planthropology
The study of plants in order to understand their relationships to humans and human culture.
We must get to know plants intimately and on their terms. And so we need a planthropology (Myers 2015a) to document the affective ecologies taking shape between plants and people, to learn to listen to their demands for unpaved land and for a time outside of the rhythms of capitalist extraction.
Where it comes from
Coined by anthropologist Natasha Myers, from plant + anthropology
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry planthropology (CC BY-SA 4.0).