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Nutmeg’s Curse
Nutmeg’s Curse
By Amitav Ghosh

Nutmeg’s Curse

Sale price$1.00

From the Mother Tongue Rewilding & Enchantment collection.

Nominated by Writer, Researcher & Language Scholar
Eva Barbarossa

"Traces the ecological violence encoded in colonial language. Bridges history and ecology, human greed and the planet’s speech." 

The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment.

In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning.

Borrow, share, exchange as you wish, and return by the end of the season on February 6th. Pick up at the gallery anytime, and return and swap for a new book of your choosing. To our global friends - online borrowing is possible, just pay for the shipping there and back. 

The Mother Tongue Library is a love letter to the thinkers, writers, and artists who’ve given us the language of courage when we needed it most. 
Nutmeg’s Curse
Nutmeg’s Curse Sale price$1.00