Abstract
Abstract
In trying to understand the colloquial culture around plant life, this chapter goes to Maya-mashi, a Bangladeshi refugee living in sub-Himalayan Bengal, whose tic is to annotate her conversations with Bangla idioms and phrases about plants. What made her, a single mother who had chosen a new country to save her life, identify with the plant world? As we move towards a world where both the proverbs and the plant life that gave birth to them seem on the verge of extinction, this rich archive that was polished by everyone who walked in the language shows that the anonymous were also plant thinkers.
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
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