{"product_id":"plant-kin-a-multispecies-ethnography-in-indigenous-brazil-hardback-9781477317396","title":"Plant Kin; A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil (Hardback) 9781477317396","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlant Kin\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTheresa L. Miller (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477317396, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 May 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 52 color photos, 6 b\u0026amp;w photos, 5 b\u0026amp;w illus., 2 b\u0026amp;w maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.668 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFascinating...\u003ci\u003ePlant Kin\u003c\/i\u003e offers a glimmer of hope in the Anthropocene of the possibilities of alternative and sustainable engagements with plants and their ecologies.\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE) \u003cdiv\u003eTheresa Miller presents a thoughtful portrayal of shifting ideas about the human place both in the world and in relation to plants in our era of changing climate...Each chapter on its own could be read as a unique contribution; taken collectively, they convey what she calls a sensory ethnobotany perspective that is interdisciplinary in scope...\u003ci\u003ePlant Kin\u003c\/i\u003e pays careful attention to what Canela indigenous people say and do in order to survive in a changing world that has long seen both the people and their places as sacrifice zones to be scoured for resources to feed global wealth.\u003c\/div\u003e (American Ethnologist) \u003cdiv\u003e[\u003ci\u003ePlant Kin\u003c\/i\u003e] contributes a thorough investigation of traditional ecological knowledge in a specific community and provides an in-depth example of the sociocultural processes that promote agrobiodiversity maintenance among a particular group and key group members. As such, it is a great resource for students of ethnobotany and related fields interested in relationships between cultural and biological diversity.\u003c\/div\u003e (Economic Botany) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePlant Kin\u003c\/i\u003e is a rigorously researched and carefully construed multispecies ethnography that focuses on the Indigenous Canela of the Brazilian Cerrado or savanna environment...Overall, the book is well-written and well-paced. The use of qualitative ethnographic material and testimonies from interlocutors interspersed with the author's own prose make for a lively and captivating read.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Latin American Geography) \u003cdiv\u003e[\u003ci\u003ePlant Kin\u003c\/i\u003e's] introduction, five chapters, and short conclusion are rich with ethnographic examples, highlighting resilience, multisensory care and multispecies relationships...In \u003ci\u003ePlant Kin\u003c\/i\u003e, Miller provides a well-written ethnography...it would interest students and scholars in anthropology, ethnobotany, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, and Latin American studies.\u003c\/div\u003e (Environment and Society)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 environmental threats, Canela women and men work to maintain riverbank and forest gardens and care for their growing crops, whom they consider to be, literally, children. This nurturing, loving relationship between people and plants-which offers a thought-provoking model for supporting multispecies survival and well-being throughout the world-is the focus of \u003ci\u003ePlant Kin\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheresa L. Miller shows how kinship develops between Canela people and plants through intimate, multi-sensory, and embodied relationships. Using an approach she calls “sensory ethnobotany,” Miller explores the Canela bio-sociocultural life-world, including Canela landscape aesthetics, ethnobotanical classification, mythical storytelling, historical and modern-day gardening practices, transmission of ecological knowledge through an education of affection for plant kin, shamanic engagements with plant friends and lovers, and myriad other human-nonhuman experiences. This multispecies ethnography reveals the transformations of Canela human-environment and human-plant engagements over the past two centuries and envisions possible futures for this Indigenous multispecies community as it reckons with the rapid environmental and climatic changes facing the Brazilian Cerrado as the Anthropocene epoch unfolds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Toward a Sensory Ethnobotany in the Anthropocene \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApproaching People and Plants in the Anthropocene\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApproaching Sensory Ethnobotany\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroducing the Canela People\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroducing the Plant Kin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFollowing the Pathways of This Book\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. \u003cbr\u003eTracing Indigenous Landscape Aesthetics in the Changing Cerrado \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTracing a Canela Aesthetics of Land\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderstanding the Canela Bio-Sociocultural Life-World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderstanding the Changing Cerrado\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApproaching the Canela Territorial Landscape\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecoming Resilient: Living with and Valuing the Land\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. \u003cbr\u003eLoving Gardens: Human–\u003cbr\u003eEnvironment Engagements in Past and Present-- \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderstanding Indigenous Landscape Transformations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGardening: A Brief History, 1814–\u003cbr\u003ePresent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLoving Forest and Riverbank Gardens in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearning from Star-Woman: Origins of Horticulture and Biodiversity Maintenance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGardening as Resistance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. \u003cbr\u003eEducating Affection: Becoming Gardener Parents \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParenting Plants: Skills, Practice, Process\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLearning, Knowing, and Feeling with Plants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderstanding Gendered Multispecies Bodies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaretaking of Plant Children: The Experts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecoming Strong, Becoming Happy, Becoming Well\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaking and Growing with Plant Kin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. \u003cbr\u003eNaming Plant Children: Ethnobotanical Classification as Childcare \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCategorizing Plants: Sensory Pleasures\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNoticing, Naming, Sorting, and Saving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpanding Multispecies Families\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting: Plant Childcare in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMultispecies Loving, Open Taxonomies, and Living Lists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. \u003cbr\u003eBecoming a Shaman with Plants: Friendship, Seduction, and Mediating Danger \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTalking with Plants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecoming a Shaman: Engagements with Nonhumans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShamanic Caring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShamanic Mediating: Dangers in the Gardens\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBecoming Friends to Plants in Canela Scalar Animism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: Exploring Futures for People and Plants in the Twenty-First Century \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAdvocating for Sensory Ethnobotany in Multispecies Futures\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendices \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix A: Living Lists of Canela Cultivated Crops\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix B: Living Lists of Canela Native Plants in Savannah, Chapada, and Riverbank\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix C: Star-Woman (CaxÊ\u003cbr\u003etikwỳj) Mythic Story\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReferences\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52589128548632,"sku":"9781477317396","price":56.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/plant-kin-a-multispecies-ethnography-in-indigenous-brazil-hardback-9781477317396","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}