Host Ellen Kamhi PhD, RN, interviewed Ann Armbrecht, PhD about her latest book The Business of Botanicals

About Dr. Armbrecht

Ann Armbrecht is the director of the Sustainable Herbs Program under the auspices of the American Botanical Council. She is a writer and anthropologist (PhD, Harvard 1995) whose work explores the relationships between humans and the earth, most recently through her work with plants and plant medicine. She is the co-producer of the documentary Numen: The Nature of Plants and the author of the award-winning ethnographic memoir Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home, based on her research in Nepal. Her latest book is The Business of Botanicals: Exploring the Healing Promise of Plant Medicines in a Global Industry (Chelsea Green Publishing, February 2021). She lives with her family in central Vermont.

About the Book

In this book Ann explored the questions that drew her to herbalism in the first place. If, as she believed, herbal medicine offers insights into how to live in right relationship with the earth, can those values stand up to capitalism? Can plants be both living entities with which humans can have a sacred relationship, and commodities governed by the laws of capital?”

Contact:
Author Website: https://annarmbrecht.com/
Organization Website: https://sustainableherbsprogram.org/
Twitter: @AnnArmbrecht
Facebook: @ann.armbrecht
Instagram: @ann_armbrecht

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