| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 347 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Series |
Afro-Latin America |
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Afro-Latin America.
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| Contents |
Assembling an Afro-Brazilian economy -- African and Atlantic worlds -- Creolization -- An Afro-Brazilian landscape -- South Atlantic exchange -- Landscapes, religions, transitions -- Complexity -- Epilogue: Decolonizing Dendê |
| Summary |
"Behind the social and environmental destruction of modern palm oil production lies a long and complex history of landscapes, cultures, and economies linking Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic World. Case Watkins traces palm oil from its prehistoric emergence in western Africa to biodiverse groves and cultures in Northeast Brazil, and finally the plantation monocultures plundering contemporary rainforest communities. Drawing on ethnography, landscape interpretation, archives, travelers' accounts, and geospatial analysis, Watkins examines human-environmental relations too often overlooked in histories and geographies of the African diaspora, and uncovers a range of formative contributions of people and ecologies of African descent to the societies and environments of the (post)colonial Americas. Bridging literatures on Black geographies, Afro-Brazilian and Atlantic studies, political ecology, and decolonial theory and praxis, this study connects diverse concepts and disciplines to analyze and appreciate the power, complexity, and potentials of Bahia's Afro-Brazilian palm oil economy"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Revision of author's Ph. D. dissertation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 01, 2021) |
| Subject |
Palm oil industry -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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Palm oil industry -- Economic aspects -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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Palm oil industry -- Environmental aspects -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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Black people -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Economic conditions
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Human ecology -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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Black people -- Economic conditions
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Economic history
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Human ecology
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Palm oil industry
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| SUBJECT |
Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
Brazil -- Bahia (State)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020055284 |
| ISBN |
9781108778893 |
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1108778895 |
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9781108808293 |
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1108808298 |
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