Author: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN: 9780598228000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru. Foreword by Gordon R. Willey. Subscribers Ed
Author: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN: 9780598228000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru. Foreword by Gordon R. Willey
Author: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru
Author: Margaret TowlePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351303945
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
All of man's life is in some way associated with the plant world, from his food and shelter to his art, religion and language. The study of this all-pervading relationship between man and the plant world is called ethnobotany. This book provides a systematic reconstruction of the ethnobotany of one of the hearths of American civilization, in the prehistoric cultures of the Peruvian Central Andes.As we learn more about the rise and spread of New World agriculture, it becomes evident that Peru was one of the sources of its development. Plants were cultivated here at least 2,000 years before the beginning of the Christian era. Village life was intimately bound up with this cultivation, later civilizations rested upon it as a foundation, and from Peru agriculture was diffused to other parts of the Americas.Towle bases her work on the evidence of plant remains found in archeological sites, surveys of botanical and ethnological literature, and field studies of modern plant utilization. After a methodological and historical introduction, she proceeds to a systematic listing of plant species, each fully described. She then presents the ethnobotanical data for each of the cultural-geographic divisions of the area, giving a chronological picture of the use of wild and cultivated plants against a background of the cultures of which they were part. A summary of the evolutionary trends in the region as a whole is followed by a full bibliography and index. The book contains fifteen pages of plates.Margaret A. Towle (1902-1985) received her doctorate from Columbia University in 1958 and was research fellow in ethnobotany in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
Research Catalog of the Library of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural History. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
The Ethnobotany of Pre-columbian Peru
Author: Margaret Ashley TowlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru
Author: M. A. TowneThe Ethnobotany of Pre-columbian Peru
Author: Margaret A. TowleSubject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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