1st Edition
Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered
1. Locating Knowledge in Early Modern Brazil and India: A Comparative Study of Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) and Hortus Malabaricus (1678-1693)
Anjana Singh and Mariana Françozo
2. Portuguese Parallels: Comparing Analogous Efforts toward Codifying Indigenous Medicinal Knowledge in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Brazil
Timothy D. Walker
3. Cover to Cover: A Book Historical Approach to the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae
Alex Alsemgeest and Jeroen Bos
4. Searching for Copaiba: Tracing the Quest for a Wound-Healing Oil by Early Explorers in Brazil
Tinde van Andel, Mariana Françozo, and Mireia Alcantara Rodriguez
5. An Imaginary Brazilian Zoo: Traditions and Innovations in the Portrayal of Animals in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae
Annemarieke Willemsen
6. Marcgraf’s Fish in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae and the Rhetorics of Autoptic Testimony
Paul J. Smith
7. Reconnecting Knowledges: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae back to Indigenous Societies
Aline da Cruz and Walkíria Neiva Praça
Biography
Mariana Françozo is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her research stands at the intersection of anthropology and history and focuses on the collection and circulation of Indigenous objects and knowledge from Brazil to Europe, with special emphasis on the early modern period.
