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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... fieldwork with Kurdish migrants and refugees in a multiethnic London community and looks at food culture from this perspective. In particular, it explores the ways in which food becomes a marker of ethnic difference, and a means of ...
... fieldwork, we highlight the richness of plant species and herbal therapies used specifically for women's health, the diversity of this knowledge across rural, urban, and transnational landscapes, and the processes affecting cultural ...
... a survey and an interview format. Before conducting the fieldwork, data collection instruments were reviewed and approved by the City University of New York Graduate School Institutional Medicinal Plants and Cultural Variation 17.
... fieldwork in New York City with Dominican healers and piloted the questions with our collaborators in the Dominican Republic. Semi-structured interviews were used with healers to collect data about women's health conditions, including ...
... fieldwork, two women mentioned the use of flax in a plant mixture for vaginal infections. One of them also cited the same flax mixture for infertility. This is not surprising, because the majority of Dominican women interviewed ...
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