imperialism Geschichte anderer geographischer Gruppierungen und Regionen Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften History of other lands History of science Kolonialismus und Imperialismus Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 SCIENCE / History mehr... |
| Umfang: | xv, 258 Seiten |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | xv, 258 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781009200448 1009200445 9781009200462 1009200461 9781009200486 1009200488 |