Ethnobotany : evolution of a discipline /
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Portland, Oregon :
Dioscorides Press,
©1995
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART 1: General ethnobotany. The scope and aims of ethnobotany in a developing world / Janis B. Alcorn.
- Ethnobotany: an old practice, a new discipline / E. Wade Davis. E.
- Ethnobotanical method and fact: a case study / Frank J. Lipp.
- Ethnobotany today and in the future / Ghillean T. Prance.
- Ethnobotany and phytoanthropology / Priyadarsan Sensarma Ashoke K. Ghosh.
- PART 2: Socioethnobotany new paradigms for a new ethnobotany: reflections on the case of Mexico / Victor Manuel Toledo.
- PART 3: Historical ethnobotany art and artifact as ethnobotanical tools in the ancient near east with emphasis on psychoactive plants / William A. Emboden, Jr.
- "This little book of herbs'': psychoactive plants as therapecutic agents in the badianus manuscript of 1552 / Peter T. Furst.
- Gods and plants in the classical world / Carl A. P. Ruck.
- PART 4: Ethnobotanical conservation. The importance of eEthnobotany for tropical forest conservation / Mark J. Plotkin.
- Quantitative ethnobotany and the case for conservation in Amazonia / G. T. Prance, W. Balee, B. M. Boom, R. L. Carneiro.
- A near and distant star / C. Earle Smith.
- PART 5: Ethnobotany in education. Ethnobotany and the liberal arts / Edward F. Anderson.
- A unique visual method of sharing ethnobotany with general audiences / Judith Grace Schmidt.
- PART 6: Ethnobotanical contributions to general botany, crop improvement, and ecology. Ethnobotany and plant germ plasm / Michael J. Balick.
- The ethnobotany of domesticated plants / Charles B. Heiser.
- The ethnobotany of artificial selection in seed plant domestication / Garrison Wilkes. PART 7: Ethnobotany and geography. Current outlook for ethnobotany in Colombia / Eduino Carbono.
- Ethnobotany in Africa / John O. Kokwaro.
- The importance of ethnobotany in american anthropology / Weston La Barre.
- Ethnobotanical resources of hot, arid zones of India / J. K. Maheshwari.
- Geogrphic dynamics and ethnobotany / George R. Morgan.
- A case for ethnobotany in Malaysia / Ong Hean Chooi.
- Ethnobotany today in Northwestern North America / Nancy J. Turner.
- PART 8: Ethnopharmacology. Arrow poisons and their role in the development of medicinal agents / Norman G. Bisset.
- New concepts in medical and dental ethnobotany / Memory Elvin-Lewis, Walter H. Lewis.
- Medicial chemistry's debt to ethnobotany / Albert Hofmann.
- Historical perspective and future of ethnopharmacology / Bo R. Holmstedt.
- Ethnopharmacology
- -A Challenge / Bo R. Holmstedt and Jan G. Bruhn.
- Amazonian psychoactive indoles: a review / Jan-Erik Lindgren.
- Biodynamic constituents in ayahusaca admixture plants: an uninvestigated folk pharmacopeia / Dennis J. Mckenna, L. E. Luna, and G. N. Towers.
- The urgent need for the study of medicinal plants / Plutarco Naranjo.
- Considerations in the multidisciplinary approach to the study of ritual hallucinogenic plants / Peter A. G. M. De Smet.
- PART 9: Ethnomycology. Ethnomycology: discoveries about amanita muscaria point to fresh perspectives / R. Gordon Wasson.
- PART 10: Archaeoethnobotany. Archaeology and psychoactive plants / Plutarco Naranjo.
- Archaeobotany: scope and significance / Gordon R. Willey.
- Index of Scientific Names