Elisabeth Hsu: Plants, Health and Healing

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Beschreibung

Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants.

Über den Autor

Elisabeth Hsu is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford, where she has convened its master's courses in medical anthropology since 2001. Based on her earlier studies in biology (botany), linguistics and sinology, she has published widely on the history and anthropology of Chinese medicine.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction
Elisabeth Hsu

History

Editorial introduction
Stephen Harris

Chapter 1. Non-native plants and their medicinal uses
Stephen Harris

Chapter 2. Qinghao .. (Herba Artemisiae annuae) in the Chinese materia medica
Elisabeth Hsu (in consultation with Frederic Obringer)

Anthropology

Editorial introduction
Stephen Harris

Chapter 3. Shamanic plants and gender in the Peruvian Upper Amazon
Francoise Barbira Freedman

Chapter 4. Persons, plants and relations: treating childhood illness in a western Kenyan village
P. Wenzel Geissler and Ruth J. Prince

Plant Portraits

Editorial introduction
Stephen Harris

Chapter 5. East goes West. Ginkgo biloba and dementia
Sir John Grimley Evans

Chapter 6. Medicinal, stimulant and ritual plant use: an ethnobotany of caffeine-containing plants
Caroline S. Weckerle, Verena Timbul and Philip Blumenshine

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780857456335
ISBN-10:	0857456334
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Hsu, Elisabeth Harris, Stephen
Hersteller:	Berghahn Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Elisabeth Hsu (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.03.2012
Gewicht:	0,48 kg