Understories Plants And Culture In The American Tropics
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Author |
: Lesley Wylie |
Publisher |
: Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2023-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781837645008 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1837645000 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics by : Lesley Wylie
Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the hevea brasilensis, kudzu, the breadfruit, soy, and the ceiba pentandra, among others – this volume shows that vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries in and beyond the region. Drawing on a wide range of cultural traditions and forms across literature, popular music, art, and film, the essays included in this volume transcend regional and linguistic boundaries to bring together multiple plant-centred histories or ‘understories’ – narratives that until now have been marginalized or gone unnoticed. Attending not only to the significant influence of humans on plants, but also of plants on humans, this book offers new understandings of how colonization, globalization, and power were, and continue to be, imbricated with nature in the American tropics.
Author |
: Lesley Wylie |
Publisher |
: Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2023-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781835535226 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1835535224 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics by : Lesley Wylie
Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the hevea brasilensis, kudzu, the breadfruit, soy, and the ceiba pentandra, among others – this volume shows that vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries in and beyond the region. Drawing on a wide range of cultural traditions and forms across literature, popular music, art, and film, the essays included in this volume transcend regional and linguistic boundaries to bring together multiple plant-centred histories or ‘understories’ – narratives that until now have been marginalized or gone unnoticed. Attending not only to the significant influence of humans on plants, but also of plants on humans, this book offers new understandings of how colonization, globalization, and power were, and continue to be, imbricated with nature in the American tropics.
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Total Pages |
: 1064 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCD:31175028218371 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Journal of Botany by :
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: Jean Craighead George |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 82 |
Release |
: 1995-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780064420167 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0064420167 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest by : Jean Craighead George
Today is doomsday for a young Venezuelan Indian boy's beloved rain forest and its animal life—unless he and a visiting naturalist can save it. "George makes drama large and small out of the minute-by-minute events in an ecosystem . . . gripping ecological theater." —C. "An example of nonfiction writing at its best." —SLJ. Notable 1990 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1990 (NSTA/CBC)
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Total Pages |
: 924 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105123442555 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dissertation Abstracts International by :
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Total Pages |
: 860 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: CORNELL:31924068458961 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
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Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 1975 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B5022370 |
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: |
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: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings of International Meeting on the Use of Ecological Guidelines for Development in the American Humid Tropics, Held at Caracas, Venezuela, 20-22 February 1974 by :
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Total Pages |
: 1044 |
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: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951T00244145R |
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: 4/5 (5R Downloads) |
Synopsis IUCN Publications by :
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: |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015085830373 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Identification and Biology of Nonnative Plants in Florida's Natural Areas by :
Author |
: Duncan Poore |
Publisher |
: IUCN |
Total Pages |
: 84 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 283170071X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9782831700717 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (1X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Management of Tropical Moist Forest Lands by : Duncan Poore
This book is a comprehensive guide to fundamental ecological principles in tropical moist forest lands. This edition has been revised to encompass our increased knowledge and understandings of the complexities of forest management. It addresses the cross-cutting issues: the effects of government policies, land allocation and infrastructure development in forest lands. An analysis is made regarding various forest uses: forests for wood, forests for agriculture and forests for nature conservation and environmental protection.