Alternative Reading Pathways (xiii) Introduction (1) I Conceptions 1 The Plant: A Stranger (13) Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola 2 Maimonides' Palm Tree (25) Michael Marder 3 Hermeneutics of Trees in an African Context: Enriching the Understanding of the Environment "For the Common Heritage of Humankind" (43) Angela Roothaan 4 A Weed is a Plant Out of Place (61) Allegra Pesenti 5 Nuucaanul Plants and Habitats as Reflected in Oral Traditions: Since Raven and Thunderbird Roamed (73) Marlene Atleo (?eh ?eh nah tuu k*iss) 6 Interview with Mark Dion (87) 7 Interview with Zayaan Khan (91) II Methodologies 8 The Human Bumblebee (97) Michael Pollan 9 Cosmologies: Perspectivism (107) Eduardo Viveiros de Castro 10 Of Other Spaces: (Brief) Encounters (145) Giovanni Aloi 11 Adventures in Phytophenomenology (159) David Wood 12 Introduction to Plant-Thinking (173) Michael Marder 13 Interview with Jonathon Keats (187) 14 Interview with Spela Petric (195) III Engagements 15 Seeds and Plants as my Teachers of Ethics (205) 16 Concepts of Ethnomedicine (227) Dan Choffnes 17 Blossoming Sex: Floral Transpositions in the Works of Natalia LL and Zofia Kulik (263) Monika Bakke 18 Botanical Decolonization: in Defense of Cultivars (277) Giovanni Aloi 19 Invasive Species, Indigenous Stewards, and Vulnerability Discourse (291) Nicholas J. Reo, Kyle Whyte, Darren Ranco, Jodi Brandt, Emily Blackmer, and Braden Elliott 20 Interview with Uriel Orlow (311) 21 Interview with D. Denenge Duyst-Akpem (319) IV Subjectivities 22 Estado Vegetal (329) Manuela Infante and Marcela Salinas 23 Dissemination, Rhizomes, Efflorescene: The Legacy of the Vegetative Soul in Twentieth-Century Thought (335) Elaine Miller 24 The Colour Green (359) Prudence Gibson 25 Preventing Plant Blindness (377) James H. Wandersee and Elisabeth E. Schussler 26 Trees in Shallow Time (385) Mark Payne 27 Interview with Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro (393) 28 Interview with Maria Thereza Alves (399) V Intelligences 29 The Living Thought (407) Eduardo Kohn 30 Intelligence and Consciousness (439) Anthony Trewavas 31 The 1970s Plant Craze (461) Teresa Castro 32 Floral Sensations: Plant Biopolotics (479) Catriona A. H. Sandilands 33 To Hear Plants Speak (495) Michael Marder 34 The Time Travelers: Im/Possibilities of Return (517) Elaine Gan 35 Interview with Samaneh Moafi (525) 36 Interview with Diana Scherer (533) VI Autobiographies 37 A.Mazing Pea (541) Monica Gagliano 38 Conversation: The Intelligence of Plants (555) Robin Wall Kimmerer and Krista Tippett 39 Ruderal Societies (569) Lois Weinberger 40 Seeking Refuge in the Vegetal World (573) Luce Irigary and Michael Marder 41 The Green Belt Movement (583) Wangari Maathai 42 Sorely Visible: Plants, Roots, and National Identity Giavanni Aloi 43 Interview with Linda Tegg and Baracco + Wright (607) 44 Interview with Anicka Yi (615) Contributors (621).