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Traveling cultures and plants : the ethnobiology and ethnopharmacy of human migrations / edited by Andrea Pieroni and Ina Vandebroek.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 7.
- Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology ; volume 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnobiology.
- Traditional medicine.
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Urban anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume - all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology - analyze these dynamics of traditional knowl
- Contents:
- 00 front Pieroni-P.pdf; Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; 00 intro Pieroni-P.pdf; Introduction; 01 chap Pieroni-P.pdf; Chapter 1 Medicinal Plants and Cultural Variation across Dominican Rural, Urban, and Transnational Landscapes; 02 chap Pieroni-P.pdf; Chapter 2 Use of Medicinal Plants by Dominican Immigrants in New York City for the Treatment of Common Health Conditions; 03 chap Pieroni-P.pdf; Chapter 3 Between Bellyaches and Lucky Charms; 04 chap Pieroni-P.pdf
- Chapter 4 The Changing Scene of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Strategies Due to Migration of Indians from the Asian Subcontinent to the United States05 chap Pieroni-P.pdf; Chapter 5 Use of Traditional Herbal Remedies by Thai Immigrant Women in Sweden; 06 chap Pieroni-P.pdf; Chapter 6 Medicinal Plant Use by Surinamese Immigrants in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 07 chap Pieroni-P.pdf; Chapter 7 The Use of Home Remedies for Health Care and Well-Being by Spanish-Speaking Latino Immigrants in London; 08 chap Pieroni-P.pdf; Chapter 8 Hackney's ""Ethnic Economy"" Revisited
- 09 chap Pieroni-P.pdfChapter 9 A Strange Drug in a Strange Land; 10 chap Pieroni-P.pdf; Chapter 10 Traditional Health Care and Food and Medicinal Plant Use among Historic Albanian Migrants and Italians in Lucania, Southern Italy; 11 chap Pieroni-P.pdf; Chapter 11 Plant Knowledge as Indicator of Historical Cultural Contacts; 12 chap Pieroni-P.pdf; Chapter 12 Procurement of Traditional Remedies and Transmission of Medicinal Knowledge among Sahrawi People Displaced in Southwestern Algerian Refugee Camps; 13 contributors Pieroni-P.pdf; Notes on Contributors; 14 index Pieroni-P.pdf; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 6, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780857455789
- 0857455788
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