READ: Alum Michael Sheridan’s book, ROOTS OF POWER
Alum Michael Sheridan’s new book, Roots of Power, comes out on 4/21. Find it at: https://www.routledge.com/Roots-of-Power-The-Political-Ecology-of-Boundary-Plants/Sheridan/p/book/9781032411408.
It’s a multi-sited ethnography of plants as property rights institutions, with chapters about Tanzania, Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, and St. Vincent. Sheridan says that this book is the long-term result of discussing Roy Rappaport’s Pigs for the Ancestors in the anthro seminar room at 232 Bay State Road!