Meaning of planthropology | Babel Free

Definitions

The study of plants in order to understand their relationships to humans and human culture.

Examples

“We must get⟳ to know⟳ plants intimately and on their terms. And so we need⟳ a planthropology (Myers 2015a) to document the affective ecologies taking shape⟳ between plants and people, to learn⟳ to listen⟳ to their demands for unpaved land⟳ and for a time outside of the rhythms of capitalist extraction.”

“As anthropology questions the boundaries between human and plant⟳ lives with the plant⟳ turn⟳ and a planthropology (Myers 2017), so too is plant⟳ science questioning long-held assumptions about plant⟳ behavior and communication.”

“Using human-plant relationships to help⟳ understand⟳ human culture is known as 'planthropology' (Myers 2017).”

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