Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

"This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanities perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories"--

1. Introduction; 2. The rhetorical and literary tradition of stories of stuff; 3. Research on the history of individual materials; 4. Substances and materials; 5. Histories; 6. Rubber; 7. Rubber histories and the representation of Indigenous peoples of South and Central America; 8. Indigenous knowledge; 9. Indigenous rubber products; 10. Problems of untreated rubber; 11. The place of Indigenous knowledge in the history of rubber; 12. Rubber and Rubbish: tire dumps and microrubber.