/plant-humanities

Visual essay content for the JSTOR Labs and Dumbarton Oaks Plant humanities project

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Featured Plant Narratives {.cards}

Cacao: Indigenous Network to Global Commodity

  • Rebecca Friedel

Sunflower: Knowledge, Myth, and Meaning

  • Kristan M. Hanson

Heliconia: Evolution at Work

  • W. John Kress and Yota Batsaki

Peony: Pretty and Powerful

  • Ashley Buchanan

Cinnamomum verum: Discovering “True” Cinnamon

  • Wouter Klein

Bananas: Chaos out of Order

  • Ashley Buchanan

All Plant Narratives {.cards}

Agave: A Plant with an Intoxicating History

  • Ashley Buchanan

Arbor Vitae: In Search of the Tree of Life

  • Ashley Buchanan

Bananas: Chaos out of Order

  • Ashley Buchanan

Boxwood: A Plant That Took Over the Garden World

  • Anatole Tchikine

Cacao: Indigenous Network to Global Commodity

  • Rebecca Friedel

Carolina Rice: An Agricultural Legacy of Enslaved Peoples

  • Julia Fine

Cassava: From Toxic Tuber to Food Staple

  • Christina Emery, Rachel Hirsch, and Melinda Susanto

Cinnamomum verum: Discovering “True” Cinnamon

  • Wouter Klein

Dittany: Women’s Herbs and Reproductive Control

  • Ashley Buchanan

Dracaena draco: The Mystery of Dragon's Blood

  • Thomas C. Anderson, Cati Kalinoski, and Lucas Mertehikian

Heliconia: Evolution at Work

  • W. John Kress and Yota Batsaki

Mint: The Ubiquity of a Commercial Crop

  • Victoria Pickering

Pelargonium: By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet?

  • Daisy Reid, Verónica Matallana Chaves, Yao Jiang

Peony: Pretty and Powerful

  • Ashley Buchanan

Sunflower: Knowledge, Myth, and Meaning

  • Kristan M. Hanson

Turmeric: Herb of the Sun

  • Julia Fine

Watermelon: Stereotypes of Race and Class

  • Anna Lawrence, Camilo Uribe Botta, and May Wang