Picturing the River’s Racial Ecologies in Colonial Panamá
This article explores the local histories and ecological knowledge embedded within a Spanish print of enslaved, Afro-descendant boatmen charting a wooden vessel up the Chagres River across the Isthmus of Panamá. Produced for a 1748 travelogue by the Spanish scientists Antonio de Ulloa and Jorge Juan...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-04-01
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| Series: | Arts |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/10/2/22 |