Lexington Books
Pages: 172
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66694-052-7 • Hardback • January 2025 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66694-053-4 • eBook • December 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00) (coming soon)
Elizabeth Oriel received her PhD in global studies from the University of London. She is currently based at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Introduction: Shaped by Vegetal Matters: Phyto-Influences on Humans, Other Animals, and Place
Chapter 1: Vegetal Matters Shaping Human-Elephant Relations and Coexistence
Chapter 2: Jacaranda Trees’ Affective Placemaking
Chapter 3: Wapato and Camas: Plant Influences on Wapato Island
Chapter 4: Social Worlds of Willow Basketry
Chapter 5: Ash Tree Worlding
Conclusion: Vegetal Influences and Meeting of the Minds
References
About the Author
"This exceptional book reveals the exquisite interplay and interdependence between the animal (human and otherwise) and the vegetal worlds. Through stories of diverse lifeforms, ecosystems, and cultures, the crudeness of separation and hierarchy imposed by colonial capitalism are laid bare for us to re-examine and re-imagine. We see that we don’t shape plants and the vegetal world as much as they shape our inner and outer lives … and our very existence.
As a wildlife scientist, this work has convinced me that we cannot truly protect elephants or other wildlife without giving greater priority to the biocultural needs of the vegetal world as it intersects with humans. Accordingly, we can improve the interests of humans who live and work closely within these systems but have been separated from their own traditional and indigenous ways of life."
— Toni Frohoff Ph.D, Wildlife Behavioral Biologist