Plants, health and healing : on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology
Plants have cultural histories, and their culturally known applications change through time and across contexts. The impact of individual plant species on human cultures has been profound, whether it is the coca and quinine from South America or tea and coffee from the Old World. This pattern is see...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books ,
c2010
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| Series: | Epistemologies of healing
v. 6 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Non-native plants and their medicinal uses
- 2. Qing Hao (herba artemisiae annuae) in the Chinese Materia Medica
- 3. Shamanic plants and gender in the healing forest
- 4. Persons, plants and relations: treating childhood illness in a Western Kenyan Village
- 5. East goes West. Ginkgo biloba and dementia
- 6. Medicinal, stimulant and ritual use: an ethnobotany of caffeine-containing plants