African Ethnobotany in the Americas

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora

Chapter 3 Did Enslaved Africans Spark South Carolina’s Eighteenth-Century Rice Boom?

Chapter 4 African Origins of Sesame Cultivation in the Americas

Chapter 5 By the Rivers of Babylon: The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom

Chapter 6 Gathering, Buying, and Growing Sweetgrass ( Muhlenbergia sericea ): Urbanization and Social Networking in the Sweetgrass Basket-Making Industry of Lowcountry South Carolina

Chapter 7 Marketing, Culture, and Conservation Value of NTFPs: Case Study of Afro-Ecuadorian Use of Piquigua, Heteropsis ecuadorensis (Araceae)

Chapter 8 Berimbau de barriga: Musical Ethnobotany of the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora

Chapter 9 Trans-Atlantic Diaspora Ethnobotany: Legacies of West African and Iberian Mediterranean Migration in Central Cuba

Chapter 10 What Makes a Plant Magical? Symbolism and Sacred Herbs in Afro-Surinamese Winti Rituals

Chapter 11 Medicinal and Cooling Teas of Barbados

Chapter 12 Candomblé’s Cosmic Tree and Brazil’s Ficus Species

Chapter 13 Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America

Chapter 14 Ethnobotany of Brazil’s African Diaspora: The Role of Floristic Homogenization