- Save $10 when you spend $50 and pay with Bill Me Later. The fast and convenient way to buy without using your credit card. Offer limited to items purchased from Amazon.com between July 14, 2008 and July 21, 2008. One per customer account. Enter code BMLSAVES at checkout. Here's how (restrictions apply)
Shop for more Timber Press gardening and horticulture titles in the Gardening bookstore.
Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.
|
||||||||||||
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Better Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest by Mark J. Plotkin  (47)
|
Ethnobotany: A Methods Manual (People and Plants Conservation) by Gary J. Martin  (3)
$45.00
|
Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia by Richard Evans Schultes (1)
$29.95
|
Native American Ethnobotany by Daniel E. Moerman (9)
$55.97
|
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan  (156)
$10.20
|
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
The value of biodiversity and the need to preserve the untapped botanical resources of places like the Amazon rain forests is now widely acknowledged. Less widely understood but equally threatened is a key means of access to these resources, the knowledge and use of these plants by local nonliterate peoples whose traditional cultures are fast disappearing. This book explains and promotes ethnobotany, which investigates this knowledge by providing an overview of its history, practice, and value worldwide. Chapters are contributed by an impressive international array of field ethnobotanists, conservationists, and academics. Schultes spent many years as a field ethnobotanist, professor, and director of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, where von Reis is an associate. This is an important, in-depth academic study of a discipline for those with a serious interest in ethnobotany. Libraries seeking more popular works might consider two books Schultes wrote with Robert F. Raffauf: the photographic essay Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia (Synergetic Pr., 1992) and The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia (Dioscorides Pr., 1990).?Marit MacArthur, Auraria Lib., Denver
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"A timely volume that presents a broad overview of ethnobotany, showing how this rapidly developing field of inquiry has evolved to its present day high degree of sophisticaiton."—Northeastern Naturalist, February 1998 (Northeastern Naturalist )
"An important reference for anyone interested in a whole range of fields related to plants and people from anthropology to sociology; highly recommended for all libraries."—L. G. Kavaljian, Choice, September 1996 (L. G. Kavaljian Choice )
"An important, in-depth academic study of a discipline for those with a serious interest in ethnobotany."—Marit MacArthur, Library Journal, August 1, 1995 (Marit MacArthur Library Journal )
See all Editorial Reviews
The value of biodiversity and the need to preserve the untapped botanical resources of places like the Amazon rain forests is now widely acknowledged. Less widely understood but equally threatened is a key means of access to these resources, the knowledge and use of these plants by local nonliterate peoples whose traditional cultures are fast disappearing. This book explains and promotes ethnobotany, which investigates this knowledge by providing an overview of its history, practice, and value worldwide. Chapters are contributed by an impressive international array of field ethnobotanists, conservationists, and academics. Schultes spent many years as a field ethnobotanist, professor, and director of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University, where von Reis is an associate. This is an important, in-depth academic study of a discipline for those with a serious interest in ethnobotany. Libraries seeking more popular works might consider two books Schultes wrote with Robert F. Raffauf: the photographic essay Vine of the Soul: Medicine Men, Their Plants and Rituals in the Colombian Amazonia (Synergetic Pr., 1992) and The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia (Dioscorides Pr., 1990).?Marit MacArthur, Auraria Lib., Denver
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"A timely volume that presents a broad overview of ethnobotany, showing how this rapidly developing field of inquiry has evolved to its present day high degree of sophisticaiton."—Northeastern Naturalist, February 1998 (Northeastern Naturalist )
"An important reference for anyone interested in a whole range of fields related to plants and people from anthropology to sociology; highly recommended for all libraries."—L. G. Kavaljian, Choice, September 1996 (L. G. Kavaljian Choice )
"An important, in-depth academic study of a discipline for those with a serious interest in ethnobotany."—Marit MacArthur, Library Journal, August 1, 1995 (Marit MacArthur Library Journal )
See all Editorial Reviews
Product Details
|