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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... religious and ritual items, and/or dried and fresh medicinal plants) as focal points that maintain connections between a dispersed immigrant community of practitioners (healers) and followers (clients) of spiritual, religious, and ...
... religious identities. London: Routledge. Belliard, J.C., and J. Ramírez-Johnson. 2005. “Medical pluralism in the life of a Mexican immigrant woman.” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 27: 267–285. Bodeker, G., C. Neumann, P. Lall ...
... religious and ritual items such as candles, oils, figurines of saints, and holy water (agua bendita) (Fisch 1968; Borello and Mathias 1977; Delgado and Santiago 1998). Voucher specimens, often plant fragments from botánicas, were ...
... religious affiliation, affiliation in community organizations, and occupation. A short household inventory estimated socioeconomic background. The bulk of the survey was about medicinal plant knowledge. Each participant was asked to ...
... religious well-being and often function as herbal pharmacies by selling fresh, dried, and processed herbs grown in the United States, or imported from the Caribbean or elsewhere (Balick et al. 2000). By drawing on religious and healing ...
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