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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.
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.
Michael J. Balick is Vice President and Director of the Institute of Economic Botany and Senior Philecology Curator at The New York Botanical Garden. He has studied the relationship between plants, people, and culture in the Amazon Valley, Central and South America, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania.
Paul Alan Cox, recognized by Time Magazine as a "Hero of Medicine" for his ethnobotanical search for new medicines, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his conservation efforts with indigenous peoples. He founded the island conservation organization Seacology and is Director of the Brain Chemistry Labs in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
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Fachbereich: | Botanik |
Genre: | Biologie |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780815345909 |
ISBN-10: | 0815345909 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: |
Balick, Michael J
Cox, Paul Alan |
Hersteller: | Taylor & Francis Inc |
Maße: | 216 x 278 x 18 mm |
Von/Mit: | Michael J Balick (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.09.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,712 kg |
Michael J. Balick is Vice President and Director of the Institute of Economic Botany and Senior Philecology Curator at The New York Botanical Garden. He has studied the relationship between plants, people, and culture in the Amazon Valley, Central and South America, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania.
Paul Alan Cox, recognized by Time Magazine as a "Hero of Medicine" for his ethnobotanical search for new medicines, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his conservation efforts with indigenous peoples. He founded the island conservation organization Seacology and is Director of the Brain Chemistry Labs in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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.
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2020 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Botanik |
Genre: | Biologie |
Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780815345909 |
ISBN-10: | 0815345909 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: |
Balick, Michael J
Cox, Paul Alan |
Hersteller: | Taylor & Francis Inc |
Maße: | 216 x 278 x 18 mm |
Von/Mit: | Michael J Balick (u. a.) |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.09.2020 |
Gewicht: | 0,712 kg |