2023 #5 Cristina Brito (CHAM, NOVA FCSH), "People(s) and manatees in the early modern Atlantic: A marine environmental history approach"

RESUMO (EM INGLÊS)

Introducing approaches from marine environmental history and historical ecology to address extractions of Amazonian manatees in the early modern period. Part of the ERC Synergy Grant 4-OCEANS, seacows are a taxonomic group that was historically part of the daily life of different societies across the Atlantic and allows highlighting past uses, practices and perceptions about the marine environment. 4-OCEANS aims at providing an assessment of the importance of marine life to human societies during the last two millennia, with a focus on understanding the consequences of marine resource exploitation for societal development. 

SOBRE O ORADOR (EM INGLÊS)

Cristina Brito is Associate Professor at the History Department at NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, and a researcher at CHAM - Center for the Humanities. She is currently the PI of two EEA Grants Bilateral Funds Initiatives and the co-PI of the ERC Synergy Grant 4-OCEANS: Human History of Marine Life (2021-2027). 

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