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Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai'i.
- Source :
- Journal of Ethnobiology; Mar2024, Vol. 44 Issue 1, p11-22, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- In this article, I use the concept of 'plant-people intimacies' for the social-mediated web of cognitions, rituals, affects and embodied memories that connect some human groups and some plant species. I test the concept in the transformed landscapes of plantation Hawai'i, where sugar canes, pineapples and other crops replaced the traditional taro gardens and displaced their human gardeners while producing a multi-ethnic population with migrant workers-settlers. I will analyse how evocations of special bonds to some crops among diasporic persons express a vegetal nexus with ancestral geographies and act as a code to negotiate social and historical positionalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02780771
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Ethnobiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176210752
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/02780771231221643