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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... group) as influenced by the length or duration of residence in the United States Number of plant species sold for different purposes in Amsterdam A Kurdish restaurant in Hackney decorated with political paraphernalia, including ...
... groups in Western 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 ...
... groups and host societies. Strengthening. or. Adapting. Cultural. Identities? Biocultural adaptation, cultural negotiation, and identity are key issues for anthropological discourses on displacement and migrations (Janes and Pawson 1986 ...
... group and continent. The first three chapters look into Latino immigrants in New York City; chapters 4 and 5 give an account of Asians in the United States and Europe; chapters 6 to 9 deal with immigrants in Western Europe, ranging from ...
... groups, which have different levels of 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 ...
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