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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... Traditional medicine. 3. Emigration and immigration-- Social aspects. 4. Urban anthropology. I. Pieroni, Andrea. II. Vandebroek, Ina. GN476.7.T73 2007 306.4'5--dc22 2007024373 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue ...
... Traditional Herbal Remedies by Thai Immigrant Women in Sweden Pranee C. Lundberg Chapter 6 122 Medicinal Plant Use by Surinamese Immigrants in Table of Contents.
... Remedies for Health Care and Well-Being by Spanish-Speaking Latino ... Traditional Health Care and Food and Medicinal Plant Use among Historic ... Traditional Remedies and Transmission of Medicinal Knowledge among Sahrawi People Displaced ...
... Remedies Used by Thai Immigrant Women in Sweden 110 6.1 Plants Offered for Sale by “Piking Nanga Grang Vanodoe Oso ... Traditional Phytotherapeuticals Stored in Tents by Sahrawi People in South Algerian Refugee Camps 252 12.2 Other Biological ...
... traditional bread in a restaurant Location of the selected communities Cultural distribution of traditional knowledge regarding wild botanicals as (a) foods and (b) medicines by percent of taxa reported Location of the study area and ...
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