João Barbosa Rodrigues and “Queen Rubber”: An innovative scientific culture

Abstract This work presents the history of rubber in the Amazon based on an article by João Barbosa Rodrigues. In his text, he emphasized the age of the traditional knowledge used by the native populations in the Americas to produce the various objects made from rubber. He showed how European scient...

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Published in:	Rodriguésia
Main Author:	Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro 2023-01-01
Subjects:	Amazon Barbosa Rodrigues environmental preservation rubber traditional knowledge
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2175-78602022000101005&tlng=en