TY  - BOOK
AU  - Attala,Luci
AU  - Steel,Louise
TI  - Plants matter: exploring the becomings of plants and people
T2  - Materialities in anthropology and archaeology
SN  - 1837720509
AV  - QK46.5.H85 P54 2023
U1  - 581.6/3 23/eng/20231009
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cardiff
PB  - University of Wales Press
KW  - Human-plant relationships
KW  - Ethnobotany
KW  - Relations homme-plante
KW  - Relaciones hombre planta
KW  - embne
KW  - Etnobot�anica
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction : talking of (and with) (the materiality of) plants -- The materiality of plants : plant–people entanglements -- Plants as medicine in the anthropocene -- The world tree : humans, trees and creation on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta -- Composing with plants : discerning their call -- The matter of knowing plant medicine as ecology : from vegetal philosophy and plant science to tea tasting in the anthropocene -- Escaping to the garden and tasting life -- ‘The crop that ruled our lives’ : memories of tobacco among former growers in Australia
N2  - "Plants Matter explores how plants and people live together. This is not only a book about the importance of plants and how people use them, but it argues also that knowing the world is achieved-with plants. In addition to populating the landscape, plants alter human physiology in multiple material ways, through gatherings or through sensorial conversations using the chemistry of taste, perfume, colour, sound and textures. The chapters gathered in this volume offer a range of interdisciplinary perspectives that use ethnographic and ethnobotanical information to explore how the behaviours and capacities of certain plants around the world have enticed, excited and even seduced people to pay attention"--
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