Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa / / Cristina Brito.
This book deals with peoples’ practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern Atlantic coasts by addressing exploitation, use, fear, empathy, otherness, and indifference in the relationships established with aquatic environments...
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Brito, Cristina, 1975- author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa / Cristina Brito. First edition. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (270 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures ; 8. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Aug 2023) This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access This book deals with peoples’ practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern Atlantic coasts by addressing exploitation, use, fear, empathy, otherness, and indifference in the relationships established with aquatic environments and resources by Indigenous Peoples and Europeans. It focuses on large aquatic fauna, especially manatees (but also sharks, sea turtles, seals, and others) as they were hunted, consumed, venerated, conceptualised, and recorded by different societies across the early colonial Americas and West Africa. Through a cross-cultural approach drawing on concepts and analytical methods from marine environmental history, the blue humanities and animal studies, this book addresses more-than-human systems where ecologies, geographies, cosmogonies, and cultures are an entangled web of interdependencies. In English. Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The case of Matto, the manatee -- 2. Cosmogonies, aquatic deities, and water myths of origin -- 3. Aquatic monsters : From imaginary animals to sharks, caimans, and sea lions -- 4. Beliefs about and practices in nature : From living creatures to resources and symbols -- 5. (Early) modern ‘naturecultures’ : A co‑constructed narrative of the world -- Index Africa History. Early modern Americas, Marine environmental history, Marine animals studies, Practices and Perceptions, Indigenous Peoples. History Africa. 9789463728218 Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures. |
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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The case of Matto, the manatee -- 2. Cosmogonies, aquatic deities, and water myths of origin -- 3. Aquatic monsters : From imaginary animals to sharks, caimans, and sea lions -- 4. Beliefs about and practices in nature : From living creatures to resources and symbols -- 5. (Early) modern ‘naturecultures’ : A co‑constructed narrative of the world -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The case of Matto, the manatee -- 2. Cosmogonies, aquatic deities, and water myths of origin -- 3. Aquatic monsters : From imaginary animals to sharks, caimans, and sea lions -- 4. Beliefs about and practices in nature : From living creatures to resources and symbols -- 5. (Early) modern ‘naturecultures’ : A co‑constructed narrative of the world -- Index |
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