Editorial: Amsterdam University Press
Colección: Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures
Número de páginas: 270 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 24-07-2023
EAN: 9789463728218
ISBN: 978-94-6372-821-8
Precio (sin IVA): 151,10 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 157,14 €
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.