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Author : John Gonsalves
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Botany, Economic
ISBN : 8182930677
Author : G.E. Wickens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401009690
The strength of this book is that it is written by someone who has spent a lifetime devoted to the science of economic botany. The author has brought together his vast experience in the field in Africa with his studies of arid land plants at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The result is an informative and reliable text that covers a vast range of topics. It is also firmly based upon the author's research and interest in plant taxonomy and therefore fully acknowledges the importance of correct naming and classification in the field of science of economic botany. The coverage is of economic botany in its broadest sense. I was delighted to find such topics as ecophysiology, plant breeding, the environment and conservation are included in the text. This gives the book a much more comprehensive coverage than most other texts on the subject. I was also glad to see that the book covers the use of various organisms that are no longer considered part of the plant kingdom such as various species of fungi and algae. It is indeed a broad ranging book that will be of use to many people interested in the uses of plants and fungi. Economic botany is once again being given more prominence as a discipline because of its enormous relevance to both conservation and sustainable development. Those people involved in those topics shOUld find this a most useful resource.
Author : Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana,Andrea Pieroni,Rajindra K. Puri
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845458140
The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts. Modern botanical and medical science itself was built on studies of Medieval Europeans’ use of food plants and medicinal herbs. In spite of monumental changes introduced in the Age of Discovery and Mercantile Capitalism, some communities, often of immigrants in foreign lands, continue to hold on to old recipes and traditions, while others have adopted and enculturated exotic plants and remedies into their diets and pharmacopoeia in new and creative ways. Now in the 21st century, in the age of the European Union and Globalization, European folk botany is once again dynamically responding to changing cultural, economic, and political contexts. The authors and studies presented in this book reflect work being conducted across Europe’s many regions. They tell the story of the on-going evolution of human-plant relations in one of the most bioculturally dynamic places on the planet, and explore new approaches that link the re-evaluation of plant-based cultural heritage with the conservation and use of biocultural diversity.
Author : Thomas J. S. Carlson,Luisa Maffi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015062629467
"The field of ethnobotany (and more generally ethnobiology) traces its roots to two distinct research traditions: a long standing interest in how human societies around the world make use of plants (and animals) in their local environments; and a more recent (mid-1950's onward) interest in how humans perceive, classify, and name the natural world. Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity is based in part on a symposium by the same title held at the Sixteenth International Botanical Congress in Saint Louis, Missouri, August 1-7, 1999. This volume showcases recent ethnobotanical research conducted by members of a new generation of ethnobiologists, including case studies from the tropical environments of the Amazon Basin, Africa, and Asia. Part 1 focuses on the contributions of traditional ecological knowledge and sustainable use of traditional plant resources. Part 3 deals with ethical issues in ethnobiology."--
Author : Pandey B.P.
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 8121903416
For The Students of B.Sc. , M.Sc. and Competitive Examinations
Author : Susan A. McCarthy
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Ethnobotany
ISBN : 1568069294
A collection of 591 citations from the AGRICOLA database.
Author : Michael J Balick,Paul Alan Cox
Publisher : Garland Science
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000098488
Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the world’s leading ethnobotanists argue that our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants. Creating massive sea craft from plants, indigenous shipwrights spurred the navigation of the world’s oceans. Today, indigenous agricultural innovations continue to feed, clothe, and heal the world’s population. One out of four prescription drugs, for example, were discovered from plants used by traditional healers. Objects as common as baskets for winnowing or wooden boxes to store feathers were ornamented with traditional designs demonstrating the human ability to understand our environment and to perceive the cosmos. Throughout the world, the human body has been used as the ultimate canvas for plant-based adornment as well as indelible design using tattoo inks. Plants also garnered religious significance, both as offerings to the gods and as a doorway into the other world. Indigenous claims that plants themselves are sacred is leading to a startling reformulation of conservation. The authors argue that conservation goals can best be achieved by learning from, rather than opposing, indigenous peoples and their beliefs. KEY FEATURES • An engrossing narrative that invites the reader to personally engage with the relationship between plants, people, and culture • Full-color illustrations throughout—including many original photographs captured by the authors during fieldwork • New to this edition—"Plants That Harm," a chapter that examines the dangers of poisonous plants and the promise that their study holds for novel treatments for some of our most serious diseases, including Alzheimer’s and substance addiction • Additional readings at the end of each chapter to encourage further exploration • Boxed features on selected topics that offer further insight • Provocative questions to facilitate group discussion Designed for the college classroom as well as for lay readers, this update of Plants, People, and Culture entices the reader with firsthand stories of fieldwork, spectacular illustrations, and a deep respect for both indigenous peoples and the earth’s natural heritage.
Author : Beryl Simpson,Molly Ogorzaly
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0072909382
Written for the introductory-level course in Economic Botany, this edition offers more emphasis on key topics like biotechnology and ethnobotany.
Author : Daniel F. Austin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780203491881
Winner of the 2005 Klinger Book Award Presented by The Society for Economic Botany. Florida Ethnobotany provides a cross-cultural examination of how the states native plants have been used by its various peoples. This compilation includes common names of plants in their historical sequence, weaving together what was formerly esoteri
Author : Beryl Brintnall Simpson,Molly Conner-Ogorzaly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Botany, Economic
ISBN : 0071181881
Written for the introductory-level course in Economic Botany, this edition offers more emphasis on key topics like biotechnology and ethnobotany.
Author : Afroz Alam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9386768933
Author : Miguel N. Alexiades (ed),Jennie Wood Sheldon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:49015002949619
Conducting ethnobotanical research; Protocol for conducting ethnobotanical research in the tropics; Professional ethics and ethnobotanical research; Collecting ethnobotanical data: an introduction to basic concepts and techniques; Collecting plant specimens; Standard techniques for collecting and preparing herbarium specimens; Collecting palm specimens; Recommendations for collecting mushrooms; Guidelines for collecting bryophytes; Collecting bulk specimens: methods and environmental precautions; Quantitative methods in ethnobotanical fieldwork; Some quantitative methods for analyzing ethnobotanical knowledge; Behavioral orientations toward ethnobotanical quantification; Beyond nomenclature and use: a review of ecological methods for ethnobotanists.
Author : Gary J. Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781461524960
Ethnoecology has blossomed in recent years into an important science because of the realization that the vast body of knowledge contained in both indigenous and folk cultures is being rapidly lost as natural ecosystems and cultures are being destroyed by the encroachment of development. Ethnobotany and ethnozoology both began largely with direct observations about the ways in which people used plants and animals and consisted mainly of the compilation of lists. Recently, these subjects have adopted a much more scientific and quantitative methodology and have studied the ways in which people manage their environment and, as a consequence, have used a much more ecological approach. This manual of ethnobotanical methodology will become an essential tool for all ethnobiologists and ethnoecologists. It fills a significant gap in the literature and I only wish it had been available some years previously so that I could have given it to many of my students. I shall certainly recommend it to any future students who are interested in ethnoecology. I particularly like the sympathetic approach to local peoples which pervades this book. It is one which encourages the ethnobotanical work by both the local people themselves and by academically trained researchers. A study of this book will avoid many of the arrogant approaches of the past and encourage a fair deal for any group which is being studied. This manual promotes both the involvement oflocal people and the return to them of knowledge which has been studied by outsiders.
Author : Andrea Pieroni,Ina Vandebroek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781845456795
The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany?
Author : A.V.S.S. Sammbamurty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Ethnobotany
ISBN : 8123906293