Tuberous Worlds : Vegetal Politics and More-Than-Human Relations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ange, Olivia.

Series:

Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2026.

Summary:

A fascinating examination of "tuberous associations"--the economies, politics, and ecologies enabled by human-tuber interactions The world is much more tuberous than most people know.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Tuberous Worlds / Olivia Ange, David Nally

Part I Producing Tubers

1. The Political Ecologies of the Potato in Ireland / David Nally

2. Cassava and Colonialism: How a Diasporic Cultigen Was Reinvented in the World System / Roy Ellen

3. The Sweet Potato: Stimulating Agricultural Innovation in the Pacific Islands / Richard Scaglion

4. Potatoes and Tuberous Worlds, Locally and Globally: A History of Agrobiodiversity and Monoculture / Karl Zimmerer

Part II Living with Tubers

5. A Question of Life and Death: Imagining Tropical Tubers / Marilyn Strathern

6. The Sacrifice of the Yams: Yams, Human Procreation, and Chiefly Hierarchy in the Trobriands / Mark Mosko

7. Could Manioc Have Been a Root of the State? An Economy of Grandeur in Amazonia / Carlos Fausto

8. Potato, War, and Hunger in Eurasia / Nancy Ries

Part III Knowing Tubers

9. Knowledge, and Its Limits, in a Rai Coast Garden / James Leach

10. Cassava Stories: Cultivating Landscapes of Memory in Indigenous Amazonia / Lewis Daly

11. Tuberous Epistemologies / Gerry Kearns, Karen E. Till

12. Reclaiming Tuberous Kin: Interspecies Verses and Potato Cosmopolitics in the Peruvian Center of Domestication / Olivia Ange

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Ange, Olivia Tuberous Worlds

ISBN:

9780300289268