Plant communication among the Ralámuli people: Dreams, songs, iconography, and the interconnected fabric
The northern Mexican Ralámuli people consider plants to be their kin. First- and secondhand ethnographies bring forth fundamental issues that convey the possibility of communicating with plants. For example, the notion of an interconnected world has to do with roots, with threads, and with thought o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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| In: |
Anthropology of consciousness
Year: 2023, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 508-526 |
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Ralámuli plant knowledge
B ancestral memory B textile iconography B plants as wise guides B plants as kin |
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| Summary: | The northern Mexican Ralámuli people consider plants to be their kin. First- and secondhand ethnographies bring forth fundamental issues that convey the possibility of communicating with plants. For example, the notion of an interconnected world has to do with roots, with threads, and with thought or nátali (consciousness, remembrance, ancestral memory), all of which embrace the life path. This path also refers to that used by healers, who in their dreams and through their chants communicate with sacred plants. This article also deepens the understanding of textiles—originally made from vegetal fibers and considering that in Ralámuli origin stories the Earth was woven—and their iconography, which also appears in healing contexts, to see if there is a relationship between specific motifs and the information that, via dreams and chants, the plants are delivering. |
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| ISSN: | 1556-3537 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Anthropology of consciousness
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12174 |