Livestock raisers and healers throughout the world have traditional ways of classifying and preventing or treating common animal diseases. Many of their -ethnoveterinary- practices offer viable alternatives to conventional Western-style veterinary medicine - especially where the latter is unavailable,
unaffordable, unreliable, or inappropriate. This highly interdisciplinary and international volume provides a critico-analytic overview over the many facets and findings of ethnoveterinary research and development. From sociocultural, political-economic, and environmental as well as...