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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... Acculturation Melissa Ceuterick, Ina Vandebroek, Bren Torry, Andrea Pieroni Chapter 8 166 Hackney's “Ethnic Economy” Revisited: Local Food Culture, Ethnic “Purity”, and the Politico-Historical Articulation of Kurdish Identity Sarah ...
... acculturation processes (Bodeker et al. 2005; Nesheim et al. 2006). Acculturation has been identified as one of the explanatory concepts that encompass the complexity of migrant adaptation (Janes and Pawson 1986). Acculturation has been ...
... acculturation. Some groups, for example, have reduced their intake of traditional foods that contain plant species with known hypoglycemic potential. Reasons for no longer using these species included a lack of knowledge about these ...
... acculturation and a way of alleviating despair. Many refugees report feeling that their lives have been wasted. When they emigrate, they abandoned hope of ever returning to western Sahara. This, and the influence of different host ...
... acculturated. The Dominican Republic is culturally diverse due to historical events and migrations of various cultural groups. It should be noted that in addition to plant species distribution across the Dominican Republic, cultural ...
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