１８世紀インド太平洋における植物知識 Creolised Science : Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Indo-Pacific (Science in History)

Brixius, Dorit

Cambridge University Press（2024/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 276 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009200448
• DDC分類 508.6982

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction; 1. The limits of French colonial visions and science; 2. The acquisition of knowledge and plants, from Madagascar to China; 3. Agriculture and everyday knowledge; 4. Enslaved people as knowledge carriers; 5. The cross-cultural quest for spices in Southeast Asia; 6. Materials, environment, and the application of knowledge; Conclusion.