Story Telling of Care: Indigenous women and the feminist politics of composing with plants

Abstract:

Based on ethnographic research among two Amerindian groups, the Jarawara and Wajãpi, and their relations with cultivated plants, particularly manioc and tobacco; and inspired by feminist critique and the emergency of a more-than-human anthropology, this article aims to revisit some of the arguments in Peter Rivière’s “Of women, men and manioc”. Our main argument is woven with the concept of care, in an effort to illuminate essential aspects of the life and thoughts of the Indigenous women we work with.

Keywords:
care; Indigenous Amazonia; feminisms; manioc and tobacco