Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany

ISBN-13: 9780367501839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 218 str.

Michael J. Balick; Paul Alan Cox

Opis

Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the world’s leading ethnobotanists argue that the very roots of human culture are deeply intertwined with plants. Plants, People, and Culture, Second Edition is designed for the college classroom as well as for the general lay reader.

Spis treści

1. People and Plants. 2. Plants That Heal. 3. Plants That Harm. 4. From Hunting and Gathering to Haute Cuisine. 5. Plants as the Basis for Material Culture. 6. Entering the Other World. 7. Biological Conservation and Ethnobotany.