Palm Oil Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia's Dendê Coast

ISBN-13: 9781108478823 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str.

Case Watkins

Opis

An environmental history and political ecology of palm oil in colonial Brazil, the African diaspora, and the Atlantic World.

Recenzje

'This is an extraordinary and timely study of both the history and contemporary circumstances concerning the African oil palm in Brazil … The book is clearly written, very well structured …' Merle L. Bowen, Agricultural History

Spis treści

1. Assembling an Afro-Brazilian economy; 2. African and Atlantic Worlds; 3. Creolization; 4. An Afro-Brazilian landscape; 5. South Atlantic exchange; 6. Landscapes, religions, transitions; 7. Complexity; Epilogue: decolonizing dendê.