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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... Rural Costa Rica Luis A. Vivanco Volume 4 Local Science vs. Global Science Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development Edited by Paul Sillitoe Volume 5 Sustainability and Communities of Place Edited by Carl A. Maida ...
... Rural, Urban, and Transnational Landscapes Andreana L. Ososki, Michael J. Balick, and Douglas C. Daly Chapter 2 39 Use of Medicinal Plants by Dominican Immigrants in New York City for the Treatment of Common Health Conditions: A ...
... and botanical families (B) reported by women in rural (n = 67) and urban study sites (n = 159) in the Dominican Republic for ten women's health conditions 25 1.3 1.4 3.1 3.2 3.3 4.1 6.1 8.1 8.2 10.1 viii List of Tables and Figures.
... rural, tropical study areas with urban temperate study areas. Or to put it another way, there still is very limited data available to make comparisons in situ (in immigrants' country of origin) with ex situ (in immigrants' host ...
... rural areas toward urban centers. Transnational migration is responding to the same tendency, and usually involves settlement in large urban areas upon arrival in the host country. Immigration is also intertwined with health and health ...
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