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Languages : en
Pages : 95
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The Ethnobotany of Chincero, at Andean Community in Southern Peru
Author: The Ethnobotany of Chinchero, an Andean Community in Southern Peru
Author: The Ethnobotany of Chinchero, an Andean Community in Southern Peru
Author: The Ethnobotany of Chinchero, an Andean Community in Southern Peru
Author: Ethnobotany Of ChincheroAn Andean Community In Southern Peru
Author: Ethnobotany
Author: José L. MartinezPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000839583
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
In this book we present recent studies that have been carried out on some widely used medicinal plants. The need for new and alternative treatments stem from the lack of efficiency of existing remedies for certain illnesses. We have compiled information that may be useful to researchers in their quest to develop new drugs.
Andean Foodways
Author: John E. StallerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030516296
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
There is widespread acknowledgement among anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists, as well as researchers in related disciplines that specific foods and cuisines are linked very strongly to the formation and maintenance of cultural identity and ethnicity. Strong associations of foodways with culture are particularly characteristic of South American Andean cultures. Food and drink convey complex social and cultural meanings that can provide insights into regional interactions, social complexity, cultural hybridization, and ethnogenesis. This edited volume presents novel and creative anthropological, archaeological, historical, and iconographic research on Andean food and culture from diverse temporal periods and spatial settings. The breadth and scope of the contributions provides original insights into a diversity of topics, such as the role of food in Andean political economies, the transformation of foodways and cuisines through time, and ancient iconographic representations of plants and animals that were used as food. Thus, this volume is distinguished from most of the published literature in that specific foods, cuisines, and culinary practices are the primary subject matter through which aspects of Andean culture are interpreted.
The Wayfinders
Author: Wade DavisPublisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887847668
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Many of us are alarmed by the accelerating rates of extinction of plants and animals. But how many of us know that human cultures are going extinct at an even more shocking rate? While biologists estimate that 18 percent of mammals and 11 percent of birds are threatened, and botanists anticipate the loss of 8 percent of flora, anthropologists predict that fully 50 percent of the 7,000 languages spoken around the world today will disappear within our lifetimes. And languages are merely the canaries in the coal mine: what of the knowledge, stories, songs, and ways of seeing encoded in these voices? In The Wayfinders, Wade Davis offers a gripping and enlightening account of this urgent crisis. He leads us on a fascinating tour through a handful of indigenous cultures, describing the worldviews they represent and reminding us of the encroaching danger to humankind's survival should they vanish.
Farmers? Bounty
Author: Stephen B. BrushPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300130147
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
div Biological diversity is as crucial in agriculture as it is in nature, and it is equally important to the economic health of both industrial and nonindustrial societies. This book offers a sweeping assessment of crop diversity and the potential for its preservation. Stephen B. Brush develops a framework for investigating biological diversity in agriculture that focuses on the knowledge and practice of farmers, and he shows how this human ecology perspective can be applied to three global issues that affect crop resources. Brush defines the dimensions of crop diversity and outlines the essential questions surrounding it. He describes the techniques used to maintain diversity in major crops of three cradles of agriculture in which he has worked: potatoes in the Peruvian Andes, maize in Mexico, and wheat in Turkey. Finally, he explores the policy issues surrounding genetic erosion of crop varieties, conservation of crop diversity, and ownership of genetic resources. /DIV
The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany, 2nd ed
Author: Richard I. FordPublisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0915703386
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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