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Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea

Steeped in Heritage: The Racial Politics of South African Rooibos Tea

Ives, Sarah Fleming

Paperback

Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

African HistoryAnthropologyAgriculture

ISBN10: 0822369931
ISBN13: 9780822369936
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Oct 27 2017
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
South African rooibos tea is a commodity of contrasts. Renowned for its healing properties, the rooibos plant grows in a region defined by the violence of poverty, dispossession, and racism. And while rooibos is hailed as an ecologically indigenous commodity, it is farmed by people who struggle to express authentic belonging to the land: Afrikaners, who espouse a white African indigeneity, and coloureds, who are characterized either as the mixed-race progeny of extinct Bushmen or as possessing a false identity, indigenous to nowhere. In Steeped in Heritage Sarah Ives explores how these groups advance alternate claims of indigeneity based on the cultural ownership of an indigenous plant. This heritage-based struggle over rooibos shows how communities negotiate landscapes marked by racial dispossession within an ecosystem imperiled by climate change and precarious social relations in the postapartheid era.

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