Robert A Voeks
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1686591 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert A Voeks |
| PRENOMES | Robert A |
| SOBRENOME | Voeks |
| ASSINATURA | VOEKS R A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | California State University, Fullerton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1549-3923 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 288 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Ethnobotany of Quilombola Homegardens
Ethnobotany of quilombola homegardens: resistance and cultural preservation in the Matinha dos Pretos and Paus Altos communities in Bahia State, Brazil. Quilombola backyard homegardens are spaces of resistance to the oppression of previously enslaved people who, even though “free,” are unable to expand their territorial boundaries. We examined the backyards of two quilombola communities in the Caatinga region of Bahia State in order to identify t…
Ethnobotany and Economic Botany
Flowering and Fruiting Calendar of Babaçu (Attalea pindobassu)
Mixtec taxonomy
Background: Ethnotaxonomy seeks to understand how members of a culture name and categorize biological organisms in their local language. This research examined the ethnotaxonomy of plants among the Mixtec people in the municipality of San Miguel el Grande, Oaxaca, Mexico.Methods: We conducted a collaborative research between 2019 and 2020 with 42 Mixtec men and women between 38 and 100 years of age, in the ten communities that make up the municip…
A Reply to Pierotti’s (2018) Review of “Evolutionary Ethnobiology”
Are Mixtec Forgetting Their Plants? Intracultural Variation of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Oaxaca, Mexico
Uses, Knowledge, and Management of the Threatened Pepper-Bark Tree (Warburgia salutaris) in Southern Mozambique
The Gradual Loss of African Indigenous Vegetables in Tropical America
God's healing leaves
The colonial era witnessed a fevered quest for exotic medicinal plants by European physicians and scientists. This essay explores the geographical principles that oriented the search towards the lands and peoples of the humid tropics. Believing that God had planted botanical cures for diseases in their places of origin, medicinal plant collectors concentrated their efforts in the pestilential equatorial latitudes. Although many subscribed to the …
Ethnobotany
Ethnobotany is the study of the dynamic relationship between plants and people. Considerable ethnobotanical inquiry focuses on the search for commercially valuable botanical products, especially medicines, but the field is becoming increasingly conceptual and problem oriented. Researchers explore the processes of crop domestication and diffusion, as well as indigenous plant‐naming systems. They investigate the strategies employed by rural subsist…
Ethnomedicinal survey of a maroon community in Brazil's Atlantic tropical forest
Cannabis
Robert C. Clarke and Mark D. Merlin. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013. xv and 452 pp., maps, timeline, and index. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 9780520270480).The end of the war on weed is i
The Cultural Value of Invasive Species
Spiritual Flora of Brazil’s African Diaspora
Candomblé was introduced to Brazil by enslaved and free West Africans in the early nineteenth century. One dimension of the religion is a profound association between a pantheon of deities (the orixás) and a pharmacopoeia of magico-medicinal plants. This article explores the means by which the black diaspora was able to organize an African-inspired spiritual ethno-flora in the Americas. I argue that a cornucopia of esculent and medicinal plants h…
African Ethnobotany in the Americas
Mollusks of Candomblé
Human societies utilize mollusks for myriad material and spiritual ends. An example of their use in a religious context is found in Brazil's African-derived belief systems. Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion introduced during the 18th-19thcenturies by enslaved Yoruba, includes various magical and liturgical uses of mollusks. This work inventoried the species utilized by adherents and to analyzed their symbolic and magical context. Data were ob…
Animals for the Gods
Are women reservoirs of traditional plant knowledge? Gender, ethnobotany and globalization in northeast Brazil
This study examines the degree to which knowledge of traditional plant medicine is gendered among communities settled near Chapada Diamantina National Park in eastern Bahia state, northeast Brazil. Employing a quantitative analysis of a sample plant pharmacopoeia, I focus on the relationship between gender, age and the socioeconomic impacts of globalization in this tropical region. Results indicate that women are more familiar with both the field…
