Date of Award

2024

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Dean, Erin

Area of Concentration

Environmental Science and Anthropology with French Language and Culture

Abstract

This thesis is based on two months of ethnographic research on a farm/apothecary homestead in Outaouais, Québec. There I strived to unearth the approaches both botanical and market employed by Twin Lakes Apothecary to better understand and contextualize the contemporary manifestations of ethnobotany in Québec. I pursued this primarily through a participant-observer approach in which I opportunistically followed networks of exchange and information to gradually traverse the life history of products and people at the apothecary. In examining the apothecary through such a lens, I illuminate the mythos and notions of production and validity in sectors often described as organic, alternative, holistic, ethnomedicinal, naturopathic, etc. The following themes will be primary; foraging, spacetime and labor, food and medicine, and network. The overall paper approaches these through the lens of practice at Twin Lakes as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).

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