Suzanne Hanchett

Plants and People: Karnataka Rites of Passage (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Plants and People is a close examination of the ways in which plant life and human life are intertwined in two rural villages of Hassan District, Karnataka State, India, via the symbolic uses of plants in of rites of passage. After presenting a general overview of South Asian cultural traditions related to symbolic uses of plants and basic ethnobotany concepts, the book describes rites of passage of multiple castes birth, maturation, marriage, pregnancy, death, and rituals for ancestors and ferocious goddesses. A discussion of key plants and ritual themes follows. One annex discusses ways that the Kannada language classifies plants and plant parts. The authors conducted ethnographic research in Karnataka in 1966-67. A follow-up 1976-77 study of plants by Suzanne Hanchett analyzed folk taxonomy, local understandings of plant types and plant parts. Includes photos and other illustrations, a Bibliography, Glossary of botanical and Kannada plant names, and an Index.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: shanchett
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798986876931
• Artikelnr.: 69986877

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Hanchett is a social anthropologist with a doctorate from Columbia University. She is a Partner in the consulting firm, Planning Alternatives for Change LLC and a Researcher at the Center for Political Ecology. She has done basic and applied research on social structure, gender, and poverty-related issues in Bangladesh, India, and several other countries. She is the author of a book on symbolism of home-centered Hindu myths and rituals in Karnataka State, India (1988). Since 1997, she has been working with water and sanitation programs and arsenic mitigation projects. She has served as Team Leader for several applied studies conducted together with the other authors.