Dusun Ethnobotany
Ethnobotanical knowledge constitutes a primary nexus of nature and culture within traditional, subsistence societies. This paper examines the ethnobotanical knowledge domain and naming system maintained by the Dusun of northern Borneo (Brunei), a swidden cultivating group. Two elderly male Dusun collaborated in a census of old-growth and disturbed forest habitats. They identified and named 244 species, of which 87% serve either material or magica…
Forgetting the Forest
Disturbance Pharmacopoeias
The much‐publicized quest for miracle drug plants in tropical rainforests has provided compelling support for the preservationist agenda. This article questions the assumptions that underpin this claim, particularly the myth that pristine forest represents the primary repository of nature's medicinal providence. After tracing colonial European efforts at medicinal plant discovery, intellectual property exploitation, and plant transference and acc…
Landscape legacies of the African diaspora in Brazil
Geographers have been reticent on the role of the African diaspora in the contouring of Brazil's biological and cultural landscapes. Whereas paradigm shifts have occurred in regards to environmental stability in the tropical realm and the pristine nature of pre-Columbian landscapes, these have not translated to a rigorous reassessment of the geographical position of Africans and their descendants as active agents in landscape evolution. In this a…
The scope of hunter-gatherer ethnomedicine
Tropical Forest Healers and Habitat Preference
Sacred Leaves of Candomblé
Note on Orthography Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Bahian Landscape 3. Indians and Africans 4. Religion of the Orixas 5. Candomble Medicine 6. Medicinal Plant Classification 7. The Candomble Flora 8. African Religion in the Americas Appendix 1 Candomble Species List Appendix 2 House Abo for Three Candomble Terreiros Notes Glossary References Cited General Index Index of Scientific Names
Forgetting the Forest
Disturbance Pharmacopoeias
The much‐publicized quest for miracle drug plants in tropical rainforests has provided compelling support for the preservationist agenda. This article questions the assumptions that underpin this claim, particularly the myth that pristine forest represents the primary repository of nature's medicinal providence. After tracing colonial European efforts at medicinal plant discovery, intellectual property exploitation, and plant transference and acc…
Tropical Forest Healers and Habitat Preference
African Medicine and Magic in the Americas
CONQUEST and colonization of the Americas by Europeans were accompanied by an unprecedented blending of Old World and New World diseases, ethnomedical systems, and plant-based pharmacopoeias. Romantic visions of a salubrious American Eden, free of illness and aging, yielded to the reality of epidemic and premature death. Indigenous peoples succumbed in droves to exotic viruses; Mediterranean colonists battled new tropical maladies; and African ca…
Animals for the Gods
Landscape legacies of the African diaspora in Brazil
Geographers have been reticent on the role of the African diaspora in the contouring of Brazil's biological and cultural landscapes. Whereas paradigm shifts have occurred in regards to environmental stability in the tropical realm and the pristine nature of pre-Columbian landscapes, these have not translated to a rigorous reassessment of the geographical position of Africans and their descendants as active agents in landscape evolution. In this a…
The scope of hunter-gatherer ethnomedicine
The Cultural Value of Invasive Species
Sacred Leaves of Brazilian Candomble
Candomble religion diffused from the Yoruba area of West Africa to Bahia, Brazil, via the slave trade. Use of plants for spiritual and medicinal purposes is fundamental to the practice of Candomble. Religious leaders retained elements of their ethnoflora by importing Old World species and by using accidentally introduced weeds. Brazilian species were substituted, when it was not feasible to use African ones. The biogeographical similarity of the …
Mollusks of Candomblé
Human societies utilize mollusks for myriad material and spiritual ends. An example of their use in a religious context is found in Brazil's African-derived belief systems. Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion introduced during the 18th-19thcenturies by enslaved Yoruba, includes various magical and liturgical uses of mollusks. This work inventoried the species utilized by adherents and to analyzed their symbolic and magical context. Data were ob…
