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Uses and abuses of plant-derived smoke : its ethnobotany as hallucinogen, perfume, incense, and medicine / Marcello Pennacchio, Lara Vanessa Jefferson, Kayri Havens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pennacchio, Marcello.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnobotany.
- Smoke.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Plants provide the food, shelter, medicines, and biomass that underlie sustainable life. One of the earliest and often overlooked uses of plants is the production of smoke, dating to the time of early hominid species. Plant-derived smoke has had an enormous socio-economic impact throughout human history, being burned for medicinal and recreational purposes, magico-religious ceremonies, pest control, food preservation, and flavoring, perfumes, and incense. This illustrated global compendium documents and describes approximately 2,000 global uses for over 1,400 plant species. The Uses and Abuses
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; List of Plants; References; Glossary; Species Index; Subject index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988806-X
- 1-282-63926-9
- 9786612639265
- 0-19-970847-9
- OCLC:
- 649479587
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