id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ebl-1918	Vittal, Jayaditya	Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants. By Michael Sheridan. 2023. Routledge, New York. 275 pp.	2025	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1473	79	49	Amongst the Chagga, for example, Dracaena plants clearly mark ownership; an individual may leave a knotted Dracaena leaf on an unattended resource, such as a log in the forest, to imply that it has already been claimed. In this case, Dracaena plants are used by the Chagga to “bear witness” (p. 53) to the redrawing of borders and restructuring of families and villages.	cache/ebl-1918.pdf	txt/ebl-1918.txt