L Daly
Biographic Data
| ID | 22815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Daly |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Daly |
| SIGNATURE | DALY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0542-9397 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Spirits Drink Cassava Beer: The More-Than-Human Politics of Self-Help in Amazonian Guyana
This article concerns vernacular practices of "self-help" among the indigenous Makushi people of Amazonian Guyana. Contrasted with "Western" self-care, the article examines mayu , a traditional system of communal work grounded in a collaborative ethic of "helping each other out." A convivial event, mayu is always accompanied by feasting, drinking, and the celebration of social relationships. This cooperative ethos passes beyond the human realm to…
Toxicity and Plant Animacy in Amazonia: Cosmology, Chemosensation and Ecosemiotics
In Indigenous Amazonian life-worlds, plants used for diverse purposes such as protecting, harming, seducing and curing are sometimes considered to be 'plant persons', imbued with special kinds of subjectivity. In examining plant animism in Amazonia, we consider case studies of the knowledge and use of toxic, medicinal and charm plants from two distinctive societies - the Makushi people of Guyana (Daly) and the Matsigenka of Peru (Shepard). We hav…
Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy
This article uses ethnographic and ethnobotanical methods to examine relationships between animate and agentive plants and human beings among the Makushi, Pemon, Karinya, and other Indigenous and mixed-Indigenous peoples in the Guianas. It considers representations of these plants and related ontologies in the archival record and contrasts these accounts with more recent ethnographic descriptions based on the authors' fieldwork across Guyana and …
Cassava Spirit and the Seed of History: On Garden Cosmology in Northern Amazonia
This article concerns the practice of cassava gardening among the indigenous Makushi people of Amazonian Guyana. By focusing on the cassava garden (mîî) as a primary site of multispecies engagement, I explore some of the heterogeneous modes that people-plant relationships take in everyday life and ritual practice. Plants, for the Makushi, are typically thought of as 'persons' (pemon), and gardening is predicated upon maintaining relationships of …
Magic darts and messenger molecules: Toward a phytoethnography of indigenous Amazonia
Recent scientific findings on plant intelligence are forcing anthropologists to reconsider indigenous theories of plant vitality. In this article, the authors compare original ethnographic and ethnobotanical research among two different peoples from opposite extremes of lowland South America - the Makushi of Guyana and the Matsigenka of southern Peru - and explore how somatic experiences and the chemosensory properties of plants permeate indigeno…
Integrating Ontology into Ethnobotanical Research
The title of this special section of the Journal of Ethnobiology, which grew out of a conference of the same name held at the University of Oxford in 2014, is intentionally provocative, immediately inspiring a number of questions: What might it mean to look at human-plant relations “ontologically”? What, indeed, is an “ontology,” and how does it relate to plants? Can the field of ethnobiology fruitfully engage with theoretical movements in the so…
The use of Amerindian charm plants in the Guianas
BACKGROUND: Magical charm plants to ensure good luck in hunting, fishing, agriculture, love and warfare are known among many Amerindians groups in the Guianas. Documented by anthropologists as social and political markers and exchangeable commodities, these charms have received little attention by ethnobotanists, as they are surrounded by secrecy and are difficult to identify. We compared the use of charm species among indigenous groups in the Gu…
Responding to Adolescent Women's Reproductive Health Concerns: Empowering Clients Through Health Literacy
Adolescents have particular needs in health care that are often not met. Health care providers can help overcome barriers that hinder adolescents' effective use of health services by incorporating health literacy strategies that are developmentally and contextually appropriate, and that actively involve adolescents in their own learning. Based on extensive practice and research experience in Canada with rural and urban high school adolescent wome…
Magic darts and messenger molecules: Toward a phytoethnography of indigenous Amazonia
Recent scientific findings on plant intelligence are forcing anthropologists to reconsider indigenous theories of plant vitality. In this article, the authors compare original ethnographic and ethnobotanical research among two different peoples from opposite extremes of lowland South America - the Makushi of Guyana and the Matsigenka of southern Peru - and explore how somatic experiences and the chemosensory properties of plants permeate indigeno…
Cassava Spirit and the Seed of History: On Garden Cosmology in Northern Amazonia
This article concerns the practice of cassava gardening among the indigenous Makushi people of Amazonian Guyana. By focusing on the cassava garden (mîî) as a primary site of multispecies engagement, I explore some of the heterogeneous modes that people-plant relationships take in everyday life and ritual practice. Plants, for the Makushi, are typically thought of as 'persons' (pemon), and gardening is predicated upon maintaining relationships of …
The use of Amerindian charm plants in the Guianas
BACKGROUND: Magical charm plants to ensure good luck in hunting, fishing, agriculture, love and warfare are known among many Amerindians groups in the Guianas. Documented by anthropologists as social and political markers and exchangeable commodities, these charms have received little attention by ethnobotanists, as they are surrounded by secrecy and are difficult to identify. We compared the use of charm species among indigenous groups in the Gu…
