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| About the Editors | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Copyright Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Asia | |
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| Europe | |
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| North America | |
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| The Caribbean | |
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| South America | |
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| Africa | |
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| Edible Wild Plants As Food and As Medicine: Reflections on Thirty Years of Fieldwork | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Genesis | |
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| Three Decades of Ethnobotanical Research | |
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| Reflections and Potential Research Areas | |
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| Coda | |
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| Tibetan Foods and Medicines: Antioxidants As Mediators of High-Altitude Nutritional Physiology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Adaptations to Altitude | |
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| Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants | |
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| Tibetan High-Altitude Food Systems | |
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| Tibetan Medicine | |
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| Summary | |
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| Wild Food Plants in Farming Environments with Special Reference to Northeast Thailand, Food As Functional and Medicinal, and the Social Roles of Women | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Wild Plant Foods in the Farming Environment | |
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| Women's Roles, Women's Work, and Women's Knowledge | |
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| Consumption and Nutrition | |
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| Overlaps: Medicinal and Functional Food | |
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| Medicinal and Functional Food: Wild Plants of Northeast Thailand | |
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| Gathered Food Plants of Northeast Thailand with Medicinal Value | |
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| Investigations of Wild Plant Foods As Functional/Medicinal Foods in Thailand | |
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| Multiple-Use Value, Rarity, and Privatization | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Functional Foods or Food Medicines? On the Consumption of Wild Plants Among Albanians and Southern Italians in Lucania | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ethnographic Background | |
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| Field Methods | |
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| Wild Food and Medicinal Plants in Lucania | |
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| Pharmacology of Wild Functional Foods Consumed in Southern Italy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Digestive Beverages As a Medicinal Food in a Cattle-Farming Community in Northern Spain (Campoo, Cantabria) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Changes in Food and Health Habits and Conditions | |
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| Medicinal Food: Digestive Beverages | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| "The Forest and the Seaweed": Gitga'at Seaweed, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Community Survival | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Seaweed Use Worldwide | |
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| Gitga'at Seaweed Use | |
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| The Forest and the Seaweed | |
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| Back Home in Hartley Bay | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Medicinal Herb Quality in the United States: Bridging Perspectives with Chinese Medical Theory | |
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| Context from a Biomedical Perspective | |
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| Context from a Chinese Medical Theory Perspective | |
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| Dilemma of "Integrating" Two Divergent Epistemologies | |
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| Founding a Medicinal Herb Network | |
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| Balancing the System: Humoral Medicine and Food in the Commonwealth of Dominica | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Setting | |
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| Methods | |
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| Results and Discussion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Medicinal Foods in Cuba: Promoting Health in the Household | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Results and Discussion | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Healthy Fish: Medicinal and Recommended Species in the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest Coast (Brazil) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Methods | |
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| Results and Discussion | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Edible and Healing Plants in the Ethnobotany of Native Inhabitants of the Amazon and Atlantic Forest Areas of Brazil | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Study Site and Methods | |
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| Results and Discussion | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Food Medicines in the Bolivian Andes (Apillapampa, Cochabamba Department) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Study Area | |
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| Ethnographic Data | |
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| Methodology | |
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| Results and Discussion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Gathering of Wild Plant Foods with Medicinal Use in a Mapuche Community of Northwest Patagonia | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Study Area | |
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| Methods | |
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| Results | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Dietary and Medicinal Use of Traditional Herbs Among the Luo of Western Kenya | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Materials and Methods | |
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| Results | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Ethnomycology in Africa, with Particular Reference to the Rain Forest Zone of South Cameroon | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Mycophilia versus Mycophobia | |
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| Overview of Mushroom Use in Africa | |
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| Mushroom Knowledge and Utilization by Bantu and Bagyeli in South Cameroon | |
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| Mushrooms: Meat of the Poor | |
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| Aspects of Food Medicine and Ethnopharmacology in Morocco | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Food Medicine | |
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| Phytotherapy | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Index | |