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? |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 18
... oral consent forms) were approved by the Institutional Review Board of the City University of New York (IRB # 04-06-0599). Interviews were conducted with 175 Dominican participants, age eighteen or older, in Manhattan and the Bronx ...
... oral consent was obtained from all participants, and permission was asked to tape record each interview. To ensure confidentiality, an ID-number was assigned to each participant to code their interview materials. On average, interviews ...
... oral 5 obesity A, M oral 5 cancer, incl. leukemia A, M oral (prevention and treatment) 4 high cholesterol A, M oral 4 flu and common cold A, M oral flu and common cold2,6 3 asthma M oral asthma2 3 bronchitis and cough A, M oral 3 skin fungi ...
... oral oral oral oral topical oral, topical oral oral oral oral oral oral oral oral hypertension1,4,7 flatulence and stomach problems2,6,7 skin problems, including candidiasis and rash2 rheumatism1 febrifuge2,4 uterus (“raises the uterus ...
The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations Andrea Pieroni, Ina Vandebroek. oral oral oral oral, internal topical oral oral ritual 29 citations: manzanilla {Matricaria recutita L., Asteraceae}[Pic-Dom-92, Ref-IV-27] 27 ...
Contents
1 | |
14 | |
39 | |
03 chap PieroniPpdf | 64 |
04 chap PieroniPpdf | 86 |
05 chap PieroniPpdf | 104 |
06 chap PieroniPpdf | 122 |
07 chap PieroniPpdf | 145 |
08 chap PieroniPpdf | 166 |
09 chap PieroniPpdf | 186 |
10 chap PieroniPpdf | 204 |
11 chap PieroniPpdf | 227 |
12 chap PieroniPpdf | 245 |
13 contributors PieroniPpdf | 270 |
14 index PieroniPpdf | 276 |