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oapen-20.500.12657-640302023-07-21T02:45:07Z Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa Brito, Cristina Early modern Americas, Marine environmental history, Marine animals studies, Practices and Perceptions, Indigenous Peoples bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJH African history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WN Natural history::WNC Wildlife: general interest::WNCS Wildlife: aquatic creatures 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. It focuses on large aquatic fauna, especially manatees (but also sharks, sea turtles, seals, and others) as they were hunted, consumed, venerated, conceptualised, and recorded by different societies across the early colonial Americas and West Africa. Through a cross-cultural approach drawing on concepts and analytical methods from marine environmental history, the blue humanities and animal studies, this book addresses more-than-human systems where ecologies, geographies, cosmogonies, and cultures are an entangled web of interdependencies. 2023-07-20T10:28:31Z 2023-07-20T10:28:31Z 2023 book 9789463728218 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64030 eng Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048544851.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463728218 10.5117/9789463728218 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9789463728218 European Research Council (ERC) 8 272 Amsterdam 951649 4-OCEANS: Human History of Marine Life H2020 European Research Council H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council open access
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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. It focuses on large aquatic fauna, especially manatees (but also sharks, sea turtles, seals, and others) as they were hunted, consumed, venerated, conceptualised, and recorded by different societies across the early colonial Americas and West Africa. Through a cross-cultural approach drawing on concepts and analytical methods from marine environmental history, the blue humanities and animal studies, this book addresses more-than-human systems where ecologies, geographies, cosmogonies, and cultures are an entangled web of interdependencies.
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