Plants 'of the Ancestors', Plants 'of the Outsiders': Esa Eja History, Migration and Medicinal Plants

Alexiades, Miguel and Peluso, Daniela M. (2009) Plants 'of the Ancestors', Plants 'of the Outsiders': Esa Eja History, Migration and Medicinal Plants. In: Alexiades, Miguel, ed. Mobility and Migration in Indigenous Amazonia: Contemporary Ethnoecological Perspectives. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology . Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 220-248. ISBN 978-1-84545-563-7. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:30044)

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Abstract

In this chapter we present evidence to suggest that Ese Eja medicinal plant knowledge can be more productively understood as historically contingent. We suggest that the ways in which Ese Eja think, talk about and interact with many medicinals reflects recent historical, social and ecological transformations. Specifically, we propose that the concatenation of twentieth-century downriver migration, sedentarisation and heightened involvement with agriculture and market-based forest extractivism is reflected in how plants are used, both symbolically and materially.

Item Type:	Book section
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Divisions:	Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation
Depositing User:	Shelley Urwin
Date Deposited:	07 Aug 2012 10:51 UTC
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2024 10:12 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/30044 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Alexiades, Miguel.

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