Overview

This book redefines plants as more than something to be consumed by humans. Plants are often presented as resources for us to use. This book challenges that perspective by demonstrating other ways that plants matter. By turning away from the idea that humanity calls all the shots, this book reminds the reader that plants instrumentally influence and organize our lives by shaping choices and beliefs.  

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Author:   Luci Attala ,  Louise Steel
Publisher:   University of Wales Press
Imprint:   University of Wales Press
ISBN:  

9781837720484

ISBN 10:   1837720487
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   15 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements List of Contributors Preface 1 Introduction: Talking of (and with) (the Materiality of) Plants Luci Attala and Louise Steel 2 The Materiality of Plants: Plant–People Entanglements Marijke Van der Veen 3 Plants as Medicine in the Anthropocene Sarah E. Edwards 4 The World Tree: Humans, Trees and Creation on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Falk Parra Witte 5 Composing with Plants: Discerning their Call Julie Laplante and Kañaa 6 The Matter of Knowing Plant Medicine as Ecology: From Vegetal Philosophy and Plant Science to Tea Tasting in the Anthropocene Guy Waddell 7 Escaping to the Garden and Tasting Life Sarah Page 8 ‘The crop that ruled our lives’: Memories of Tobacco among Former Growers in Australia Andrew Russell Index

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""This book puts plants back among people and shows that paying attention to the people-plant relationship opens new ground for understanding the plant-filled world we live in.""-- ""Jeremy Narby, co-author of Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge (2021)"" ""What if plants were people who sense, discover, remember and decide just as people do? Who communicate amongst themselves, whose kith and kin are spread about, rooted in relations of filiation and descent, who breathe the wind and thirst for water? If only we humans could attend to what plants have to teach us, how much we could learn! Read this book, and find out for yourself.""-- ""Tim Ingold, emeritus professor of social anthropology, University of Aberdeen""

"""This book puts plants back among people and shows that paying attention to the people-plant relationship opens new ground for understanding the plant-filled world we live in.""-- ""Jeremy Narby, co-author of Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge (2021)"" ""What if plants were people who sense, discover, remember and decide just as people do? Who communicate amongst themselves, whose kith and kin are spread about, rooted in relations of filiation and descent, who breathe the wind and thirst for water? If only we humans could attend to what plants have to teach us, how much we could learn! Read this book, and find out for yourself.""-- ""Tim Ingold, emeritus professor of social anthropology, University of Aberdeen"""

Author Information

Luci Attala is a senior lecturer in anthropology and the director of UNESCO-BRIDGES Hub (UK). She is also one of the directors of Educere Alliance at Oxford University. Louise Steel is professor of Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is an associate director of UNESCO-BRIDGES Hub (UK). Both are series editors in New Materialities for the University of Wales Press.

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