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

Sarah Ives is a lecturer and postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University.

List of contents

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. The "Rooibos Revolution"  1
1. Cultivating Indigeneity  29
2. Farming the Bush  65
3. Endemic Plants and Invasive People  96
4. Rumor, Conspiracy, and the Politics of Narration  134
5. Precarious Landscapes  173
Conclusion. "Although There Is No Place Called Rooibos"  210
Notes  217
References  229
Index  245

About the author

Sarah Ives

Summary

Exploring the racial and environmental politics behind South Africa’s rooibos tea industry to examine heritage-based claims to the indigenous plant by two groups of contested indigeneity: white Afrikaners and “coloured” South Africans.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Ives, Sarah Fleming Ives
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780822369868
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6986-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century; New Ecologies for the Twenty-F; New Ecologies for the Twenty-first Century; New Ecologies for the Twenty-F
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology