3-0230 PEOPLE, PLANTS, AND PRACTICE: GARDEN VARIETY INVESTIGATIONS OF DOMESTICATED NATURE

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Thursday, November 17, 2011: 08:00-11:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Sarah ~Besky (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Chairs: Jonathan E Padwe (University of Hawai'i)

Discussants: Katja Grotzner Neves (CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY) and Virginia D. Nazarea (University of Georgia)

08:00

Understanding the Significance and Persistence of Maize/Bean/Squash Polycultures In Contemporary Milpa Agriculture In Central Yucatan, Mexico

John Tuxill (Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Western Washington University)

08:15

African Landscapes In the Americas: the Case of Cordyline Fruticosa

Michael Sheridan (Middlebury College)

08:30

The Decline of the Paraguayan Seed

Kregg Hetherington (Dalhousie University)

08:45

Ethnobotany In the Oklahoma Ozarks: The Guardianship of Western Cherokee Language and Plant Knowledge

Justin M Nolan (University of Arkansas) and Rick Stepp (University of Florida)

09:00

Growing Connections: School Gardens and Youth Cultural Identity In Tucson, Arizona

Sarah Anne Moore (University of Arizona)

09:15

Planting for Land: Agrarian Dreams and the Politics of Dispossession At the Urban Fringe of Cartagena, Colombia

Roseann Cohen (Yale University)

09:30

Break

09:45

Garden Variety Histories: Agricultural Practice and Postwar Memory In Highland Cambodia

Jonathan E Padwe (University of Hawai'i)

10:00

Gardening the Tea Plantation: People-Plant Relationships In Darjeeling, India

Sarah ~Besky (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:15

“If You Take Care of Coffee, It Will Take Care of You”: Interdependence and Transformations Among Smallholder Honduran Coffee Producers and Their Plantations

Catherine M Tucker (Indiana University)

10:30

Cultivating a Region: Agrarian Practice and Historical Imagination In Uttarakhand, India

Shaila Seshia Galvin (Yale University)

10:45

Deep Politics In Thin Soils: Amazonian Practitioners and Agricultural Imaginaries

Kristina Marie Lyons (University of California, Davis)

11:00

Discussant

Katja Grotzner Neves (CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY)

11:15

Discussant

Virginia D. Nazarea (University of Georgia)

11:30

Discussion

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