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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... country of origin) with ex situ (in immigrants' host countries).1 Nevertheless, the dynamic and challenging subfield of urban ethnobotany is 00 intro Pieroni-P.pdf Introduction.
... countries (Trevino 1999; Mackenbach 2006). For instance, it has been shown that immigration to Western metropolitan areas has a significant impact on migrants' experience and meaning of illness, and on their health care-seeking ...
... country aware of these strategies? Mobility. in. Urban. Environments. Mobility is a key factor in shaping human history ... countries of origin, where people tend to move away from rural areas toward urban centers. Transnational migration ...
... in New York City only” (and hence not used in the Dominican Republic, nor used in both countries) were compared with Dominican and Caribbean plant-use data from scientific literature. The results demonstrate Introduction 5.
... countries. However, the multicultural urban setting in New York City allows immigrant healers to experiment, interchange, disseminate, and gain profit from their knowledge on a larger scale than in their country of origin. At the same ...
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