Are Mixtec Forgetting Their Plants? Intracultural Variation of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Oaxaca, Mexico
God's healing leaves
The colonial era witnessed a fevered quest for exotic medicinal plants by European physicians and scientists. This essay explores the geographical principles that oriented the search towards the lands and peoples of the humid tropics. Believing that God had planted botanical cures for diseases in their places of origin, medicinal plant collectors concentrated their efforts in the pestilential equatorial latitudes. Although many subscribed to the …
Biological Relationships between Africa and South America
Examines the separation and subsequent history of Africa and South America from a biological point of view. The book provides an up-to-date comparative view of their flora and fauna, and summarizes current knowledge about the biogeographical relationships among major groups of organisms
A Reply to Pierotti’s (2018) Review of “Evolutionary Ethnobiology”
Spiritual Flora of Brazil’s African Diaspora
Candomblé was introduced to Brazil by enslaved and free West Africans in the early nineteenth century. One dimension of the religion is a profound association between a pantheon of deities (the orixás) and a pharmacopoeia of magico-medicinal plants. This article explores the means by which the black diaspora was able to organize an African-inspired spiritual ethno-flora in the Americas. I argue that a cornucopia of esculent and medicinal plants h…
Dusun Ethnobotany
Ethnobotanical knowledge constitutes a primary nexus of nature and culture within traditional, subsistence societies. This paper examines the ethnobotanical knowledge domain and naming system maintained by the Dusun of northern Borneo (Brunei), a swidden cultivating group. Two elderly male Dusun collaborated in a census of old-growth and disturbed forest habitats. They identified and named 244 species, of which 87% serve either material or magica…
Sacred Leaves of Brazilian Candomble
Candomble religion diffused from the Yoruba area of West Africa to Bahia, Brazil, via the slave trade. Use of plants for spiritual and medicinal purposes is fundamental to the practice of Candomble. Religious leaders retained elements of their ethnoflora by importing Old World species and by using accidentally introduced weeds. Brazilian species were substituted, when it was not feasible to use African ones. The biogeographical similarity of the …
African Medicine and Magic in the Americas
CONQUEST and colonization of the Americas by Europeans were accompanied by an unprecedented blending of Old World and New World diseases, ethnomedical systems, and plant-based pharmacopoeias. Romantic visions of a salubrious American Eden, free of illness and aging, yielded to the reality of epidemic and premature death. Indigenous peoples succumbed in droves to exotic viruses; Mediterranean colonists battled new tropical maladies; and African ca…
Biological Relationships between Africa and South America
Examines the separation and subsequent history of Africa and South America from a biological point of view. The book provides an up-to-date comparative view of their flora and fauna, and summarizes current knowledge about the biogeographical relationships among major groups of organisms
Tropical Forest Healers and Habitat Preference
The scope of hunter-gatherer ethnomedicine
Landscape legacies of the African diaspora in Brazil
Geographers have been reticent on the role of the African diaspora in the contouring of Brazil's biological and cultural landscapes. Whereas paradigm shifts have occurred in regards to environmental stability in the tropical realm and the pristine nature of pre-Columbian landscapes, these have not translated to a rigorous reassessment of the geographical position of Africans and their descendants as active agents in landscape evolution. In this a…
Forgetting the Forest
Disturbance Pharmacopoeias
The much‐publicized quest for miracle drug plants in tropical rainforests has provided compelling support for the preservationist agenda. This article questions the assumptions that underpin this claim, particularly the myth that pristine forest represents the primary repository of nature's medicinal providence. After tracing colonial European efforts at medicinal plant discovery, intellectual property exploitation, and plant transference and acc…
Dusun Ethnobotany
