Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Pursuit of Plumes -- CHAPTER 1 The Cape of Southern Africa: Atlantic Crossings -- CHAPTER 2 London: Global Feather Hub -- CHAPTER 3 The Trans-Saharan Trade: Mediterranean Connections -- CHAPTER 4 The American Feather World -- Conclusion: Global Stories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Prologue: The lost archive -- Introduction: inventing indigeneity -- Anthropology and the ghost of the colonial past -- Jews northern and southern: the French annexation of the Mzab and the boundaries of colonial law -- Governing typologies: from the conquest of the Mzab to the Touggourt/Dreyfus affair -- Contested access: conscription, public health, and education from the fin de siècle through the interwar period -- Saharan battlegrounds: from the Vichy regime to a postwar world -- Oil, the Algerian war of independence, and competing stories of departure -- Conclusion: colonial shadows -- Epilogue: dark matter.
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The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War. When feathers fell out of fashion with consumers, the result was an economic catastrophe for many, a worldwide feather bust. The authors draws on rich archival materials to bring to light the prominent and varied roles of Jews in the feather trade.
AbstractThis article traces the genealogy of a Jewish-owned botánica located in East Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s. Botánicas are understood to manifest an intricate, transatlantic religious, spiritual, and healing world, offering herbal products, sacramental goods, ritual implements, and counseling to Italian, Latinx, Black, and Caribbean practitioners of folk Catholicism, herbalism, hoodoo, Vodou, Santería, Espiritismo, Curanderismo, Òrìṣà worship and other ethnomedical and spiritual systems. Yet this botánica was owned by an Eastern Mediterranean Jew from the Ottoman/Italian island of Rhodes, and it integrated Sephardic and Mediterranean histories and sources of inspiration. Extraordinarily, this history stands for a greater whole. Jews were pioneering spiritual merchants in the United States. Restoring their history requires journeying globally, beginning with Ottomans' fidelity to herbalism; tracing émigré Sephardic Jews' uneven dialogue with Black African men and women in colonial Central and Southern Africa; and delving into the commercial, spiritual, and racial interplay furthered by Jewish-owned pharmacies and botánicas in New York City, Baltimore, Atlanta, Memphis, Charleston, Chicago, and Los Angeles and by Jewish spiritual merchants and their Caribbean, Latinx, and Black patrons. All this introduces an unexpected Jewish and Mediterranean history to the botánica, and an unexpectedly multifarious spiritual, mercantile, and racial dimension to Jewish history.
