Provides an overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods, and their medicinal properties within traditional societies. This volume bridges the scientific disciplines of medicine, food science, human ecology and environmental sciences with their ethno-scientific counterparts of ethnobotany, ethnoecology and ethnomedicine.
Provides an overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods, and their medicinal properties within traditional societies. This volume bridges the scienti...
Let food be your medicine, and medicine your food. Hippocrates' dictum is followed by many traditional cultures. Similarly, functional foods are becoming increasingly popular in the West. Pieroni (ethnobotany/pharmacognosy, U. of Bradford, UK) and Price (sociology, Wageningen U., the Netherlands) introduce 16 chapters focusing on food and bever
Let food be your medicine, and medicine your food. Hippocrates' dictum is followed by many traditional cultures. Similarly, functional foods are becom...
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...
The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, es...
This volume addresses recent and ongoing ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans. The book focuses on elaborating the relevance of such studies for future initiatives in this region, both in terms of sustainable and peaceful (trans-regional, trans-cultural) rural development. A multi-disciplinary viewpoint is utilized, with an incorporation of historical, ethnographic, linguistic, biological, nutritional and medical perspectives. The book is also authored by recognized scholars, who in the last decade have extensively researched the Balkan traditional knowledge systems as they pertain to...
This volume addresses recent and ongoing ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans. The book focuses on elaborating the relevance of such studies for f...