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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... Botánicas are multifunctional spaces. Here a healer and his friend, a regular at the botánica, play chess on a Sunday afternoon Proportions of traditional, semi-traditional and semi-Westernized diets consumed by Asian Indians (n=22 in ...
... botánicas are culturally grafted entities that resemble botánicas in immigrants' home countries. However, the multicultural urban setting in New York City allows immigrant healers to experiment, interchange, disseminate, and gain profit ...
... illness experience and help-seeking strategies of patients from Turkey and Bosnia in primary health care in Basel.” Health & Place 11: 261–273. Gomez-Beloz, A., and N. Chavez. 2001. “The botánica as a 12 Pieroni and Vandebroek.
... botánica as a culturally appropriate health care option for Latinos.” Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 7:537–546. Janes, C.R., and I.G. Pawson. 1986. “Migration and biocultural adaptation: Samoans in California.” Social ...
... botánicas in New York City to verify their scientific names and to better understand how plants are selected, which parts are used, and how the plants are prepared into medicines. Botánicas are shops that sell traditional remedies and ...
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