Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio is Assistant Professor in the Law & Society Program, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) at York University.

• List of tables ixPreface xAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction: law and the pluriverse 1PART ILaw and its ontological itineraries: a legal herbarium 291 Yoco (Paullinia Yoco): cooling down the mind and learning law where the law is not named as such 31Intertext 1 The elder and the seed 622 Yagé (Banisteriopsis caapi): moving words across worlds and entangled temporalities in Amazonia 64Intertext 2 Tobacco as people 823 Coca leaf (Erythroxylaceae coca): territories in motion and learning law with the Amazonian “mambe” 85Intertext 3 On entanglements and encounters: an attempt at controlled speculation 1094 The making of an ethnobotanical research agreement in Southern Colombia: Yagé, invisible people and the law of the place 114PART IIOn the rights of nature: limits, possibilities and challenges in neo-extractivist worlds 1435 Sowing concepts: towards a post-humanist understanding of the encounter of beings 1456 Plants and the law: vegetal ontologies and the rights of nature 1857 Conjuring sentient beings and relations in the law: rights of nature and a comparative praxis of legal cosmologies 1998 Forest on trial: towards a relational theory of legal personhood 2169 Concluding, opening 231Index 248

Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio is Assistant Professor in the Law & Society Program, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) at York University.

• List of tables ixPreface xAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction: law and the pluriverse 1PART ILaw and its ontological itineraries: a legal herbarium 291 Yoco (Paullinia Yoco): cooling down the mind and learning law where the law is not named as such 31Intertext 1 The elder and the seed 622 Yagé (Banisteriopsis caapi): moving words across worlds and entangled temporalities in Amazonia 64Intertext 2 Tobacco as people 823 Coca leaf (Erythroxylaceae coca): territories in motion and learning law with the Amazonian “mambe” 85Intertext 3 On entanglements and encounters: an attempt at controlled speculation 1094 The making of an ethnobotanical research agreement in Southern Colombia: Yagé, invisible people and the law of the place 114PART IIOn the rights of nature: limits, possibilities and challenges in neo-extractivist worlds 1435 Sowing concepts: towards a post-humanist understanding of the encounter of beings 1456 Plants and the law: vegetal ontologies and the rights of nature 1857 Conjuring sentient beings and relations in the law: rights of nature and a comparative praxis of legal cosmologies 1998 Forest on trial: towards a relational theory of legal personhood 2169 Concluding, opening 231Index 248

Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio is Assistant Professor in the Law & Society Program, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) at York University.

• List of tables ixPreface xAcknowledgments xiiIntroduction: law and the pluriverse 1PART ILaw and its ontological itineraries: a legal herbarium 291 Yoco (Paullinia Yoco): cooling down the mind and learning law where the law is not named as such 31Intertext 1 The elder and the seed 622 Yagé (Banisteriopsis caapi): moving words across worlds and entangled temporalities in Amazonia 64Intertext 2 Tobacco as people 823 Coca leaf (Erythroxylaceae coca): territories in motion and learning law with the Amazonian “mambe” 85Intertext 3 On entanglements and encounters: an attempt at controlled speculation 1094 The making of an ethnobotanical research agreement in Southern Colombia: Yagé, invisible people and the law of the place 114PART IIOn the rights of nature: limits, possibilities and challenges in neo-extractivist worlds 1435 Sowing concepts: towards a post-humanist understanding of the encounter of beings 1456 Plants and the law: vegetal ontologies and the rights of nature 1857 Conjuring sentient beings and relations in the law: rights of nature and a comparative praxis of legal cosmologies 1998 Forest on trial: towards a relational theory of legal personhood 2169 Concluding, opening 231Index 248