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Human-plant relationships.

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Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculpture representing ancient Australian forests. Forest Family centers on the relationship between old-growth nature and human culture through the narrative strand of the Giblett family of Western Australia and the forests in which they settled during the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to general readers of environmental history, as well as scholars in critical plant studies and the environmental humanities.

Old growth forests --- Human-plant relationships --- Forests in literature. --- History.

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Plantas Medicinais colabora com a preservação e multiplicação das informações obtidas em trabalhos comunitários acerca do uso de plantas para fins medicinais, com o devido respeito às tradições da herança cultural africana na medicina do Brasil. As indicações terapêuticas tradicionais indicam plantas para fins medicinais que extrapolam em muito a terapêutica convencional, assumindo, em determinados momentos, um caráter místico, embasado em crenças culturais inerentes ao grupo étnico. A visão do homem, como ser integral, respeitado em seu momento de fragilidade, quando algum mal de origem psíquica ou somática lhe aflige, destaca-se como a principal ótica para o entendimento deste trabalho.

Ethnobotany. --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnobiology --- Plants --- Human-plant relationships --- Ethnobotany --- HEALTH & FITNESS

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Commemorative volume on the 90th birth year of S.K. Jain, Indian ethnobotanist.

Ethnobotany --- Ethnobiology --- Folk biology --- Folkbiology --- Indigenous peoples --- Traditional biology --- Biology, Economic --- Ethnoscience --- Plants --- Human-plant relationships

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The Indigenous Canela inhabit a vibrant multispecies community of nearly 3,000 people and over 300 types of cultivated and wild plants living together in Maranhão State in the Brazilian Cerrado (savannah), a biome threatened with deforestation and climate change. In the face of these environmental threats, Canela women and men work to maintain riverbank and forest gardens and care for their growing crops, whom they consider to be, literally, children. This nurturing, loving relationship between people and plants—which offers a thought-provoking model for supporting multispecies survival and well-being throughout the world—is the focus of Plant Kin. Theresa L. Miller shows how kinship develops between Canela people and plants through intimate, multi-sensory, and embodied relationships. Using an approach she calls “sensory ethnobotany,” Miller explores the Canela bio-sociocultural life-world, including Canela landscape aesthetics, ethnobotanical classification, mythical storytelling, historical and modern-day gardening practices, transmission of ecological knowledge through an education of affection for plant kin, shamanic engagements with plant friends and lovers, and myriad other human-nonhuman experiences. This multispecies ethnography reveals the transformations of Canela human-environment and human-plant engagements over the past two centuries and envisions possible futures for this Indigenous multispecies community as it reckons with the rapid environmental and climatic changes facing the Brazilian Cerrado as the Anthropocene epoch unfolds.

Canella Indians --- Cerrado ecology --- Sustainable living --- Human-plant relationships --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Ethnobotany.