The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, Pablo F. Gomez

Автор: Kit Candlin, Cassandra Pybus
Название: Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic
ISBN: 0820353876 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820353876
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the nearby colony of Demerara. What made the transaction notable was that Betty was Dorothy Thomas’s mother and that fifteen years earlier Dorothy had purchased her own freedom and that of her children. Although she was just one remove from bondage, Dorothy Thomas managed to become so rich and powerful that she was known as the Queen of Demerara.Dorothy Thomas’s story is but one of the remarkable acounts of pluck and courage recovered in Enterprising Women. As the microbiographies in this book reveal, free women of color in Britain’s Caribbean colonies were not merely the dependent concubines of the white male elite, as is commonly assumed. In the capricious world of the slave colonies during the age of revolutions, some of them were able to rise to dizzying heights of success. These highly entrepreneurial women exercised remarkable mobility and developed extensive commercial and kinship connections in the metropolitan heart of empire while raising well-educated children who were able to penetrate deep into British life.

Автор: Gomez Pablo F.
Название: The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic
ISBN: 1469630877 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469630878
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Описание: Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially-based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gomez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as it relates to well-known frameworks for the study of science and medicine.

Drawing on an array of governmental and ecclesiastical sources—notably Inquisition records—Gomez highlights more than one hundred black ritual practitioners regarded as masters of healing practices and as social and spiritual leaders. He shows how they developed evidence-based healing principles based on sensorial experience rather than on dogma. He elucidates how they nourished ideas about the universality of human bodies, which contributed to the rise of empirical testing of disease origins and cures. Both colonial authorities and Caribbean people of all conditions viewed this experiential knowledge as powerful and competitive. In some ways, it served to respond to the ills of slavery. Even more crucial, however, it demonstrates how the black Atlantic helped creatively to fashion the early modern world.

Автор: Crawford Matthew James, Gabriel Joseph M.
Название: Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World
ISBN: 0822945622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822945628
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Examining the Circulation, Commodification, and Organization of Healing Goods and Healing Knowledge

Автор: Herrmann Rachel B.
Название: To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic
ISBN: 1682260828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682260821
Издательство: Turpin
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Описание: Exploring what it meant to accuse someone of eating people as well as how cannibalism rumours facilitated slavery and the rise of empires, To Feast on Us as Their Prey posits that it is impossible to separate histories of cannibalism from the role food and hunger have played in the colonization efforts that shaped our modern world.

Автор: Leonard Adrian, Pretel David
Название: The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy: Circuits of Trade, Money and Knowledge, 1650-1914
ISBN: 1137432713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137432711
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the `Old World` countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries.

Автор: Leong Elaine
Название: Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England
ISBN: 022658366X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226583662
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by teams of householders, including masters and servants, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters, and fathers and sons. This much-sought know-how was written into notebooks of various shapes and sizes forming "treasuries for health," each personalized to suit the whims and needs of individual communities.

In Recipes and Everyday Knowledge, Elaine Leong situates recipe knowledge and practices among larger questions of gender and cultural history, the history of the printed word, and the history of science, medicine, and technology. The production of recipes and recipe books, she argues, were at the heart of quotidian investigations of the natural world or "household science". She shows how English homes acted as vibrant spaces for knowledge making and transmission, and explores how recipe trials allowed householders to gain deeper understandings of sickness and health, of the human body, and of natural and human-built processes. By recovering this story, Leong extends the parameters of natural inquiry and productively widens the cast of historical characters participating in and contributing to early modern science.

Название: Archival Afterlives: Life, Death, and Knowledge-Making in Early Modern British Scientific and Medical Archives
ISBN: 9004324291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004324299
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. If early modern natural philosophers claimed all knowledge as their province, theirs was a paper empire. But how and why did naturalists engage with archives, and in particular, with the papers of their dead predecessors? This volume makes a firm case for expanding what counts as scientific labour, integrating scribes, archivist, library keepers, editors, and friends and family of deceased naturalists into the history of science. It shows how early modern natural philosophers pursued new natural knowledge in dialogue with their recent material past. Finally, it demonstrates the sustaining importance of archival institutions in the growth and development of the “New Sciences.” Contributors are: Arnold Hunt, Michael Hunter, Vera Keller, Carol Pal, Anna Marie Roos, Richard Serjeantson, Victoria Sloyan, Alison Walker, and Elizabeth Yale.

Автор: Luttfring Sara D.
Название: Bodies, Speech, and Reproductive Knowledge in Early Modern England
ISBN: 1138849421 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138849426
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This volume examines early modern representations of women’s reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatises, court records, histories, and more, which are often interpreted as depicting female reproductive bodies as passive, silenced objects of male control and critique. Luttfring argues instead that these texts represent women exercising epistemological control over reproduction through the stories they tell about their bodies and the ways they act these stories out, combining speech and physical performance into what Luttfring calls 'bodily narratives.' The power of these bodily narratives extends beyond knowledge of individual bodies to include the ways that women’s stories about reproduction shape the patriarchal identities of fathers, husbands, and kings. In the popular print and theater of early modern England, women’s bodies, women’s speech, and in particular women’s speech about their bodies perform socially constitutive work: constructing legible narratives of lineage and inheritance; making and unmaking political alliances; shaping local economies; and defining/delimiting male socio-political authority in medical, royal, familial, judicial, and economic contexts. This book joins growing critical discussion of how female reproductive bodies were used to represent socio-political concerns and will be of interest to students and scholars working in early modern literature and culture, women’s history, and the history of medicine.