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Author : Howard Scott Gentry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Agavaceae
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017226454
Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Author : Howard Scott Gentry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Agavaceae
ISBN : UIUC:30112019254785
Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Plants
ISBN : UVA:X004316089
Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 4038 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781482250640
"Following on the successes of two previous dictionary projects, the CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names and the CRC World Dictionary of the Grasses, Umberto Quattrocchi has undertaken this dictionary of economically important plants.... He has done for these plants what was so admirably done in his other works—brought the vast and scattered literature on plant names, and in this case, too, their uses, into coherent order so that the inquisitive scholar can get a foothold." —From the Foreword, Donald H. Pfister, Harvard University and Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts The CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology provides the starting point for better access to data on plants used around the world in medicine, food, and cultural practices. The material found in the five volumes has been painstakingly gathered from papers of general interest, reports and records, taxonomic revisions, field studies, herbaria and herbarium collections, notes, monographs, pamphlets, botanical literature, and literature tout court. It includes sources available at various natural history libraries, floras and standard flora works, local floras and local histories, nomenclatural histories, and the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature. Much more than a dictionary, the book provides the names of thousands of genera and species of economically important plants, concise summaries of plant properties, and appropriate observations about medicinal uses. Drawing from a tremendous range of primary and secondary sources, it is an indispensable time-saving guide for all those involved with botany, herbal medicine, pharmacognosy, toxicology, medicinal and natural product chemistry, and agriculture.
Author : Howard Scott Gentry
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816523955
New in paperback Spring 2004, this is an indispensable guide to agaves. The uses of agaves are as many as the arts of man have found it convenient to devise. At least two races of man have invaded Agaveland during the last ten to fifteen thousand years, where, with the help of agaves, they contrived several successive civilizations. The region of greatest use development is Mesoamerica. Here the great genetic diversity in a genus rich in use potential came into the hands of several peoples who developed the main agricultural center of the Americas. Perhaps, as the Aztec legends suggest, it was the animals that first showed man the edibility of agave. Evolution in use ranges all the way from the coincidental and spurious, through tool and food-drink subsistence with mystical overlay, to the practical specialties of modem industry and art. The historic period of agave will be outlined here as briefly as that complicated development will allow.
Author : Howard Scott Gentry
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0816523959
New in paperback Spring 2004, this is an indispensable guide to agaves. The uses of agaves are as many as the arts of man have found it convenient to devise. At least two races of man have invaded Agaveland during the last ten to fifteen thousand years, where, with the help of agaves, they contrived several successive civilizations. The region of greatest use development is Mesoamerica. Here the great genetic diversity in a genus rich in use potential came into the hands of several peoples who developed the main agricultural center of the Americas. Perhaps, as the Aztec legends suggest, it was the animals that first showed man the edibility of agave. Evolution in use ranges all the way from the coincidental and spurious, through tool and food-drink subsistence with mystical overlay, to the practical specialties of modem industry and art. The historic period of agave will be outlined here as briefly as that complicated development will allow.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:30000010145419
Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0816510148
Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw
Author : Arnold Krochmal,Howard Scott Gentry,John Jones Smoot,Howard Bradley Johnson,Richard M. Doughty,Laurie G. Houck,Russell S. Walters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Agavaceae
ISBN : UIUC:30112019248761
Author : Paul Schultz Martin
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816517266
The Río Mayo region of northwestern Mexico is a major geographic area whose natural history remains poorly known to outsiders. Lying in a region where desert and tropical, northern and southern, and continental and coastal species converge, it boasts an abundance of flora first documented by Howard Scott Gentry in 1942 in a book now widely regarded as a classic of botanical literature. This new book updates and amends Gentry's Río Mayo Plants. Undertaken with Gentry's support and participation before his death in 1993, it reproduces the original text, which appears here with annotations, and contains information on over 2,800 taxa—more than twice the 1,200 species first described by Gentry. The annotated list of plants includes information on distribution, habitat, appearance, common names, and indigenous uses. A new introduction provides historical background and a review of geography and vegetation. It also describes changes to the land and river wrought by agricultural development, expanded grazing, and lumbering. Throughout the text, the authors have endeavored to provide information on Río Mayo vegetation while emphasizing local knowledge and use of plants, to preserve Gentry's field-oriented focus, and to present botanical information with Gentry's exuberance and style. Río Mayo Plants has long stood as a book that displays a scientist's love of the English language, his fondness for native peoples, and his eye for beauty in nature. This updating of that work fills a gap in the botanical literature of this portion of North America and will be useful not only for botanists but also for biogeographers, taxonomists, land managers, and conservationists.
Author : Cynthia Radding
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816546916
Common understandings drawn from biblical references, literature, and art portray deserts as barren places that are far from God and spiritual sustenance. In our own time, attention focuses on the rigors of climate change in arid lands and the perils of the desert in the northern Mexican borderlands for migrants seeking shelter and a new life. Bountiful Deserts foregrounds the knowledge of Indigenous peoples in the arid lands of northwestern Mexico, for whom the desert was anything but barren or empty. Instead, they nurtured and harvested the desert as a bountiful and sacred space. Drawing together historical texts and oral testimonies, archaeology, and natural history, author Cynthia Radding develops the relationships between people and plants and the ways that Indigenous people sustained their worlds before European contact through the changes set in motion by Spanish encounters, highlighting the long process of colonial conflicts and adaptations over more than two centuries. This work reveals the spiritual power of deserts by weaving together the cultural practices of historical peoples and contemporary living communities, centered especially on the Yaqui/Yoeme and Mayo/Yoreme. Radding uses the tools of history, anthropology, geography, and ecology to paint an expansive picture of Indigenous worlds before and during colonial encounters. She re-creates the Indigenous worlds in both their spiritual and material realms, bringing together the analytical dimension of scientific research and the wisdom of oral traditions in its exploration of different kinds of knowledge about the natural world. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
Author : Natalia Deeb-Sossa,Jennifer Bickham Mendez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816541003
Accessible and engaging, Latinx Belonging underscores and highlights Latinxs' continued presence and contributions to everyday life in the United States as they both carve out and defend their place in society.
Author : Wendy C. Hodgson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780816532834
"Written to be easily accessible to general readers, the book is a valuable compendium for anyone interested in the desert's hidden bounty."--Jacket.
Author : Ted J. Case,Martin L. Cody
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520047990
Author : Richard Stephen Felger,Mary Beck Moser
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816534753
"People of the Desert and Sea is one of those books that should not have to wait a generation or two to be considered a classic. A feast for the eye as well as the mind, this ethnobotany of the Seri Indians of Sonora represents the most detailed exploration of plant use by a hunting-and-gathering people to date. . . . Scholarship in the best sense of the term—precise without being pedantic, exhaustive without exhausting its readers."—Journal of Arizona History "To read and gaze through this elegantly illustrated book is to be exposed, as if through a work of science fiction, to an astonishing and unknown cultural world."—North Dakota Quarterly
