| Description |
xii, 394 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 14 |
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Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; v. 14
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| Contents |
The ethnobotany of Europe, past and present / Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Andrea Pieroni, and Rajindra K. Puri --People and plants in Lëpushë : traditional medicine, local foods, and post-communism in a northern Albanian village / Andrea Pieroni -- The cultural significance of wild-gathered plant species in Kartitsch (Eastern Tyrol, Austria) and the influence of socioeconomic changes on local gathering practices / Anja Christanell ... [et al.] -- Local innovations to folk medical conditions : two major phytotherapeutic treatments from the Maltese Islands / Timothy J. Tabone -- Local awareness of scarcity and endangerment of medicinal plants in Roussenski Lom Natural Park in Northern Bulgaria / Hugo J. de Boer -- "My doctor doesn't understand why I use them" : herbal and food medicines amongst the Bangladeshi community in West Yorkshire, U.K. / Andrea Pieroni ... [et al.] -- Persistance of wild food and wild medicinal plant knowledge in a northeastern region of Portugal / Ana Maria Carvalho and Ramón Morales -- The use of wild edible plants in the Graecanic area in Calabria, Southern Italy / Sabine Nebel and Michael Heinrich -- The ecology and use of edible thistles in Évora, Alentejo, Southeastern Portugal / Maria José Barão and Alexandra Soveral Dias -- Spring is coming : the gathering and consumption of wild vegetables in Spain / Javier Tardío -- Plants as symbols in Scotland today / Veerle Van den Eynden -- The botanical identity and cultural significance of Lithuanian jovaras : an ethnobotanical riddle / Daiva Šeškauskaitė and Bernd Gliwa -- Norway's rosmarin (Rhododendron tomentosum) in past and present tradition / Torbjørn Alm and Marianne Iversen -- Chamomiles in Spain : the dynamics of plant nomenclature / Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana and Ramón Morales -- A preliminary study of the plant knowledge and grassland management practices of English livestock farmers, with implications for grassland conservation / Jenny L. McCune -- A comparative study of rural and urban allotments in Gravesham, Kent, U.K. / Christine Wildhaber |
| Summary |
Interest in environmental anthropology has grown steadily in recent years, reflecting national and international concern about the environment and developing research priorities, This major new international series is a vehicle for publishing up-to-date monographs and edited works on particular issues, themes, places, or peoples which focus on the interrelationship between society, culture, and the environment. Relevant areas include human ecology, the perception and representation of the environment, ethno-ecological knowledge, the human dimension of biodiversity conservation, and the ethnorgraphy of environmental problems. while the underlying ethos of the series will be anthropological, the approach is interdisciplinary. -- |
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The Study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines in an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ehnobotanical studies in new contexts. Modern botanical and medical science itself was built on studies of medieval Europeans' use of food plants and medicinal herbs. In spite of monumental changes introduced in the Age of Discovery and Mercantile Capitalism, some communities, often immigrants in foreign lands, continue to hold onto old recipes and traditons, while others have adopted and enculturated exotic plants and remedies into their diets and pharmacopoeia in new and creative ways. Now in the 21st century, in the age of the European Union and globalization, European folk botany is once again dynamically responding to changing cultural, economic and political contexts. The authors and studies presented in this volume reflect work being conducted across Europe's many regions. They tell the soty of the ongoing evolution of -- |
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human-plant relations in one of the most bioculturally dynamic places on the planet, and explore new approaches that link the re-evaluation of plant-based cultural heritage with the conservation and use of biocultural diversity. --Book Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ethnobotany -- Europe.
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Human-plant relationships -- Europe.
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Medicinal plants -- Europe.
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Plants and civilization -- Europe.
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Ethnobotany.
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Plants, Edible.
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Plants, Medicinal.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060 |
| Author |
Pardo de Santayana, Manuel.
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Pieroni, Andrea.
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Puri, Rajindra K.
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| LC no. |
2010006436 |
| ISBN |
1845454561 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9781845454562 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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