Traveling Cultures and Plants

The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

294 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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?

• Reihe: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Biologie, Biowissenschaften Botanik und Pflanzenwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9781845456795
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2009
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Ina Vandebroek, Andrea Pieroni