Ethnobotany A Reader

Name: Ethnobotany A Reader
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ISBN: 9780806131801

ISBN-10: 0806131802

ISBN-13: 9780806131801

Edition: 2000

Authors: Paul E. Minnis

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 5/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Introduction	p. 3
Ethnoecology
Ethnoecology: An Introduction	p. 13
Factors Influencing Botanical Resource Perception Among the Huastec: Suggestions for Future Ethnobotanical Inquiry	p. 17
California Indian Horticulture: Management and Use of Redbud by the Southern Sierra Miwork	p. 29
Papago (O'odham) Influences on Habitat and Biotic Diversity: Quitovac Oasis Ethnoecology	p. 41
Folk Classification
Folk Classification: An Introduction	p. 65
The Pragmatics of Folk Classification	p. 69
General Plant Categories in Thompson (Nlaka'pamux) and Lillooet (Stl'atl'imx), Two Interior Salish Languages of British Columbia	p. 88
Alternatives to Taxonomic Hierarchy: The Sahaptin Case	p. 118
Foods and Medicines
Foods and Medicines: An Introduction	p. 143
Candomble Ethnobotany: African Medicinal Plant Classification in Brazil	p. 148
Virtuous Herbs: Plants in Chumash Medicine	p. 172
On the Relative Contribution of Men and Women to Subsistence Among the Hunters-Gatherers of the Columbia Plateau: A Comparison with Ethnographic Atlas Summaries	p. 184
Quelites - Ethnoecology of Edible Greens - Past, Present, and Future	p. 197
Famine Foods of the North American Desert Borderland in Historical Context	p. 214
Agriculture
Agriculture: An Introduction	p. 243
Devil's Claw Domestication: Evidence from Southwestern Fields	p. 247
Ethnoecology, Biodiversity, and Modernization in Andean Potato Agriculture	p. 283
Choice of Fuel for Bagaco Still Helps Maintain Biological Diversity in a Traditional Portuguese Agricultural System	p. 307
List of Contact Authors	p. 321
Index	p. 323
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