Towards an Anthropology of plant names:The binomial system

An exploration of how plants have been classified through time and across different cultures, exploring how western science and indigenous knowledge systems have perceived and made sense of the world around them. The narrative has attempted to unpick some of the documented evidence, and where no direct evidence can be found, to search out other ways to make sense of the world by interpreting some of the material that others have left through their embodied experience, as anthropological or linguistic research and writings