Thinking with Plants: Plants, People, and Society (ANTH-0174)

Fall 2024 · ANTH 0174 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Explores use of plants as material resources (food, medicines, licit/illicit drugs, infrastructure) and as symbolic resources. Topics include circulation of plants; colonial cultivation, extraction, and power; place of plants in different lived environments and symbolic ecologies; plants, capitalism, and commodity chains; indigenous knowledge, tourism, and biopiracy; commercialization, criminalization and legality; multi-species approaches to living with and among botanicals.

Course codes: ANTH-0174, ANTH 0174, ANTH0174, ANTH-174, ANTH 174, ANTH174

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