%0 Journal Article
%T Construcci車n de la cultura de apreciaci車n de la fruta: aporte de Las mil y una noches Building the culture of appreciation of the fruit: contribution of Arabian Nights
%A Pablo Lacoste
%A Amalia Castro
%A Jos谷 Antonio Yuri
%J Varia Historia
%D 2012
%I Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
%X Este art赤culo examina al aporte de los 芍rabes al proceso de construcci車n de la cultura de apreciaci車n de la fruta y los frutales. Se avanz車 en esa direcci車n no s車lo mediante la incorporaci車n y propagaci車n de las plantas, particularmente desde Al Andalus, sino tambi谷n con su puesta en valor en la cultura universal, a trav谷s de Las mil y una noches. Si los bot芍nicos y agr車nomos andalus赤es aportaron avances cient赤ficos sobre las plantas frutales y la forma de cultivarlas y aprovecharlas, los relatos literarios de la cultura isl芍mica complementaron la acci車n de aquellos, al situar las frutas y los frutales en el centro del imaginario social, en los lugares de mayor prestigio (jardines, palacios, salones) y asociarlos a la sensualidad, la belleza y el placer. This article examines what the Muslim world contributed to the materialization of a cultural appraisal of fruits and the trees that bear them. This contribution was not only carried out through the propagation and incorporation of these plants, particularly from Al Andalus, but also by providing them with considerable cultural significance with their inclusion in Arabian Nights. While Andalusian botanists and agronomists achieved significant scientific breakthroughs in the methods involved in the cultivation and proper utilization of fruit trees, Muslim literary tales complimented these developments by placing both fruits and fruit trees in the cultural spotlight, in highly prominent locations (gardens, palaces, halls) and by bonding them with sensuality, beauty and pleasure. Muslims acted as biocultural intermediaries.
%K intermediadores bioculturales
%K historia de la fruticultura
%K apreciaci車n de la fruta
%K Las mil y una noches
%K biocultural intermediaries
%K fruit culture history
%K fruit appreciation
%K Arabian Nights
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