Verfasst von:	Brixius, Dorit [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Creolised science
Titelzusatz:	knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific
Verf.angabe:	Dorit Brixius
Ausgabe:	First edition
Verlagsort:	Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi$aSingapore
Verlag:	Cambridge University Press
Jahr:	2024
Umfang:	xv, 258 Seiten
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Science in history
Ang. zum Inhalt:	limits of French colonial visions and science
	acquisition of knowledge and plants, from Madagascar to China
	Agriculture and everyday knowledge
	Enslaved people as knowledge carriers
	cross-cultural quest for spices in Southeast Asia
	Materials, environment, and the application of knowledge.
ISBN:	978-1-009-20044-8
	978-1-009-20046-2
Abstract:	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
DOI:	doi:10.1017/9781009200486
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	DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009200486
Schlagwörter:	(g)Indopazifik
	(s)Wissen    / (s)Wissenserwerb    / (s)Naturwissenschaften    / (s)Naturgeschichte <Fach>    / (s)Materialität    / (z)Geschichte 1700-1800
Sprache:	eng
(Sekundärform):	Also available online
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Brixius, Dorit: Creolised science. - First edition. - New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024
Sach-SW:	Colonialism & imperialism
	Geschichte anderer geographischer Gruppierungen und Regionen
	Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften
	History of other lands
	History of science
	Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
	Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
	SCIENCE / History
Geograph. SW:	Indian Ocean
	Indischer Ozean
Zeit-SW:	18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)
	c 1700 to c 1800
K10plus-PPN:	1872068073