Creolised Science : Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific Hardback
by Dorit Brixius
Part of the Science in History series
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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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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/04/2024
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:276 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:04/04/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009200448
