Ethnobotanies of Refusal
Methodologies in Respecting Plant(ed)-Human Resistance
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8034.2021.e80434Abstract
This article examines the scholarly moment of the "Botanical Turn" or what Natasha Myers has called "The Plant Turn" (2015) in North American anthropology and philosophy. It represents an opportunity to highlight the legacy and continued contributions of indigenous cosmologies to social theory, underlining how people within-and-without Western thought have long thought about "becoming-with" plants. Considering the disciplinary as well as the political ramifications of botanico-human relations when plant healers and practitioners go largely un-cited in these scholarly discussions, this article engages multiple thinkers: Audra Simpson on ethnographic refusal, Emilia Sanabria on Ayahuasca and the psychedelic sciences, Michel-Rolph Trouillot on the 'Savage Slot', Zoe Todd's critique of citational practices and continued erasure of indigenous thinkers, Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert's joint effort, as well as the work of Natasha Myers and Michael Marder. The analysis frames possible approaches in ethnobotanies and methodologies of refusal to respecting plant(ed)-human resistance.
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