Traveling Cultures and Plants

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Traveling Cultures and Plants
Traveling Cultures and Plants
Author : Andrea Pieroni
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Language : English
Release Date : 01 October 2009
ISBN : 9781845456795
Pages : 294 pages
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Traveling Cultures and Plants by Andrea Pieroni Book PDF Summary

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?

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