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• ISBN: 0806131802
• ISBN: 9780806131801
• Physical Description: vi, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
• Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, ©2000.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ethnoecology : an introduction / Catherine S. Fowler -- Factors influencing botanical resource perception among the Huastec : suggestions for future ethnobotanical inquiry / Janis B. Alcorn -- California Indian horticulture : management and use of redbud by the Southern Sierra Miwok / M. Kat Anderson -- Papago (O'odham) influences on habitat and biotic diversity : Quitovac oasis ethnoecology / Gary P. Nabhan [and others] -- Folk classification : an introduction / Cecil H. Brown -- Pragmatics of folk classification / Brian Morris -- General plant categories in Thompson (Nlaka'pamux) and Lillooet (Stl'atl'imx), two interior Salish languages of British Columbia / Nancy J. Turner -- Alternatives to taxonomic hierarchy : the Sahaptin case / Eugene S. Hunn and David H. French -- Foods and medicines : an introduction / Timothy Johns -- Candomblé ethnobotany : African medicinal plant classification in Brazil / Robert A. Voeks -- Virtuous herbs : plants in Chumash medicine / Jan Timbrook -- On the relative contribution of men and women to subsistence among the hunters-gatherers of the Columbia Plateau : a comparison with ethnographic atlas summaries / Eugene S. Hunn -- Quelites-- ethnoecology of edible greens-- past, present, and future / Robert A. Bye, Jr. -- Famine foods of the North American Desert Borderland in historical context / Paul E. Minnis -- Agriculture : an introduction / Richard I. Ford.

Devil's claw domestication : evidence from Southwestern fields / Gary Nabhan [and others] -- Ethnoecology, biodiversity, and modernization in Andean potato agriculture / Stephen B. Brush -- Choice of fuel for bagaço still helps maintain biological diversity in a traditional Portuguese agricultural system / George F. Estabrook.

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Subject:

Ethnobotany.
Human ecology.
Folk classification.
Traditional medicine.
Traditional farming.