TY - BOOK ID - 118051993 TI - Apacina : a contemporary herbal and ambiguous tale AU - O'Donnell, Rachel AU - Morris, Wendy PY - 2022 SN - 9783947858408 394785840X PB - Berlin K. Verlag DB - UniCat KW - kunst KW - tekenkunst KW - literatuur KW - eenentwintigste eeuw KW - Zuid-Afrika KW - Morris Wendy KW - plantkunde KW - botanica KW - slavernij KW - vrouwen KW - 7.071 MORRIS KW - Afrikaanse diaspora KW - Tentoonstellingscatalogi ; Aalst ; Netwerk Galerij KW - Morris, Wendy °1960 (°Namibië) KW - 7.07 KW - Kunstenaars met verschillende disciplines, niet traditioneel klasseerbare, conceptuele kunstenaars A-Z KW - Art KW - art [discipline] KW - botany KW - slavery KW - herbalists KW - midwives KW - Morris, Wendy KW - South Africa UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118051993 AB - Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist is a series of small chapbooks designed to bring collaborators, audiences, and readers together within the project Nothing of Importance Occurred: Recuperating a Herball for a 17th Century Enslaved Angolan Midwife at the Cape. Initiated by South African artist Wendy Morris, Nothing of Importance Occurred is an artistic project recuperating missing narratives at the Cape through speculative investigations of plants-as-archive and storytelling as method. It has as its focus the retrieving of a library of botanical-medicinal knowledge that might have informed Morris’s enslaved ancestor, Maaij Claesje of Angola, midwife in the Company Slave Lodge in Cape Town. The investigation follows streams of contraceptive plant knowledge that flowed to the Cape through the bodies of enslaved women from Angola, Moçambique, and Madagascar, and from India, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka, as well as through the bodies of women emigrating from the Netherlands, and Huguenots fleeing France. The investigation traces practices already existent at the Cape in the healing ecologies of Khoi, Nama, and San women. Because upwards of four million Angolans were trafficked to the Americas, the project follows recorded practices among women there too. This project of recuperation leads towards a polyvocal Herball of contraceptive plants, the collaborative Fildguides, and a part-fictionalized Return from Cape Town to the interior of Angola. ER -