Author: Publisher:
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Category : Amaranths
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
History and Ethnobotany, 1904 to 1987
Author: Ethnobotany and Medicinal Plants
Author: Susan A. McCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnobotany
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Quick Bibliography Series
Author: Alternative Crops
Author: Karl SchneiderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alternative agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Bibliographic Index
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
Bibliography of Agriculture
Author: Bibliography of Agriculture
Author: Cannabis
Author: Robert ClarkePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520292480
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the natural origins and early evolution of this famous plant, highlighting its historic role in the development of human societies. Cannabis has long been prized for the strong and durable fiber in its stalks, its edible and oil-rich seeds, and the psychoactive and medicinal compounds produced by its female flowers. The culturally valuable and often irreplaceable goods derived from cannabis deeply influenced the commercial, medical, ritual, and religious practices of cultures throughout the ages, and human desire for these commodities directed the evolution of the plant toward its contemporary varieties. As interest in cannabis grows and public debate over its many uses rises, this book will help us understand why humanity continues to rely on this plant and adapts it to suit our needs.
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge
Author: John EdingtonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319624911
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book examines comprehensively for the first time, the scope and accuracy of indigenous environmental knowledge. It shows that in some spheres, including agriculture, house design, fuel and water manipulation, the high reputation of local observers is well deserved and often sufficiently insightful to warrant wider imitation. However it also reveals that in certain matters, notably some aspects of health care and wild-species population management, local knowledge systems are conspicuously unsound. Not all the difficulties are of the communities own making, some stem from external factors outside their control. However in either case, remedial measures can be suggested and this book describes, especially for the benefit of practitioners, what steps might be taken in rural communities to improve the quality of life. The possibility of useful transfers of information from local settings to Western ones is not ignored and forms the subject of the book’s final chapter.
Research Project Summaries
Author: National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description