Author(s) :
Balick, M. J.
;
Cox, P. A.
Author Affiliation :
New York Botanical Garden, Institute of Economic Botany, Bronx, New York 10458-5126, USA.
Book
:
Plants, people, and culture: the science of ethnobotany.
1996
pp.ix + 228 pp.
ref.10 pp. of
Abstract :
The relationship between plants and people is discussed in the following chapters: (1) People and plants, including the traditional use of
medicinal plantsmedicinal plantsSubject Category: Organism Groups
see more detailsmedicinal plantsSubject Category: Commodities and Products
see more details by indigenous peoples, the use of medicinal plants in the past and present, and the role that
ethnobotanyethnobotanySubject Category: Disciplines, Occupations and Industries
see more details can play today; (2) Plants that heal, including the history of
quininequinineSubject Category: Chemicals and Chemical Groups
see more details (extracted from
CinchonacinchonaSubject Category: Organism Names
see more details), a list of 50 drugs extracted from plants (with Latin name, family name and medicinal use), the work of ethnobotanists in the field, the collection and preparation of herbarium specimens, ethnobotanical research and traditional health care in developing countries, and safeguarding indigenous
intellectual property rightsintellectual property rightsSubject Category: Miscellaneous
see more details; (3) From hunting to gathering haute cuisine, including the incidence of
diabetesdiabetesSubject Category: Diseases, Disorders, and Symptoms
see more details,
hypercholesterolaemiahypercholesterolaemiaSubject Category: Diseases, Disorders, and Symptoms
see more detailshypercholesterolaemiaSubject Category: Diseases, Disorders, and Symptoms
see more details and obesity in traditional peoples who change to a Western diet, food as medicine, the domestication of
maizemaizeSubject Category: Commodities and Products
see more details, Polynesian strategies for food preservation, famine foods and
sagosagoSubject Category: Commodities and Products
see more details [
Metroxylon sagumetroxylon saguSubject Category: Organism Names
see more details] production, crop origins and plants rediscovered as useful
cropscropsSubject Category: Organism Groups
see more detailscropsSubject Category: Commodities and Products
see more details; (4) Plants as the basis for material culture, including the spread of plants with travellers and voyagers, the use of plants to make tattoos, body paints and dyes, clothes and tools, and plants as an impetus for European exploration; (5) Entering the other world, including the use of hallucinogenic and psychoactive plants; and (6) Biological conservation and ethnobotany, including indigenous perspectives on conservation, quantitative ethnobotany in
South Americasouth americaSubject Category: Geographic Entities
see more details, sustainable production from
rain forestsrain forestsSubject Category: Vegetation Types
see more details, conflicts between indigenous peoples and
nature reservesnature reservesSubject Category: Miscellaneous
see more details, indigenous-controlled reserves and the future of ethnobotanical conservation. There is an index.
ISBN :
0716750619
Record Number :
19960307911
Publisher :
Scientific American Library
Location of publication :
New York
Country of publication :
USA
Language of text :
English
Indexing terms for this abstract:
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South Americasouth americaSubject Category: Geographic Entities
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