Visceral love and more-than-human interembodiment: olive trees as sentient kin in Sicily
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.This study explores interembodiment beyond human connections, revealing how Sicilian olive growers' "praxis of care" fosters wellbeing through deep relationships with plants. This highlights the interconnectedness of humans, plants, and environments.
Area Of Science
- Environmental Anthropology
- Political Ecology
- Human-Plant Studies
Background
- Interembodiment, defined as shared embodied experiences between biological bodies, is explored beyond human interactions.
- Anthropological research often focuses on human-centric perspectives, necessitating broader considerations of more-than-human relationality.
Purpose Of The Study
- To extend the concept of interembodiment to include non-human entities, specifically plants.
- To investigate human-plant relationality, care, and wellbeing within the context of Sicilian olive cultivation.
- To analyze the "praxis of care" as a framework for understanding these interconnections.
Main Methods
- Long-term ethnographic research with olive growers in Sicily, Italy.
- Application of a political ecology framework.
- Analysis of participants' articulations of care, respect, and affection for living beings and landscapes.
Main Results
- Olive growers view plants as sentient kin within their "praxis of care."
- This praxis of care cultivates interembodied relational wellbeing across people, plants, landscapes, and livelihoods.
- The study challenges traditional boundaries of the body to include non-human entities.
Conclusions
- Interembodiment can be expanded to encompass human-plant relationships, blurring the lines between discrete physical bodies.
- The concept of "praxis of care" offers a model for understanding reciprocal wellbeing in human-environment interactions.
- Re-imagining responsibilities and pleasures derived from relationships with non-human bodies is crucial for environmental anthropology.
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