Theresa L. Miller

Plant Kin

A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using sensory ethnobotany to understand people-plant relationships and gardening practices in the Brazilian Cerrado, this multispecies ethnography presents a non-Western approach to environmental conservation and resilience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781477317402
• ISBN-10: 1477317406
• Artikelnr.: 53849542

Autorenporträt

By Theresa L. Miller

Inhaltsangabe

1. List of Illustrations
2. Introduction: Toward a Sensory Ethnobotany in the Anthropocene
* Approaching People and Plants in the Anthropocene
* Approaching Sensory Ethnobotany
* Introducing the Canela People
* Introducing the Plant Kin
* Following the Pathways of This Book
3. 1. Tracing Indigenous Landscape Aesthetics in the Changing Cerrado
* Tracing a Canela Aesthetics of Land
* Understanding the Canela Bio-Sociocultural Life-World
* Understanding the Changing Cerrado
* Approaching the Canela Territorial Landscape
* Becoming Resilient: Living with and Valuing the Land
4. 2. Loving Gardens: Human–Environment Engagements in Past and Present--
* Understanding Indigenous Landscape Transformations
* Gardening: A Brief History, 1814–Present
* Loving Forest and Riverbank Gardens in the Twenty-First Century
* Learning from Star-Woman: Origins of Horticulture and Biodiversity
Maintenance
* Gardening as Resistance
5. 3. Educating Affection: Becoming Gardener Parents
* Parenting Plants: Skills, Practice, Process
* Learning, Knowing, and Feeling with Plants
* Understanding Gendered Multispecies Bodies
* Caretaking of Plant Children: The Experts
* Becoming Strong, Becoming Happy, Becoming Well
* Making and Growing with Plant Kin
6. 4. Naming Plant Children: Ethnobotanical Classification as Childcare
* Categorizing Plants: Sensory Pleasures
* Noticing, Naming, Sorting, and Saving
* Expanding Multispecies Families
* Writing: Plant Childcare in the Twenty-First Century
* Multispecies Loving, Open Taxonomies, and Living Lists
7. 5. Becoming a Shaman with Plants: Friendship, Seduction, and Mediating
Danger
* Talking with Plants
* Becoming a Shaman: Engagements with Nonhumans
* Shamanic Caring
* Shamanic Mediating: Dangers in the Gardens
* Becoming Friends to Plants in Canela Scalar Animism
8. Conclusion: Exploring Futures for People and Plants in the Twenty-First
Century
* Advocating for Sensory Ethnobotany in Multispecies Futures
9. Epilogue
10. Acknowledgments
11. Appendices
* Appendix A: Living Lists of Canela Cultivated Crops
* Appendix B: Living Lists of Canela Native Plants in Savannah,
Chapada, and Riverbank
* Appendix C: Star-Woman (Caxêtikw¿j) Mythic Story
12. Notes
13. References
14. Index