TY - JOUR
T1 - Phytocommunicability and Cross-Species Sociality
AU - Schulthies, Becky
N1 - Funding Information: I thank all the participants, even those whose work does not appear in this volume, for informing and expanding my ideas about phytocommunicability. Although I intended to include an article of my own work in this volume, a series of events prevented me from doing so. Thanks to Dean Richard Schroeder of the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences for funding the conference, and the anthropology department students (especially Marian Thorpe) and faculty for their vigorous support. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - What vegetal modalities and botanic intertwinings situate cross-species communications and collectivities, and for whom? In much anthropological writing of previous eras, plants have served as a medium for analysing human sociality. Their ubiquitous presence and seemingly sessile silence, invisibility, anosmia and backgrounding have been one of the key posts of twentieth-century social and economic theory, despite the voices arguing for otherwise socialities. Recent work has moved plants to the fore to rethink our understandings of many core anthropological themes. This special issue adds to that work by foregrounding phytocommunicability, the ideologies about cross-species interaction shaping the kinds of work we do, observe, and make visible ethnographically.
AB - What vegetal modalities and botanic intertwinings situate cross-species communications and collectivities, and for whom? In much anthropological writing of previous eras, plants have served as a medium for analysing human sociality. Their ubiquitous presence and seemingly sessile silence, invisibility, anosmia and backgrounding have been one of the key posts of twentieth-century social and economic theory, despite the voices arguing for otherwise socialities. Recent work has moved plants to the fore to rethink our understandings of many core anthropological themes. This special issue adds to that work by foregrounding phytocommunicability, the ideologies about cross-species interaction shaping the kinds of work we do, observe, and make visible ethnographically.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1765834
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2020.1765834
M3 - Article
VL - 86
SP - 199
EP - 206
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
SN - 0014-1844
IS - 2
ER -