Planthropology
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The study of plants in order to understand their relationships to humans and human culture.
"We must get to know plants intimately and on their terms. And so we need a planthropology (Myers 2015a) to document the affective ecologies taking shape between plants and people, to learn to listen to their demands for unpaved land and for a time outside of the rhythms of capitalist extraction."
Example
More examples"We must get to know plants intimately and on their terms. And so we need a planthropology (Myers 2015a) to document the affective ecologies taking shape between plants and people, to learn to listen to their demands for unpaved land and for a time outside of the rhythms of capitalist extraction."
Etymology
Coined by anthropologist Natasha Myers, from plant + anthropology
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