Creolised Science by Dorit Brixius
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.-
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'This book presents a detailed analysis based on careful study of archival sources to provide a complex picture of the social and sometimes political factors involved in the successful propagation of the plants of Mauritius and the knowledge, both practical and scientific, that resulted from the combined efforts of the island's creolized population … Recommended' J. W. Dauben, CHOICE
Dorit Brixius is a historian of global science and medicine interested in eighteenth-century botany and France's Indian Ocean colonies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009200462 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009200461 |
| Title | Creolised Science |
| Author | Dorit Brixius |
| Series | Science In History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2025-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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