Plants, People, and Culture

The Science of Ethnobotany

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Balick, Michael JCox, Paul Alan

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

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Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the world's leading ethnobotanists argue that the very roots of human culture are deeply intertwined with plants. Plants, People, and Culture, Second Edition is designed for the college classroom as well as for the general lay reader.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8153-4590-9

ProduktartBuch

EinbandKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Taylor and Francis

Garland Science

Erscheinungsdatum02.09.2020

Auflage2. A.

Seiten218 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 210 mm, Höhe 280 mm, Dicke 15 mm

Gewicht1440 g

IllustrationenFarb., s/w. Abb.

Artikel-Nr.21549805

KatalogBuchzentrum

Datenquelle-Nr.33703376

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Balick, Michael JCox, Paul Alan

Michael J. Balick is Vice President and Director of the Institute of Economic Botany and Senior Philecology Curator at The New York Botanical Garden. He has studied the relationship between plants, people, and culture in the Amazon Valley, Central and South America, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania.

Paul Alan Cox, recognized by Time Magazine as a Hero of Medicine for his ethnobotanical search for new medicines, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his conservation efforts with indigenous peoples. He founded the island conservation organization Seacology and is Director of the Brain Chemistry Labs in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

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