Keeping life going: plants and people today, yesterday and tomorrow

Journal article

Abstract:: I review the contributions to this special issue by focusing on the relational qualities that bind people and plants together through religious ritualization of economic activities such as crop cultivation or plant gathering in the wild. I show how an attention to plants as teachers facilitates cross-cultural comparative analysis.

Dans cette lecture comparative des contributions formant le numéro spécial, j’offre une réflexion personnelle sur les qualités relationnelles des liens qui peuvent unir les gens aux plantes. Je me penche tout particulièrement sur les rites religieux accompagnant les activités agricoles ou la cueillette des plantes en milieu sauvage. J’en conclus qu’une approche focalisée sur le rôle pédagogique des plantes facilite l’analyse comparative.

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Language:: English
Keywords:: personhood

plant intelligence

plants in rituals

religious symbolism

wild and domesticated nature

intelligence et vie des plantes

nature sauvage et domestiquée

symbolisme religieux

théories de la personne

usage rituel des plantes
Pubs id:: 1305637
Local pid:: pubs:1305637
Deposit date:: 2025-03-13
ARK identifier:: ark:/29072/ora_81e07548a3744a0ea215e5295740ae17

Copyright holder:: Laura Rival
Rights statement:: © The Author(s) 2021. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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