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3-0230 PEOPLE, PLANTS, AND PRACTICE: GARDEN VARIETY INVESTIGATIONS OF DOMESTICATED NATURE
Thursday, November 17, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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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