Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered

• Main Author: Françozo', Mariana
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Taylor & Francis 2023; Routledge; Taylor and Francis
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Global Latin America
• Subjects: Brazil; Central America; Europe; European history; History; History and Archaeology; History of the Americas; Latin America; Latin American History; Science and Technology; World history; Rijksmuseum Van Natuurlijke Historie; Tupi Guarani; Hortus Malabaricus; Latin American History, Brazil, Science and Technology, History; De Laet; Willem Piso; East Indies; Staten Generaal; Frederick III; Naturalis Biodiversity Center; Copaiba Balsam; Young Men; Copaiba Oil; Tupi Guarani Languages; National Library; Van Reede; Contemporary Vellum; Brazilian Medicinal Plants; Johannes De Laet; Global Healing Ideas; Yellowtail Snapper; Library Stamp; Flora Brasiliensis; Johan Maurits; HNB; Lagoa Dos Patos
• ISBN: 9781000867534; 1000867536; 9781032424743; 9781032424729; 1032424729; 1032424745; 9781003362920; 1003362923
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003362920

This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines the book from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints. The chapters in this volume are written by scholars from different fields of knowledge, including anthropology, botany, linguistics, literature, book history, medieval and early modern history, and art history. The chapters contextualize the treatise vis-à-vis its predecessors and contemporaneous works of natural history and examine its botanical, zoological, and linguistic accuracy and usefulness in the present day. Put together, the seven chapters of this volume present a kaleidoscope of possibilities of how to re-interpret Piso and Marcgraf’s work within the dynamic context of knowledge-production about the ‘New’ World in the early modern era, while also suggesting approaches to continue profiting from its subject matter in the present day. Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil offers essential reading on the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, natural history and Latin American history.