Bastos, Cristiana2024-01-162024-01-162024Bastos, C. (2024). Plant-people intimacies: sugar canes, pineapples and the memory of migration in Hawai‘i. Journal of Ethnobiology, Vol. 44, N. 1, pp. 11-22. (First published online January 10, 2024). DOI 10.1177/02780771231221643.http://hdl.handle.net/10451/61771In this article, I use the concept of ‘plant-people intimacies’ for the social-mediated web of cognitions, rituals, affects and embodied memories that connect some human groups and some plant species. I test the concept in the transformed landscapes of plantation Hawai‘i, where sugar canes, pineapples and other crops replaced the traditional taro gardens and displaced their human gardeners while producing a multi-ethnic population with migrant workers-settlers. I will analyse how evocations of special bonds to some crops among diasporic persons express a vegetal nexus with ancestral geographies and act as a code to negotiate social and historical positionalitiesengplantationlabourmigrationHawai’iPortuguesejournal article10.1177/02780771231221643