Published on the 100th anniversary of the science of ethnobotany, this volume provides a comprehensive summary of the history and current state of the field. The 36 articles present a truly global perspective on the theory and practice of today's ethnobotany.
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The value of biodiversity and the need to preserve the untapped botanical resources of places like the Amazon rain forests is now widely acknowledged. Less widely understood but equally threatened is a key means of access to these resources, the knowledge and use of these plants by local nonliterate peoples whose traditional cultures are fast disappearing. This book explains and promotes ethnobotany, which investigates this knowledge by providing an overview of its history, practice, and value worldwide. Chapters are contributed by an impressive international array of field ethnobotanists, conservationists, and academics. Schultes spent many years as a field ethnobotanist, professor, and director of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, where von Reis is an associate. This is an important, in-depth academic study of a discipline for those with a serious interest in ethnobotany. Libraries seeking more popular works might consider two books Schultes wrote with Robert F. Raffauf: the photographic essay Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia (Synergetic Pr., 1992) and The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia (Dioscorides Pr., 1990).?Marit MacArthur, Auraria Lib., Denver
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Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"An important reference for anyone interested in a whole range of fields related to plants and people from anthropology to sociology; highly recommended for all libraries."—L. G. Kavaljian, Choice, September 1996 (L. G. Kavaljian Choice )
"An important, in-depth academic study of a discipline for those with a serious interest in ethnobotany."—Marit MacArthur, Library Journal, August 1, 1995 (Marit MacArthur Library Journal )
"A timely volume that presents a broad overview of ethnobotany, showing how this rapidly developing field of inquiry has evolved to its present day high degree of sophisticaiton."—Northeastern Naturalist, February 1998 (Northeastern Naturalist )
"An important, in-depth academic study of a discipline for those with a serious interest in ethnobotany."—Marit MacArthur, Library Journal, August 1, 1995 (Marit MacArthur Library Journal )
"A timely volume that presents a broad overview of ethnobotany, showing how this rapidly developing field of inquiry has evolved to its present day high degree of sophisticaiton."—Northeastern Naturalist, February 1998 (Northeastern Naturalist )
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This book is a great compilation from leading ethnobotanists, describing the field, and bringing pertinent issues to the fore. It is an excellent collection, with well-renowned ethnobotanists like Plotkin, Balick, and Naranjo. It is an excellent source, and tells all about ethnobotany, the science that may preserve human existence now, and in the future.
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A broad range of excellent papers are collected in this volume that gives a variety of perspectives on the history and field of ethnobotany itself. For example, one point that is made is how difficult it is for a Western scientist who had bee trained in an agroindustrial world to understand both the scientific and culturally relevant aspects of a plant, especially since the scientist perspective is so different from the person who has grown up in a culture so different and dependent on a more intimate relationship with the biological world. It will serve as a fine and authoritative reference for my classes where ethnobotanical investigation has relevance.
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Great book for you plant nerds out there...a book edited by the late great Richard Schultes?...what more can you ask for?
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Although ethnobotany has only recently come into its own as a distinct academic component of the natural sciences, interest in the uses, symbolism, ritualistic, and other aspects of the practical, everyday interrelationship between people and plants has long been a definite part of human thought and activity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, British Columbia, Dioscorides Press, North America, South American, Harvard University, Academic Press, United States, Botanical Museum Leaflets, Native Americans, American Anthropologist, Orang Ash, Journal of Ethnobiology, Bella Coola, Old World, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, Near East, Popol Vuh, Southeast Asia, Ann Arbor, Peruvian Amazon, Amazonian Indians, Rig Veda, University of Washington, Government Printing Office New!
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Although ethnobotany has only recently come into its own as a distinct academic component of the natural sciences, interest in the uses, symbolism, ritualistic, and other aspects of the practical, everyday interrelationship between people and plants has long been a definite part of human thought and activity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, British Columbia, Dioscorides Press, North America, South American, Harvard University, Academic Press, United States, Botanical Museum Leaflets, Native Americans, American Anthropologist, Orang Ash, Journal of Ethnobiology, Bella Coola, Old World, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, Near East, Popol Vuh, Southeast Asia, Ann Arbor, Peruvian Amazon, Amazonian Indians, Rig Veda, University of Washington, Government Printing Office New!
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