Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil: The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered [Paperback]

1. Locating Knowledge in Early Modern Brazil and India: A Comparative Study of Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648) and Hortus Malabaricus (1678-1693)

2. Portuguese Parallels: Comparing Analogous Efforts toward Codifying Indigenous Medicinal Knowledge in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Brazil

3. Cover to Cover: A Book Historical Approach to the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae

4. Searching for Copaiba: Tracing the Quest for a Wound-Healing Oil by Early Explorers in Brazil

5. An Imaginary Brazilian Zoo: Traditions and Innovations in the Portrayal of Animals in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae

6. Marcgrafs Fish in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae and the Rhetorics of Autoptic Testimony

7. Reconnecting Knowledges: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae back to Indigenous Societies

This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines it from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints.

Mariana Fran?ozo 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 cirlÃr