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Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

Edited by Andrea Pieroni, Edited by Ina Vandebroek

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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 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's ""Secret Life of Scientists"", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany?

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 14 days
Publisher | Berghahn Books
Published date | 1 Oct 2009
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 296
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 399g
ISBN | 978-1-8454-5679-5
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BISAC | social science / anthropology / general

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