Vikram Tamboli

Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy

Journal of Ethnobiology September 22, 2024 James Andrew Whitaker, Vikram Tamboli, Lewis Daly et al. 8 citations

This article uses ethnographic and ethnobotanical methods to examine relationships between animate and agentive plants and human beings among the Makushi, Pemon, Karinya, and other Indigenous and mixed-Indigenous peoples in the Guianas. It considers representations of these plants and related ontologies in the archival record and contrasts these accounts with more recent ethnographic...