Re-evaluating a tree’s ‘real worth’

The historical dispossession of ecological stewardship and its legacy for a Japanese textile tradition

Bibliographic Data

ID18971795
AuthorsCharlotte Linton (0000-0002-7890-4099, University of Oxford, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume35
Issue3
Pages686-709
Publication date2024-05-26
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02757206.2022.2116017
OpenAlexW4294311612
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

This article explores the precarity that surrounds the acquisition of techigi (yeddo hawthorn) trees, a material used in the production of traditional and contemporary textiles, on the island of Amami Ōshima, southern Japan. A waste product of industrial forestry, the article suggests that the difficulties craftspeople face in accessing techigi are symptoms of complex historical and contemporary processes linked to property regimes and resource management that have dispossessed local residents of ecological stewardship

Archaeology · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Precarity · Social science · Sociology · Textile · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · History · Law · Philosophy

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