The Mind of the Copaíba Tree: Notes on Extractivism, Animism, and Ontology from Southern Bahia
This article analyzes ritualized prescriptions for harvesting oleoresin or “oil” from the copaíba tree in Brazil. These harvesting prescriptions involve increasingly complex attributions of mind to the copaíba tree itself. The copaíba tree is widespread throughout the Americas, and for centuries has...
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| Language: | English |
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Society of Ethnobiology
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Ethnobiology Letters |
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/965 |