Robert Voeks (52 results)
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Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.World of Books (was SecondSale)
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Candombl , an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcibly transplanted to the New World, they faced the challenge not only of maintaining their culture and beliefs in the face of European domination but also of finding plants with similar properties to the ones they had used in Africa. This book traces the origin, diffusion, medicinal use, and meaning of Candombl 's healing pharmacopoeia--the sacred leaves. Robert Voeks examines such topics as the biogeography of Africa and Brazil, the transference--and transformation--of Candombl as its adherents encountered both native South American belief systems and European Christianity, and the African system of medicinal plant classification that allowed Candombl to survive and even thrive in the New World. This research casts new light on topics ranging from the creation of African American cultures to tropical rain forest healing floras.…
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Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia. Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives.
Miguel N. Alexiades (ed.), Laura Rival, Conrad Feather, Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez, Christine Padoch, Helen Newing, Charles R. Clement, David M. Cole, Meredith Dudley, Stanford Zent, Giovanna Micarelli, Daniella M. Peluso & Robert Voeks
Language: English
Published by Berghahn Books, 2009
Series: Book 5 of 18 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover. Illustrated with maps in black and white. TExt in English. XVIII+310 pp. Condition: Near Fine.
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Hardback. Condition: New. In the mysterious and pristine forests of the tropics, a wealth of ethnobotanical panaceas and shamanic knowledge promises cures for everything from cancer and AIDS to the common cold. To access such miracles, we need only to discover and protect these medicinal treasures before they succumb to the corrosive forces of the modern world. A compelling biocultural story, certainly, and a popular perspective on the lands and peoples of equatorial latitudes--but true? Only in part. In The Ethnobotany of Eden, geographer Robert A. Voeks unravels the long lianas of history and occasional strands of truth that gave rise to this irresistible jungle medicine narrative. By exploring the interconnected worlds of anthropology, botany, and geography, Voeks shows that well-intentioned scientists and environmentalists originally crafted the jungle narrative with the primary goal of saving the world's tropical rainforests from destruction. It was a strategy deployed to address a pressing environmental problem, one that appeared at a propitious point in history just as the Western world was taking a more globalized view of environmental issues. And yet, although supported by science and its practitioners, the story was also underpinned by a persuasive mix of myth, sentimentality, and nostalgia for a long-lost tropical Eden. Resurrecting the fascinating history of plant prospecting in the tropics, from the colonial era to the present day, The Ethnobotany of Eden rewrites with modern science the degradation narrative we've built up around tropical forests, revealing the entangled origins of our fables of forest cures.…
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