Greening honey

Producing the underground origins of a forest wonder

Bibliographic Data

ID2391143
AuthorsSarah Webb (0000-0003-4956-4707, The University of Queensland, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume24
Issue1
Pages48-63
Publication date2019-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183518782717
OpenAlexW2809664527
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

Green honey is a substance reputedly made under the ground by a powerful bee endemic to Palawan Island. Stories of its mysterious origins have circulated for years across the Philippines. 'Underground' is a place on Palawan - a nationally significant subterranean river sometimes rumoured to be a source of green honey. But beyond this specific site, and in quite another sense, the underground can also refer to a space where production occurs through shared imaginings but remains unseen. This article explores how the circulation of green honey produced in this underground space has shaped the lived place of Underground. Multi-sited ethnography is used to investigate how the social lives of green honey across the Philippines, including their embedded politics, reorganize the value of 'local' honey on Palawan. Greening honey, the author argues, involves materializing the purported origins of substances through their forms as bottled objects

Archaeology · Biology · Ethnography · Geography · Greening · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Wonder · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Ecology

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