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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1. Verfasser: Brixius, Dorit (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:Science in history (Cambridge University Press)
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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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1 -- The - limits of French colonial visions and science -- - 2 -- The - acquisition of knowledge and plants, from Madagascar to China -- - 3 -- - Agriculture and everyday knowledge -- - 4 -- - Enslaved people as knowledge carriers -- - 5 -- The - cross-cultural quest for spices in Southeast Asia -- - 6 -- - Materials, environment, and the application of knowledge
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 258 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009200486
DOI:10.1017/9781009200486

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