planthropology
planthropology noun: the study of plants in order to understand their relationships to humans and human culture.
Noun
planthropology (plural planthropologies)
- The study of plants in order to understand their relationships to humans and human culture.
- 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.2016, Natasha Myers, “Photosynthesis”, in Society for Cultural Anthropology
- 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.2019, Theresa L. Miller, Plant Kin: A Multispecies Ethnography in Indigenous Brazil, University of Texas Press, page 6
Forms of planthropology
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Origin of planthropology
Coined by anthropologist Natasha Myers, from plant + anthropology
Questions about planthropology
- What does planthropology mean?
- Planthropology means the study of plants in order to understand their relationships to humans and human culture.
- What part of speech is planthropology?
- Planthropology is a noun.
- What is the plural of planthropology?
- The plural of planthropology is planthropologies.
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