Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human MigrationsAndrea Pieroni, Ina Vandebroek The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany? |
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... (San Miguel), La Colonia, and San Cristóbal city (Hacienda Fundación) 16 1.2 Venn diagrams illustrating the number of medicinal plant species (A) and botanical families (B) reported by women in rural (n = 67) and urban study sites (n ...
... San Cristóbal U2 (n = 72) who reported a remedy for the ten health conditions. Reports: shaded; No reports: white Venn diagram illustrating the number of medicinal plant species reported in Dominican ethnobotanical literature ...
... San Cristóbal (figure 1.1). Both a rural community and an urban community were selected in each province. La Vega is located in the central region of the country known as the Cibao, and San Cristóbal is located southwest of the capital ...
... San Cristóbal (n = 72)). Healers were not included in these analyses of urban and rural communities because the number of healers per study site was significantly different (G-test, p < 0.0005) and the mean number of distinct plant ...
... San Cristóbal. The plant species most frequently mentioned by women were Matricaria recutita L. and Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri Raym.-Hamet & H. Perrier, with 103 and 95 field reports, respectively. Table 1.2 lists all plants in the ...
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