Michael Sheridan

Roots of Power (eBook, PDF)

The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Roots of Power tells five stories of plants, people, property, politics, peace, and protection in tropical societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000872019
• Artikelnr.: 67468732

Autorenporträt

Michael Sheridan teaches anthropology and environmental studies at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Inhaltsangabe

Chap 1 Introduction: Approaching the Boundary
Multi-sited ethnography
Political ecology
Ethnobotany
Institutions
Outline of the book
Chap 2 Beating the Bounds for Boundary Plants
Structure, territory, and tenure
From structure to process
Symbolic boundary processes
Monomarcation and polymarcation
The spatial turn
The plant and multispecies turns
The ontological turn
Re-turning to political economy
Conclusion
Chap 3 Tanzania: Knots of Peace on Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro as a social-ecological system
Living land tenure
Ancestors in the landscape
Knots of peace, order, and meaning
Conclusion
Chap 4 Cameroon: Bounded Vitality and Rank in the Oku Monarchy
Oku as a social-ecological system
Boundary plants and land tenure in Oku
Social organization and boundary plants on patrol
Masquerades, witchcraft, and life-force in Oku
Life flowing through boundary plants
Conclusion
Chap 5 Papua New Guinea: Embodying Places, Emplacing Bodies
The vegecultures of Oceania
Papua New Guinea as a social-ecological system
Cordyline as a botanica franca
Mapping social relations with boundary plants
Beauty, place, and order
Conclusion
Chap 6 French Polynesia: Rank and Revitalization in the Society Islands
Vegecultures and social ranking in Remote Oceania
The Society Islands as social-ecological systems
Boundary plants and monuments to hierarchy
The conjunctures of cordyline and colonialism
Revitalized boundaries in a new society
Decentralized protection and power
Conclusion
Chap 7 St Vincent: Dragons in a Postslavery Peasant Society
Boundary plants in the Plantationocene
St. Vincent as a social-ecological system
Boundary struggles in the provision grounds
The social organization of dragons
The red dragon is the guide
Conclusion
Chap 8 Conclusion: Beyond Boundaries
Methods revisited
Boundaries and routes of power in the past
Boundary plants and the roots of power today
Beyond the bounds
References