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Title: | Cultural Botany: Toward a Model of Transdisciplinary, Embodied, and Poetic Research into Plants | Contributor(s): | Ryan, John C (author) | Publication Date: | 2011 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.3167/nc.2011.060202 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20939 | Abstract: | Since the eighteenth century, the study of plants has reflected an increasingly mechanized and technological view of the natural world that divides the humanities and the natual sciences. In broad terms, this article proposes a context for research into flora through an interrogation of existing literature addressing a rapprochement between ways to knowledge. The nature culture dichotomy, and more specifically the plant-to-human sensory disjunction, follows a parallel course of resolution to the schism between objective (technical, scientific, reductionistic, visual) and subjective (emotive, artistic, relational, multi-sensory) forms of knowledge. The foundations of taxonomic botany, as well as the allied fields of environmental studies, ethnobotany and economic botany, are undergirded by universalizing, sensory-limited visual structuring of the natural world. As the study of everyday embodied interactions of humans with flora, expanding upon the lens of cultural ecology, "cultural botany" provides a transdisciplinary research approach. Alternate embodied cultural engagements with flora emerge through a syncretic fusion of diverse methodologies. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Nature and Culture, 6(2), p. 123-148 | Publisher: | Berghahn Books Inc | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1558-5468 1558-6073 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200506 North American Literature 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified 200525 Literary Theory |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 969999 Environment not elsewhere classified 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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