dc.contributor.author | Gibson, Diana | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-11T09:12:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-11T09:12:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Gibson, D. (2018). Rethinking medicinal plants and plant medicines. Anthropology Southern Africa, 41(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2017.1415154 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2332-3264 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2017.1415154 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/7073 | |
dc.description.abstract | Because plants are perceived as sessile and immobile, they are often represented as objects or
things in current literature. In this paper, I explore variations and shifts in research and literature
since 2000 that reconsider the ways that plant-related ideas, expertise and practices intersect in
multiple associations related to medicinal plants. I argue that, in their relationship with humans,
plants have histories, are mobile and can also bring about political and other effects. I use
ethnographic material from Namibia and the Western Cape of South Africa to review medicinal
plants, by focusing on human-plant relations and the incorporation of plants as non-human
subjects with non-intentional agency. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | National Inquiry Services Centre | en_US |
dc.subject | Agency | en_US |
dc.subject | Interdisciplinary | en_US |
dc.subject | Knowledge | en_US |
dc.subject | Medicinal plants | en_US |
dc.subject | Non-human | en_US |
dc.title | Rethinking medicinal plants and plant medicines | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |