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Author : Anonim
Publisher : MRI Prism
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Ethnobotany
ISBN : UCLA:L0091309310
Author : Anita Jain,S.K. Jain
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789386102119
Ethnobotany deals with traditional and indigenous associations of people with plants. The subject has been attracting more and more scholars in India and many other countries. It’s importance in search for new molecules from ethnomedicinal herbs and useful genes from wild relatives and land races of crops, still in use among many native folk, for genetic engineering has enhanced the importance of the discipline. The number of books and research papers published each year has been rapidly increasing .Research workers need to know about the work done on their topic of study. Bibliographies reviews greatly help in this and save their valuable time. About 2500 publications are listed in the present book. To facilitate the search of reference on particular region, ethnic groups or use categories indexes are given for providing clues to such search. Research guides can easily spot gaps in ethnobotanical studies in any ethnic society, as also regions of the country. Biographers will find from one source the work done in single or joint authorship by the scientist on whom they are writing. To facilitate this an index by surname of joint authors is also provided. The book will be an essential reference work for research workers.
Author : G. Singh
Publisher : Scientific Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789387307681
Author : Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 3926 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789401793766
This extensive work explores the changing world of religions, faiths and practices. It discusses a broad range of issues and phenomena that are related to religion, including nature, ethics, secularization, gender and identity. Broadening the context, it studies the interrelation between religion and other fields, including education, business, economics and law. The book presents a vast array of examples to illustrate the changes that have taken place and have led to a new world map of religions. Beginning with an introduction of the concept of the “changing world religion map”, the book first focuses on nature, ethics and the environment. It examines humankind’s eternal search for the sacred, and discusses the emergence of “green” religion as a theme that cuts across many faiths. Next, the book turns to the theme of the pilgrimage, illustrated by many examples from all parts of the world. In its discussion of the interrelation between religion and education, it looks at the role of missionary movements. It explains the relationship between religion, business, economics and law by means of a discussion of legal and moral frameworks, and the financial and business issues of religious organizations. The next part of the book explores the many “new faces” that are part of the religious landscape and culture of the Global North (Europe, Russia, Australia and New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada) and the Global South (Latin America, Africa and Asia). It does so by looking at specific population movements, diasporas, and the impact of globalization. The volume next turns to secularization as both a phenomenon occurring in the Global religious North, and as an emerging and distinguishing feature in the metropolitan, cosmopolitan and gateway cities and regions in the Global South. The final part of the book explores the changing world of religion in regards to gender and identity issues, the political/religious nexus, and the new worlds associated with the virtual technologies and visual media.
Author : Chukwuebuka Egbuna,Shashank Kumar,Jonathan Chinenye Ifemeje,Jaya Vikas Kurhekar
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780429760242
As volume 2 of this three-volume set on phytochemistry, this book features chapters that comprehensively review a selection of important recent advances in ethnopharmacology and alternative and complementary medicines. It also presents many informative chapters on the medicinal potential of phytochemicals in the treatment and management of various diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, diabetic nephropathy, autoimmune diseases, neurological disorders, male infertility, and more.
Author : Chukwuebuka Egbuna,Jonathan Chinenye Ifemeje,Stanley Udedi Chidi,Shashank Kumar,Jaya Vikas Kurhekar,Nadia Sharif
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1806 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780429760488
The 3-volume set, Phytochemistry, covers a wide selection of topics in phytochemistry and provides a wealth of information on the fundamentals, new applications, methods and modern analytical techniques, state-of-the-art approaches, and computational techniques. With chapters from professional specialists in their fields from around the world, the volumes deliver a comprehensive coverage of phytochemistry. Phytochemistry is a multidisciplinary field, so this book will appeal to students in both upper-level students, faculty, researchers, and industry professionals in a number of fields, including biological science, biochemistry, pharmacy, food and medicinal chemistry, systematic botany and taxonomy, ethnobotany, conservation biology, plant genetic and metabolomics, evolutionary sciences, and plant pathology.
Author : Karuppusamy Arunachalam,Xuefei Yang,Sreeja Puthanpura Sasidharan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1509 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031287800
This book focuses on natural products, in particular medicinal plants and their derived products, as an indispensable source of bioactive molecules that serve as either drug candidates or lead compounds for drug design and discovery . There are several advantages for plant-derived therapeutics, including wide availability, diverse pharmacological actions, and a generally good profile of safety and tolerability. Over the recent years, there have been numerous reports from clinical studies testifying the efficacy and safety of medicinal plants and phytochemicals in treating human diseases. A plethora of basic studies has also unraveled molecular mechanisms underlying the health benefits of herbal medicines. Nevertheless, issues such as identification of bioactive ingredients, standardization of the products, and drug interactions remain to be systematically documented. Bioprospecting of Tropical Medicinal Plants represents a comprehensive analysis of natural products, mainly medicinal plants and phytochemicals. It includes detailed medicinal properties and pharmacological action from in vitro models to clinical trials. The goal is to present the readers a carefully curated collection of plant-derived natural products and their underlying molecular mechanisms.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Botany
ISBN : CORNELL:31924097796738
Author : Ulysses Paulino De Albuquerque
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Plants, Useful
ISBN : 8130802430
Introduction - The field of ethnobotany has grown significantly in the last few years, incorporating a wide range of methodologies, and investigative and theoretical approaches. The opening of different investigative directions based on diverse lines of research has created a need to consolidate and systematize the different approaches that have been adopted. Much current research is oriented towards examining how local practices influence biodiversity and the conservation of natural resources. The last decade has also seen an increase in the number of published works examining and standardizing research methodologies. The chapters of this book have thus sought to capture some of these new trends in ethnobotany, and we hope they can contribute to exchanging experiences among ethnobotanical investigators. This book comprises eight chapters with distinct focuses, including case studies based on ecological, biological, and social approaches, discussions of methodologies used in data collection, as well as state-of-the-art investigations into new/old areas of ethnobotanical inquiry. The first chapter presents an overview of the ethnobotanical and ecological studies underway in the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, México. The authors examine the management techniques adopted by local communities and their impact on biodiversity, and discuss perspectives for conservation and sustainable use of the local vegetation. McClatchey and Bridges have prepared a text that is of great interest to biologists, geographers, and ethnoecologists, which focuses on the selection of habitats by human populations in the Marshall Islands. The authors conclude that the shape of the island appears to explain their selection and habitation within an atoll, while the total land area explains the population distribution in the Marshall Islands. This study goes beyond the traditional limits of ethnobotanical research. In the third chapter, Ladio and Lozada present a case study undertaken in rural communities in northeastern Patagonia (Argentina) that examines the use of medicinal plants and relates this ancestral practice to the concept of resilience. The authors also evaluate the principal illnesses that occur within the community and examine how the prevalence of those infirmities is related to the diversity of plants used by local populations. The text presented by Pulido and collaborators reviews and discusses research on homegardens in Latina America in light of three central topics their ecological, economic, and social sustainability. The authors discuss methodological questions applied to these studies and consider their strengths and weaknesses in terms of data collection. In the fifth chapter, Amorozo and co-authors describe the general panorama of ethnobotanical studies related to small-scale agricultural systems, with special emphasis on work in tropical regions. The authors describe the structure and functioning of these systems in considerable detail, paying special attention to their dynamics and evolution. Questions are raised concerning the maintenance and conservation of genetic recourses, as well as the contribution of ethnobotanical studies to research on the sustainability of agroecosystems. In chapter six, La Torre-Cuadros presents an exhaustive review of research focusing on ethnic groups in the Peruvian Amazon region undertaken between 1895 and 2007. The work is centered upon local folk knowledge collected during the last 50 years, and examines the principal advances in ethnobotany in Peru. The final two chapters discuss the efficiency of a number of methodological tools used in modern ethnobotanical research. Chapter seven, by Monteiro and co-authors, compares the richness of information about useful plants acquired through three different methodologies: general interviews, interviews within a specific cultural domain, and in situ inventories. The authors conclude that different methodologies result in the collection of distinctly different data sets. These results have important implications in choosing data collection techniques. Chapter eight, by Medeiros and co-workers, reviews the role of visual stimuli in ethnobotanical research, discusses the methodological limitations of the different visual techniques employed, and suggests a standardization of the terminology used for the different types of visual stimuli. This work is of considerable importance in light of the current lack of conceptual precision in the application of these research tools. In general, the different chapters of this book emphasize the diversity of questions that face the present generation of ethnobotanists and describe a number of active investigative areas. Finally, we would like to thank those who helped in the production of this book, especially the reviewers for their assistance and helpfulness in evaluating each chapter and for presenting valuable suggestions.
Author : Bombay Natural History Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015066249148
Author : Thomas J. S. Carlson,Luisa Maffi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015062599389
"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 : T. Pullaiah,K. V. Krishnamurthy,Bir Bahadur
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781315341927
This is the second of a five-volume set. This series of volumes on the ethnobotany of different regions of India melds important knowledge in one place. India is one of the most important regions of the old world and has culturally rich and diverse knowledge systems. The expert authors have been selected to summarize information on the various aspects of ethnobotany of India, such as ethnoecology, traditional agriculture, cognitive ethnobotany, material sources, traditional pharmacognosy, ethnoconservation strategies, bioprospection of ethnodirected knowledge, and protection of ethnobotanical knowledge.
Author : T. Pullaiah,K. V. Krishnamurthy,Bir Bahadur
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 2242 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351737661
This new 5-volume set, Ethnobotany of India, provides an informative overview of human-plant interrelationships in India, focusing on the regional plants and their medicinal properties and uses. Each volume focuses on a different significant region of India, including Volume 1: Eastern Ghats and Deccan Volume 2: Western Ghats and West Coast of Peninsular India Volume 3: North-East India and Andaman and Nicobar Islands Volume 4: Western and Central Himalaya Volume 5: The Indo-Gangetic Region and Central India With chapters written by experts in the field, the book provides comprehensive information on the tribals (the indigenous populations of the region) and knowledge on plants that grow around them. Each volume includes an introductory chapter with an overview of the region and then goes on to cover ethnic diversity and culture of the ethnic tribes plants used for healing and medical purposes for humans and animals ethnic food plants and ethnic food preparation specific information on the ethnomedicinal plants, the parts used, and the diseases cured other uses of plants by the ethnic tribes, such as for fiber, dyes, flavor, and recreation conservation, documentation, and management efforts of the ethnic communities and their plant knowledge The books include the details of the plants used, their scientific names, the parts used, and how the plants are used, providing the what, how, and why of plant usage. The volumes are well illustrated with over 100 color and 130 b/w illustrations. Together, the five volumes in the Ethnobotany of India series bring together the available ethnobotanical knowledge of India in one place. India is one of the most important regions of the old world, and its ancient and culturally rich and diverse knowledge of ethnobotany will be valuable to many in the fields of botany and plant sciences, pharmacognosy and pharmacology, nutraceuticals, and others. The books also consider the threat to plant biodiversity imposed by environmental degradation, which impacts cultural diversity.
Author : P. S. Ramakrishnan,K. G. Saxena,U. M. Chandrashekara
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022951565
This text, sponsored by UNESCO, provides a critical evaluation of the sacred groves from a variety of perspectives: ecological, social, anthropological and cultural attributes of the sacred groves; spatial dimensions of the sacred, leading to species- and landscape-level analysis, determining ecosystem/langscape level functional attributes; the whole issue of managing the sacred in the contemporary climate of declining natural resources, land degradation and rehabilitation ecology; and management related policy implications.
Author : Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy. Conference,Abhaya Prasad Das
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Ethnobotany
ISBN : UOM:39015074360275
With reference to India.