Cristina Brito

Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa

Sprachen: Englisch. 24,0 cm / 16,1 cm / 1,9 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9789463728218
202,50 €
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272 Seiten
Juli 2023
Routledge

This book deals with peoples' practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern Atlantic coasts by addressing exploitation, use, fear, empathy, otherness, and indifference in the relationships established with aquatic environments and resources by Indigenous Peoples and Europeans.

Cristina Brito is an Associate Professor at the History Department at NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, and researcher at CHAM - Center for the Humanities. She is one of the PIs of the ERC Synergy Grant 4-OCEANS: Human History of Marine Life, and of two EEA Grants Bilateral Funds Initiatives.

Acknowledgements, Introduction: Magnificent and mighty monsters of nature, 1. The case of Matto, the manatee, A Manatee in a Lake, 2. Cosmogonies, aquatic deities, and water myths of origin, (My) Mermaid of the Island, 3. Aquatic monsters: From imaginary animals to sharks, caimans and sea lions, 4. Beliefs about and practices in nature: From living creatures to resources and symbols, Water Wor(l)ds, 5. (Early) modern 'naturecultures': A co-constructed narrative of the world, The Roundness of Earth and Time, Index.