Gendered knowledge of plants
 

Graeber / Wengrow 237: "Harvesting wild plants and turning them into food, medicine, and complex structures like baskets or clothing is almost everywhere a female activity, and may be gendered female even when it's practised by men. This is not quite an anthropological universal, but it's about as close to one as you're ever likely to get"

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #anthropology, #women, #botany

> created Apr 24, 2025 at 10:35:14 AM


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