Biotraffic: Medicines and Environmental Governance in the Afterlives of Apartheid

by Christopher Morris

Biotraffic explores the complex world of biological resource trade. It takes readers inside the contemporary Ciskei region of South Africa, a once-notorious apartheid "homeland" turned extractive hub for wild medicinal plants. Drawing from in-depth ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, Christopher Morris examines the region's trade in Pelargonium sidoides, a plant once contested as a tuberculosis treatment in early twentieth-century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520404017
• ISBN13: 9780520404014
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 302 Pages