Ethnobotany: A Reader

Capa
Paul E. Minnis
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000 - 327 páginas

This reader in ethnobotany includes fourteen chapters organized in four parts. Paul Minnis provides a general introduction; the authors of the section introductions are Catherine S. Foeler (ethnoecology), Cecil H. Brown (folk classification), Timothy Jones (foods and medicines), and Richard I. Ford (agriculture).

Ethnobotany: A Reader is intended for use as a textbook in upper division undergraduate and graduate courses in economic botany, ethnobotany, and human ecology. The book brings together for the first time previously published journal articles that provide diverse perspectives on a wide variety of topics in ethnobotany. Contributors include: Janis B. Alcorn, M. Kat Anderson, Stephen B. Brush, Robert A. Bye, George F. Estabrook, David H. French, Eugene S. Hunn, Charles F. Hutchinson, Eric Mellink, Paul E. Minnis, Brian Morris, Gary P. Nabhan, Amadeo M. Rea, Karen L. Reichhardt, Jan Timbrook, Nancy J. Turner, and Robert A. Voeks.

 

Páginas selecionadas

Conteúdo

Introduction
3
Catherine S Fowler 13 113
13
An Introduction
65
An Introduction
143
An Introduction
243
Choice of Fuel for Bagaço Still Helps Maintain Biological
307
List of Contact Authors
321
Direitos autorais

Termos e frases comuns

agricultural Amer Andean animals Apache Ariz Arizona basketry Berlin binomial biological classification black seeded botanical California Candomblé Castetter Chewa Chumash color Columbia common coppicing crop cultivated cultural Desert Borderlands devil's claw diversity domesticated ecological economic edible environment Ethnobiology ethnobotany ethnographic example factors famine foods farmers fields flowers folk classification folk taxonomies fruit fungi grass groups habitat Harrington 1986 harvest Havasupai Hopi Huastec human Hunn Iansã Indian indigenous languages lexemes life-form Lillooet Lillooet and Thompson louisianica maize Martynia mato medicinal Mexico Nabhan names native potatoes nomenclature NW-cosm Ogun orixás Oxalá Oxum Papago parviflora Paucartambo Pima plants populations Press Proboscidea production Pueblos Quitobaquito Quitovac redbud resource Sahaptin Salish shrubs soil Southern Sierra Miwok species subsistence Table Tarahumara taxa taxon taxonomies term traditional tree tubers Tulumayo Turner Tzeltal Univ University utilized Valley varieties vegetation weed white seeded race wild

Referências a este livro

Sobre o autor (2000)

Paul E. Minnis, Professor of Anthroplogy at the University of Oklahoma, is the editor of Ethnobotany: A Reader and coeditor of Biodiversity and Native America.

Informações bibliográficas

TítuloEthnobotany: A Reader
EditorPaul E. Minnis
Ediçãoilustrada, reimpressão
EditoraUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 2000
ISBN0806131802, 9780806131801
Num. págs.327 páginas
  
Exportar citaçãoBiBTeX EndNote RefMan