List of Illustrations Introduction: Toward a Sensory Ethnobotany in the Anthropocene Approaching People and Plants in the Anthropocene Approaching Sensory Ethnobotany Introducing the Canela People Introducing the Plant Kin Following the Pathways of This Book 1. Tracing Indigenous Landscape Aesthetics in the Changing Cerrado Tracing a Canela Aesthetics of Land Understanding the Canela Bio-Sociocultural Life-World Understanding the Changing Cerrado Approaching the Canela Territorial Landscape Becoming Resilient: Living with and Valuing the Land 2. Loving Gardens: Human-Environment Engagements in Past and Present-- Understanding Indigenous Landscape Transformations Gardening: A Brief History, 1814-Present Loving Forest and Riverbank Gardens in the Twenty-First Century Learning from Star-Woman: Origins of Horticulture and Biodiversity Maintenance Gardening as Resistance 3. Educating Affection: Becoming Gardener Parents Parenting Plants: Skills, Practice, Process Learning, Knowing, and Feeling with Plants Understanding Gendered Multispecies Bodies Caretaking of Plant Children: The Experts Becoming Strong, Becoming Happy, Becoming Well Making and Growing with Plant Kin 4. Naming Plant Children: Ethnobotanical Classification as Childcare Categorizing Plants: Sensory Pleasures Noticing, Naming, Sorting, and Saving Expanding Multispecies Families Writing: Plant Childcare in the Twenty-First Century Multispecies Loving, Open Taxonomies, and Living Lists 5. Becoming a Shaman with Plants: Friendship, Seduction, and Mediating Danger Talking with Plants Becoming a Shaman: Engagements with Nonhumans Shamanic Caring Shamanic Mediating: Dangers in the Gardens Becoming Friends to Plants in Canela Scalar Animism Conclusion: Exploring Futures for People and Plants in the Twenty-First Century Advocating for Sensory Ethnobotany in Multispecies Futures Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendices Appendix A: Living Lists of Canela Cultivated Crops Appendix B: Living Lists of Canela Native Plants in Savannah, Chapada, and Riverbank Appendix C: Star-Woman (Caxêtikwj) Mythic Story Notes References Index.