{"product_id":"steeped-in-heritage-9780822369936","title":"Steeped in Heritage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring the racial and environmental politics behind South Africa’s rooibos tea industry to examine heritage-based claims to the indigenous plant by two groups of contested indigeneity: white Afrikaners and “coloured” South Africans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ives provides an accessible and interesting perspective on the complex, ongoing issue of race relations within South Africa. Recommended.\" -- C. W. Herrick * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSteeped in Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent and highly recommendable account. Offers wonderful scope for comparison.” -- Annika Teppo * Anthropological Forum *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSteeped in Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e is likely to be of interest to any scholar interested in anthro-ecological interactions, racial politics, questions of self-hood and belonging, or simply interested in finding meaning in the tealeaves left at the bottom of their cup.” -- Sarah Bradley * Journal of Ecological Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e“A nuanced and theoretically engaged analysis. \u003ci\u003eSteeped in Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e offers a novel contribution to a long tradition of deeply ethnographic political ecology scholarship. This book will interest scholars working on a vast range of issues including indigeneity, environmental change, climate change, agricultural labor, identity politics, multispecies relationships, place-based products, and African studies.” -- Emma McDonell * Journal of Political Ecology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Compelling and prescient . . . \u003ci\u003eSteeped in Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a fascinating exploration of the dynamics surrounding identity and its ties to things and places in a racist, capitalist context.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Aran Mackinnon * African Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSteeped in Heritage \u003c\/i\u003eis thorough and well-thought-out . . . Excellent and highly recommendable.\" -- Annika Teppo * Anthropological Forum *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSteeped in Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating and well-written account that refreshingly avoids the dominant paradigms associated with climate change. . . . Instead, it gives us a much-needed analysis of ecological change as a thoroughly social process, inseparable from local politics, which are dominated by structures of race and class. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary politics of southern Africa or the future of food in a time of ecological crisis.\" -- Elizabeth Hull * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"A nuanced, elegantly written study of what it means to own and profit off a crop and the land that sustains it. Ives writes in a lyrical fashion, using the metaphors of cultivation, steeping and sipping to create an interpretive framework. . . . In this vital study of plants and people, commodities and labourers, Ives centres her discussion on the supply side to show where the tea we drink is made.\" -- Abena Dove Osseo-Asare * Journal of Modern African Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSteeped in Heritage\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fresh perspective on the post-apartheid situation of race relations and identity in South Africa while offering insight into the precarious rooibos economy of the Western Cape region. This book is multidisciplinary and will especially benefit those interested in South African studies, food economies, and cultural and regional identities that derive from commodity production.” -- Gina Covert Benavidez * Journal of Global South Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The \"Rooibos Revolution\"  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Cultivating Indigeneity  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Farming the Bush  65\u003cbr\u003e 3. Endemic Plants and Invasive People  96\u003cbr\u003e 4. Rumor, Conspiracy, and the Politics of Narration  134\u003cbr\u003e 5. Precarious Landscapes  173\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. \"Although There Is No Place Called Rooibos\"  210\u003cbr\u003e Notes  217\u003cbr\u003e References  229\u003cbr\u003e Index  245","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406107156823,"sku":"9780822369936","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822369936.jpg?v=1730494554","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/steeped-in-heritage-9780822369936","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}