Toxicity and Plant Animacy in Amazonia: Cosmology, Chemosensation and Ecosemiotics
In Indigenous Amazonian life-worlds, plants used for diverse purposes such as protecting, harming, seducing and curing are sometimes considered to be 'plant persons', imbued with special kinds of subjectivity. In examining plant animism in Amazonia, we consider case studies of the knowledge and use of toxic, medicinal and charm plants from two distinctive societies - the Makushi people of Guyana (Daly) and the Matsigenka of Peru (Shepard). We hav…
Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy
This article uses ethnographic and ethnobotanical methods to examine relationships between animate and agentive plants and human beings among the Makushi, Pemon, Karinya, and other Indigenous and mixed-Indigenous peoples in the Guianas. It considers representations of these plants and related ontologies in the archival record and contrasts these accounts with more recent ethnographic descriptions based on the authors' fieldwork across Guyana and …
The Spirits Drink Cassava Beer: The More-Than-Human Politics of Self-Help in Amazonian Guyana
This article concerns vernacular practices of "self-help" among the indigenous Makushi people of Amazonian Guyana. Contrasted with "Western" self-care, the article examines mayu , a traditional system of communal work grounded in a collaborative ethic of "helping each other out." A convivial event, mayu is always accompanied by feasting, drinking, and the celebration of social relationships. This cooperative ethos passes beyond the human realm to…
Responding to Adolescent Women's Reproductive Health Concerns: Empowering Clients Through Health Literacy
Adolescents have particular needs in health care that are often not met. Health care providers can help overcome barriers that hinder adolescents' effective use of health services by incorporating health literacy strategies that are developmentally and contextually appropriate, and that actively involve adolescents in their own learning. Based on extensive practice and research experience in Canada with rural and urban high school adolescent wome…
The use of Amerindian charm plants in the Guianas
BACKGROUND: Magical charm plants to ensure good luck in hunting, fishing, agriculture, love and warfare are known among many Amerindians groups in the Guianas. Documented by anthropologists as social and political markers and exchangeable commodities, these charms have received little attention by ethnobotanists, as they are surrounded by secrecy and are difficult to identify. We compared the use of charm species among indigenous groups in the Gu…
Integrating Ontology into Ethnobotanical Research
The title of this special section of the Journal of Ethnobiology, which grew out of a conference of the same name held at the University of Oxford in 2014, is intentionally provocative, immediately inspiring a number of questions: What might it mean to look at human-plant relations “ontologically”? What, indeed, is an “ontology,” and how does it relate to plants? Can the field of ethnobiology fruitfully engage with theoretical movements in the so…
Magic darts and messenger molecules: Toward a phytoethnography of indigenous Amazonia
Recent scientific findings on plant intelligence are forcing anthropologists to reconsider indigenous theories of plant vitality. In this article, the authors compare original ethnographic and ethnobotanical research among two different peoples from opposite extremes of lowland South America - the Makushi of Guyana and the Matsigenka of southern Peru - and explore how somatic experiences and the chemosensory properties of plants permeate indigeno…
Cassava Spirit and the Seed of History: On Garden Cosmology in Northern Amazonia
This article concerns the practice of cassava gardening among the indigenous Makushi people of Amazonian Guyana. By focusing on the cassava garden (mîî) as a primary site of multispecies engagement, I explore some of the heterogeneous modes that people-plant relationships take in everyday life and ritual practice. Plants, for the Makushi, are typically thought of as 'persons' (pemon), and gardening is predicated upon maintaining relationships of …
Toxicity and Plant Animacy in Amazonia: Cosmology, Chemosensation and Ecosemiotics
In Indigenous Amazonian life-worlds, plants used for diverse purposes such as protecting, harming, seducing and curing are sometimes considered to be 'plant persons', imbued with special kinds of subjectivity. In examining plant animism in Amazonia, we consider case studies of the knowledge and use of toxic, medicinal and charm plants from two distinctive societies - the Makushi people of Guyana (Daly) and the Matsigenka of Peru (Shepard). We hav…
Plant Agency in the Guianas: Attraction, Assault, and Animacy
This article uses ethnographic and ethnobotanical methods to examine relationships between animate and agentive plants and human beings among the Makushi, Pemon, Karinya, and other Indigenous and mixed-Indigenous peoples in the Guianas. It considers representations of these plants and related ontologies in the archival record and contrasts these accounts with more recent ethnographic descriptions based on the authors' fieldwork across Guyana and …
The Spirits Drink Cassava Beer: The More-Than-Human Politics of Self-Help in Amazonian Guyana
This article concerns vernacular practices of "self-help" among the indigenous Makushi people of Amazonian Guyana. Contrasted with "Western" self-care, the article examines mayu , a traditional system of communal work grounded in a collaborative ethic of "helping each other out." A convivial event, mayu is always accompanied by feasting, drinking, and the celebration of social relationships. This cooperative ethos passes beyond the human realm to…
Biology (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Amazon rainforest (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)