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Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa

Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa

Brito, Cristina

Hardcover

Series: Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures

African HistoryGeneral World HistoryMarine Life

ISBN10: 946372821X
ISBN13: 9789463728218
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 24 2023
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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