Plants Matter: Exploring the Becomings of Plants and People

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This book redefines plants as more than something to be consumed by humans.

Plants are often presented as resources for us to use. This book challenges that perspective by demonstrating other ways that plants matter. By turning away from the idea that humanity calls all the shots, this book reminds the reader that plants instrumentally influence and organize our lives by shaping choices and beliefs.

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"This book puts plants back among people and shows that paying attention to the people-plant relationship opens new ground for understanding the plant-filled world we live in."-- "Jeremy Narby, co-author of Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge (2021)"
"What if plants were people who sense, discover, remember and decide just as people do Who communicate amongst themselves, whose kith and kin are spread about, rooted in relations of filiation and descent, who breathe the wind and thirst for water If only we humans could attend to what plants have to teach us, how much we could learn! Read this book, and find out for yourself."-- "Tim Ingold, emeritus professor of social anthropology, University of Aberdeen"

Author Bio

Luci Attala is a senior lecturer in anthropology and the director of UNESCO-BRIDGES Hub (UK). She is also one of the directors of Educere Alliance at Oxford University. Louise Steel is professor of Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is an associate director of UNESCO-BRIDGES Hub (UK). Both are series editors in New Materialities for the University of Wales Press.