{"product_id":"plant-kin-9781477317402","title":"Plant Kin","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\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. * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\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. * Economic Botany *\u003cbr\u003e\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. * Journal of Latin American Geography *\u003cbr\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. * Environment and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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. Tracing 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. Loving Gardens: Human–Environment Engagements in Past and Present-- \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnderstanding Indigenous Landscape Transformations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGardening: A Brief History, 1814–Present\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. Educating 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. Naming 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. Becoming 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 (Caxêtikwỳj) 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","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default 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