Chapter Four Naming Plant Children Ethnobotanical Classification as Childcare

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. Introduction Toward a Sensory Ethnobotany in the Anthropocene 1
5. Chapter One Tracing Indigenous Landscape Aesthetics in the Changing Cerrado 20
6. Chapter Two Loving Gardens: Human–Environment Engagements in Past and Present 48
7. Chapter Three Educating Affection Becoming Gardener Parents 90
8. Chapter Four Naming Plant Children Ethnobotanical Classification as Childcare 146
9. Chapter Five Becoming a Shaman with Plants Friendship, Seduction, and Mediating Danger 186
10. Conclusion Exploring Futures for People and Plants in the Twenty-First Century 229
11. EPILOGUE 234
12. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 237
13. APPENDIX A Living Lists of Canela Cultivated Crops 241
14. APPENDIX B Living Lists of Canela Native Plants in Savannah, Chapada, and Riverbank 259
15. APPENDIX C Star-Woman (Caxêtikwỳj) Mythic Story 262
16. NOTES 265
17. REFERENCES 271
18. INDEX 289