Ethnobotanical knowledge constitutes a primary nexus of nature and culture within traditional, subsistence societies. This paper examines the ethnobotanical knowledge domain and naming system maintained by the Dusun of northern Borneo (Brunei), a swidden cultivating group. Two elderly male Dusun collaborated in a census of old-growth and disturbed forest habitats. They identified and named 244 species, of which 87% serve either material or magica…
Are women reservoirs of traditional plant knowledge? Gender, ethnobotany and globalization in northeast Brazil
This study examines the degree to which knowledge of traditional plant medicine is gendered among communities settled near Chapada Diamantina National Park in eastern Bahia state, northeast Brazil. Employing a quantitative analysis of a sample plant pharmacopoeia, I focus on the relationship between gender, age and the socioeconomic impacts of globalization in this tropical region. Results indicate that women are more familiar with both the field…
African Ethnobotany in the Americas
Mollusks of Candomblé
Human societies utilize mollusks for myriad material and spiritual ends. An example of their use in a religious context is found in Brazil's African-derived belief systems. Candomblé, an Afro-Brazilian religion introduced during the 18th-19thcenturies by enslaved Yoruba, includes various magical and liturgical uses of mollusks. This work inventoried the species utilized by adherents and to analyzed their symbolic and magical context. Data were ob…
Animals for the Gods
Spiritual Flora of Brazil’s African Diaspora
Candomblé was introduced to Brazil by enslaved and free West Africans in the early nineteenth century. One dimension of the religion is a profound association between a pantheon of deities (the orixás) and a pharmacopoeia of magico-medicinal plants. This article explores the means by which the black diaspora was able to organize an African-inspired spiritual ethno-flora in the Americas. I argue that a cornucopia of esculent and medicinal plants h…
Cannabis
Robert C. Clarke and Mark D. Merlin. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013. xv and 452 pp., maps, timeline, and index. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 9780520270480).The end of the war on weed is i
The Cultural Value of Invasive Species
Ethnomedicinal survey of a maroon community in Brazil's Atlantic tropical forest
Ethnobotany
Ethnobotany is the study of the dynamic relationship between plants and people. Considerable ethnobotanical inquiry focuses on the search for commercially valuable botanical products, especially medicines, but the field is becoming increasingly conceptual and problem oriented. Researchers explore the processes of crop domestication and diffusion, as well as indigenous plant‐naming systems. They investigate the strategies employed by rural subsist…
The Gradual Loss of African Indigenous Vegetables in Tropical America
God's healing leaves
The colonial era witnessed a fevered quest for exotic medicinal plants by European physicians and scientists. This essay explores the geographical principles that oriented the search towards the lands and peoples of the humid tropics. Believing that God had planted botanical cures for diseases in their places of origin, medicinal plant collectors concentrated their efforts in the pestilential equatorial latitudes. Although many subscribed to the …
Uses, Knowledge, and Management of the Threatened Pepper-Bark Tree (Warburgia salutaris) in Southern Mozambique
Mixtec taxonomy
Background: Ethnotaxonomy seeks to understand how members of a culture name and categorize biological organisms in their local language. This research examined the ethnotaxonomy of plants among the Mixtec people in the municipality of San Miguel el Grande, Oaxaca, Mexico.Methods: We conducted a collaborative research between 2019 and 2020 with 42 Mixtec men and women between 38 and 100 years of age, in the ten communities that make up the municip…
A Reply to Pierotti’s (2018) Review of “Evolutionary Ethnobiology”
Are Mixtec Forgetting Their Plants? Intracultural Variation of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in Oaxaca, Mexico
Sacred Leaves of Candomblé
Note on Orthography Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Bahian Landscape 3. Indians and Africans 4. Religion of the Orixas 5. Candomble Medicine 6. Medicinal Plant Classification 7. The Candomble Flora 8. African Religion in the Americas Appendix 1 Candomble Species List Appendix 2 House Abo for Three Candomble Terreiros Notes Glossary References Cited General Index Index of Scientific Names
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