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Plants, people and health: Three disciplines at work in Namaqualand

South African Journal of Science, 2015-09, Vol.111 (9/10), p.76-1 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Plants, people and health: Three disciplines at work in Namaqualand
Author: Green, Lesley ; Gammon, David W ; Hoffman, Michael T ; Cohen, Joshua ; Hilgart, Amelia ; Morrell, Robert. G ; Verran, Helen ; Wheat, Nicola
Subjects: Anthropological research ; Anthropology ; Biology ; Chemistry ; Chemists ; Democracy ; Folk medicine ; Humanities, Multidisciplinary ; indigenous knowledge ; interdisciplinarity ; Medicinal plants ; Medicine, Primitive ; Meetings ; natural products chemistry ; phenology ; Plant sciences ; Postcolonialism ; Researchers ; scientific knowledge ; Studies ; Writing
Is Part Of: South African Journal of Science, 2015-09, Vol.111 (9/10), p.76-1
Description: In Paulshoek, Namaqualand, three research projects focusing on medicinal plants were developed concurrently. The projects were based in the disciplines of anthropology, botany and chemistry. In this paper, we explore how these projects related to one another and describe the conversations that occurred in the process of searching for transdisciplinary knowledge. The projects ostensibly shared a common object of knowledge, but it was through working together that the medicinal plants constituted us as a community of scholars. As our insight into our respective disciplinary relationships with the plants grew, so did our understanding of the limitations of our respective disciplinary positions. The process made possible a reimagination of both the object of study and our relationships to it and to one another. The research project, conceptualised in 2009, engaged current debates on indigenous knowledge and its historical erasures, and offered an approach that has potential to produce new knowledge while respecting the integrity of the disciplines.
Publisher: Pretoria: African Online Scientific Information Systems (Pty) Ltd t/a AOSIS
Language: English;Portuguese
Identifier: ISSN: 1996-7489
ISSN: 0038-2353
EISSN: 1996-7489
DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2015/20140276
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