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African Ethnobotany in the Americas

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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora
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    Chapter 3 Did Enslaved Africans Spark South Carolina’s Eighteenth-Century Rice Boom?
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    Chapter 4 African Origins of Sesame Cultivation in the Americas
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    Chapter 5 By the Rivers of Babylon: The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom
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    Chapter 6 Gathering, Buying, and Growing Sweetgrass ( Muhlenbergia sericea ): Urbanization and Social Networking in the Sweetgrass Basket-Making Industry of Lowcountry South Carolina
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    Chapter 7 Marketing, Culture, and Conservation Value of NTFPs: Case Study of Afro-Ecuadorian Use of Piquigua, Heteropsis ecuadorensis (Araceae)
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    Chapter 8 Berimbau de barriga: Musical Ethnobotany of the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora
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    Chapter 9 Trans-Atlantic Diaspora Ethnobotany: Legacies of West African and Iberian Mediterranean Migration in Central Cuba
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    Chapter 10 What Makes a Plant Magical? Symbolism and Sacred Herbs in Afro-Surinamese Winti Rituals
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    Chapter 11 Medicinal and Cooling Teas of Barbados
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    Chapter 12 Candomblé’s Cosmic Tree and Brazil’s Ficus Species
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    Chapter 13 Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America
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    Chapter 14 Ethnobotany of Brazil’s African Diaspora: The Role of Floristic Homogenization
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Chapter title
Ethnobotany of Brazil’s African Diaspora: The Role of Floristic Homogenization
Chapter number 14
Book title
African Ethnobotany in the Americas
Published by
Springer New York, February 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0836-9_14
Book ISBNs
978-1-4614-0835-2, 978-1-4614-0836-9
Authors

Robert Voeks, Voeks, Robert

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 4%
Unknown 24 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 36%
Researcher 3 12%
Lecturer 2 8%
Unspecified 2 8%
Student > Master 2 8%
Other 5 20%
Unknown 2 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 44%
Unspecified 2 8%
Social Sciences 2 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 5 20%