LEADER 02985nam 22004935 450 001 996543165903316 005 20231005200905.0 010 $a90-485-4485-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9789048544851 035 $a(CKB)27676628500041 035 $a(DE-B1597)658548 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789048544851 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30623752 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30623752 035 $a(OCoLC)1376300898 035 $a(EXLCZ)9927676628500041 100 $a20230808h20232023 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHumans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa /$fCristina Brito 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cAmsterdam University Press,$d[2023] 210 4$dİ2023 215 $a1 online resource (270 pages) 225 1 $aEnvironmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures ;$v8. 311 $a9789463728218 327 $tFrontmatter --$tTable of contents --$tList of figures --$tAcknowledgements --$tIntroduction --$t1. The case of Matto, the manatee --$t2. Cosmogonies, aquatic deities, and water myths of origin --$t3. Aquatic monsters : From imaginary animals to sharks, caimans, and sea lions --$t4. Beliefs about and practices in nature : From living creatures to resources and symbols --$t5. (Early) modern ?naturecultures? : A co?constructed narrative of the world --$tIndex 330 $aThis book deals with peoples? practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern Atlantic coasts by addressing exploitation, use, fear, empathy, otherness, and indifference in the relationships established with aquatic environments and resources by Indigenous Peoples and Europeans. It focuses on large aquatic fauna, especially manatees (but also sharks, sea turtles, seals, and others) as they were hunted, consumed, venerated, conceptualised, and recorded by different societies across the early colonial Americas and West Africa. Through a cross-cultural approach drawing on concepts and analytical methods from marine environmental history, the blue humanities and animal studies, this book addresses more-than-human systems where ecologies, geographies, cosmogonies, and cultures are an entangled web of interdependencies. 410 0$aEnvironmental humanities in pre-modern cultures. 606 $aHistory$zAfrica 607 $aAfrica$vHistory 610 $aEarly modern Americas, Marine environmental history, Marine animals studies, Practices and Perceptions, Indigenous Peoples. 615 0$aHistory 676 $a591.96 700 $aBrito$b Cristina$f1975-$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01426640 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996543165903316 996 $aHumans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa$93558512 997 $aUNISA