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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... Percent of Informants 220 12.1 Traditional Phytotherapeuticals Stored in Tents by Sahrawi People in South Algerian Refugee Camps 252 12.2 Other Biological Remedies Used by Sahrawi Refugees in South Algerian Camps 256 12.3 Origin of ...
... Percentage of Dominican women in Los Calabazos R1 (n = 33), La Colonia R2 (n = 34), La Vega U1 (n = 87), and San ... percent of taxa reported Location of the study area and geographical locations reported in the text Social networks ...
... percent of Dominicans surveyed in New York City emergency rooms in 1997 reported using complementary and alternative ... percent of the population residing in urban centers. The ethnic origins of the Dominican population are 73 percent ...
... percentage of individuals who knew a remedy for a health condition, and the number of field reports for specific medicinal plants and remedies. The sampling methods used in the Dominican Republic were structured differently than those ...
... percentage of rural and urban women who knew a remedy for a health condition, and the number of plant species known ... percent) named a plant or remedy for one of the ten health conditions. A total of 2,148 field reports of plants were ...
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