Michael J Balick, Paul Alan Cox

Plants, People, and Culture

The Science of Ethnobotany

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the worldâ s leading ethnobotanists argue that the very roots of human culture are deeply intertwined with plants. Plants, People, and Culture, Second Edition is designed for the college classroom as well as for the general lay reader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• 2 ed
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 278mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780815345909
• ISBN-10: 0815345909
• Artikelnr.: 59983586

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Balick is Vice President and Director of the Institute of Economic Botany and Senior Philecology Curator at The New York Botanical Garden. He has studied the relationship between plants, people, and culture in the Amazon Valley, Central and South America, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania. Paul Alan Cox, recognized by Time Magazine as a "Hero of Medicine" for his ethnobotanical search for new medicines, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his conservation efforts with indigenous peoples. He founded the island conservation organization Seacology and is Director of the Brain Chemistry Labs in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Inhaltsangabe

1. People and Plants. 2. Plants That Heal. 3. Plants That Harm. 4. From
Hunting and Gathering to Haute Cuisine. 5. Plants as the Basis for Material
Culture. 6. Entering the Other World. 7. Biological Conservation and
Ethnobotany.