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1 online resource. |
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Routledge studies in global Latin America |
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Routledge studies in global Latin America.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Locating Knowledge in Early Modern Brazil and India: A Comparative Study of Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) and Hortus Malabaricus (1678-1693) / Anjana Singh and Mariana Françozo -- Portuguese Parallels: Comparing Analogous Efforts toward Codifying Indigenous Medicinal Knowledge in Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Brazil / Timothy D. Walker -- Cover to Cover: A Book Historical Approach to the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae / Alex Alsemgeest and Jeroen Bos -- Searching for Copaiba: Tracing the Quest for a Wound-Healing Oil by Early Explorers in Brazil / Tinde van Andel, Mariana Françozo, and Mireia Alcantara Rodriguez -- An Imaginary Brazilian Zoo: Traditions and Innovations in the Portrayal of Animals in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae / Annemarieke Willemsen -- Marcgraf's Fish in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae and the Rhetorics of Autoptic Testimony / Paul J. Smith -- Reconnecting Knowledges: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae back to Indigenous Societies / Aline da Cruz and Walkíria Neiva Praça -- Appendix: Census of the Copies of Willem Piso and Georg Marcgraf's Historia -- Naturalis Brasiliae (Leiden and Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1648) / Alex Alsemgeest and Jeroen Bos. |
| Summary |
"This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines it from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil offers essential reading on the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, natural history and Latin American history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Local Note |
Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis eBooks: Open Access |
| Subject |
Marggraf, Georg, 1610-1644. Historia naturalis Brasiliae.
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Piso, Willem, 1611-1678. Historia naturalis Brasiliae.
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Marggraf, Georg, 1610-1644. Historia naturalis Brasiliae -- Bibliography.
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Piso, Willem, 1611-1678. Historia naturalis Brasiliae -- Bibliography.
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Natural history -- Brazil.
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Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
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Brazil. (OCoLC)fst01206830
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| Genre/Form |
Bibliographies. (OCoLC)fst01919895
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| Added Author |
Françozo, Mariana, 1979- editor.
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| Added Title |
Historia Naturalis Brasiliae reconsidered |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Toward an intercultural natural history of Brazil New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9781032424729 (DLC) 2022052717 |
| ISBN |
9781003362920 (ebook) |
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1003362923 |
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9781032424729 (hardback) |
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9781032424743 (paperback) |
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