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Blumenshine, Philip [Contributor]; Evans, John Grimley [Contributor]; Freedman, Françoise Barbira [Contributor]; Geissler, P. Wenzel [Contributor]; Harris, Stephen [Contributor]; Harris, Stephen [Editor]; Hsu, Elisabeth [Contributor]; Hsu, Elisabeth [Editor]; Prince, Ruth J. [Contributor]; Timbul, Verena [Contributor]; Weckerle, Caroline S. [Contributor]

Plants, Health and Healing

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Plants, Health and Healing : On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Contents
    List of Illustrations
    List of Tables
    Introduction. Plants in Medical Practice and Common Sense: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropol
    HISTORY
    Editorial Introduction
    1. Non-Native Plants and Their Medicinal Uses
    2. Qing hao (Herba Artemisiae annuae) in the Chinese Materia Medica
    ANTHROPOLOGY
    Editorial Introduction
    3. Shamanic Plants and Gender in the Healing Forest
    4. Persons, Plants and Relations: Treating Childhood Illness in a Western Kenyan Village
    PLANT PORTRAITS
    Editorial Introduction
    5. East goes West. Ginkgo biloba and Dementia
    6. Medicinal, Stimulant and Ritual Plant Use: an Ethnobotany of Caffeine-Containing Plants
    Notes on Contributors
    Index
  • Contributor: Blumenshine, Philip [MitwirkendeR]; Evans, John Grimley [MitwirkendeR]; Freedman, Françoise Barbira [MitwirkendeR]; Geissler, P. Wenzel [MitwirkendeR]; Harris, Stephen [MitwirkendeR]; Harris, Stephen [HerausgeberIn]; Hsu, Elisabeth [MitwirkendeR]; Hsu, Elisabeth [HerausgeberIn]; Prince, Ruth J. [MitwirkendeR]; Timbul, Verena [MitwirkendeR]; Weckerle, Caroline S. [MitwirkendeR]
  • imprint: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2010]
  • Published in: Epistemologies of Healing ; 6
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (328 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781845458218
  • ISBN: 9781845458218
  • Identifier:
  • Keywords: Botany, Medical ; Ethnobotany ; Medical anthropology ; Medicinal plants ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America. Even though medicinal plants have always attracted considerable attention, there is surprisingly little research on the interface of ethnobotany and medical anthropology. This volume, which brings together (ethno-)botanists, medical anthropologists and a clinician, makes an important contribution towards filling this gap. It emphasises that plant knowledge arises situationally as an intrinsic part of social relationships, that herbs need to be enticed if not seduced by the healers who work with them, that herbal remedies are cultural artefacts, and that bioprospecting and medicinal plant discovery can be viewed as the epitome of a long history of borrowing, stealing and exchanging plants
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