Plant kin : a multispecies ethnography in indigenous Brazil /

"The Indigenous Canela inhabit a vibrant multispecies community of nearly 3,000 people and over 300 types of cultivated and wild plants living together in Maranhão State in the Brazilian Cerrado (savannah), a biome threatened with deforestation and climate change. In the face of these environm...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Miller, Theresa L. (Theresa Lynn), 1985- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019
Series:Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 45.
Subjects:
Canella Indians > Ethnobotany.
Cerrado ecology > Brazil.
Sustainable living > Brazil.
Human-plant relationships > Brazil.
Traditional ecological knowledge > Brazil.
Canella > Ethnobotanique.
Écologie des cerrados > Brésil.
Style de vie durable > Brésil.
Relations homme-plante > Brésil.
Savoirs écologiques traditionnels > Brésil.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Botany.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Cerrado ecology
Human-plant relationships
Sustainable living
Traditional ecological knowledge
Brazil
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Toward a sensory ethnobotany in the Anthropocene
  • Tracing indigenous landscape aesthetics in the changing Cerrado
  • Loving gardens : human-environment engagements in past and present
  • Educating affection : becoming gardener parents
  • Naming plant children : ethnobotanical classification as childcare
  • Becoming a shaman with plants : friendship, seduction, and mediating danger
  • Exploring futures for people and plants in the twenty-first century

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