Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations: 7 (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 7) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1845456793 ISBN 13: 9781845456795

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2009

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"I was enthusiastic at the prospect of reviewing Traveling Cultures and Plants... and my enthusiasm was amply rewarded. Although exploring the well worn theme of traditional medicine and plant pharmacopoeias, this volume navigates away from 'indigenous' cultures and 'native' floras into the virtually unexplored terrain of diaspora healing andethnobotany... this book represents a noteworthy contribution to an area of emerging interest." - Economic Botany

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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 22 selected case studies.

Andrea Pieroni is a Lecturer in Pharmacognosy, Herbal / Traditional Medicines and Ethnopharmacy at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Bradford, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacy from the University of Bonn. His recent research concerns transcultural health and pharmacy, traditional medicines and ethnobotany. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the new Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine and the coordinator of the first collaborative ethnobotanical research project funded by the EU Commission (RUBIA).

Ina Vandebroek is a post-doctoral research associate at the Institute of Economic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in neurospychopharmacology from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and has conducted research into the ethnobotany and ethnomedicine of traditional healers in the Bolivian Andes and Amazon. The project she is currently working on at the New York Botanical Gardens is funded by the National Institutes of Health and involves the dynamics of medicinal plant knowledge and use by Dominican immigrants in New York City.

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• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1845456793
• ISBN 13: 9781845456795
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294
• Herausgeber: Pieroni Andrea, Vandebroek Ina