Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant…mehr
Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants.
Elisabeth Hsu is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, where she has convened its master's courses in medical anthropology since 2001. Based on her earlier studies in biology (botany), linguistics and sinology, she has published widely on the history and anthropology of Chinese medicine.
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List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction Elisabeth Hsu History Editorial introduction Stephen Harris Chapter 1. Non-native plants and their medicinal uses Stephen Harris Chapter 2. Qinghao .. (Herba Artemisiae annuae) in the Chinese materia medica Elisabeth Hsu (in consultation with Frederic Obringer) Anthropology Editorial introduction Stephen Harris Chapter 3. Shamanic plants and gender in the Peruvian Upper Amazon Francoise Barbira Freedman Chapter 4. Persons, plants and relations: treating childhood illness in a western Kenyan village P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince Plant Portraits Editorial introduction Stephen Harris Chapter 5. East goes West. Ginkgo biloba and dementia Sir John Grimley Evans Chapter 6. Medicinal, stimulant and ritual plant use: an ethnobotany of caffeine-containing plants Caroline S. Weckerle, Verena Timbul and Philip Blumenshine Index
List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction Elisabeth Hsu History Editorial introduction Stephen Harris Chapter 1. Non-native plants and their medicinal uses Stephen Harris Chapter 2. Qinghao .. (Herba Artemisiae annuae) in the Chinese materia medica Elisabeth Hsu (in consultation with Frederic Obringer) Anthropology Editorial introduction Stephen Harris Chapter 3. Shamanic plants and gender in the Peruvian Upper Amazon Francoise Barbira Freedman Chapter 4. Persons, plants and relations: treating childhood illness in a western Kenyan village P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince Plant Portraits Editorial introduction Stephen Harris Chapter 5. East goes West. Ginkgo biloba and dementia Sir John Grimley Evans Chapter 6. Medicinal, stimulant and ritual plant use: an ethnobotany of caffeine-containing plants Caroline S. Weckerle, Verena Timbul and Philip Blumenshine Index
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