Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil

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.

• 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 Françozo2. Portuguese Parallels: Comparing Analogous Efforts toward Codifying Indigenous Medicinal Knowledge in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Brazil Timothy D. Walker3. Cover to Cover: A Book Historical Approach to the Historia Naturalis BrasiliaeAlex Alsemgeest and Jeroen Bos4. Searching for Copaiba: Tracing the Quest for a Wound-Healing Oil by Early Explorers in BrazilTinde van Andel, Mariana Françozo, and Mireia Alcantara Rodriguez5. An Imaginary Brazilian Zoo: Traditions and Innovations in the Portrayal of Animals in the Historia Naturalis BrasiliaeAnnemarieke Willemsen6. Marcgraf’s Fish in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae and the Rhetorics of Autoptic Testimony Paul J. Smith7. Reconnecting Knowledges: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae back to Indigenous Societies Aline da Cruz and Walkíria Neiva Praça