"The text itself is useful, entertaining, and informative. In
addition, each chapter is a model for modern ethnobotanical
studies. Rather than simply cataloguing plant use, each researcher
analyzes the historical, societal, economic, or political aspects
relevant to changes in human plant usage. Thus, the authors provide
a true ethnobotanical resource that can be instructive to academic
audiences." . Choice
The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is
an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of
researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts.
Modern botanical and medical science itself was built on studies of
Medieval Europeans' use of food plants and medicinal herbs. In
spite of monumental changes introduced in the Age of Discovery and
Mercantile Capitalism, some communities, often of immigrants in
foreign lands, continue to hold on to old recipes and traditions,
while others have adopted and enculturated exotic plants and
remedies into their diets and pharmacopoeia in new and creative
ways. Now in the 21st century, in the age of the European Union and
Globalization, European folk botany is once again dynamically
responding to changing cultural, economic, and political contexts.
The authors and studies presented in this book reflect work being
conducted across Europe's many regions. They tell the story of the
on-going evolution of human-plant relations in one of the most
bioculturally dynamic places on the planet, and explore new
approaches that link the re-evaluation of plant-based cultural
heritage with the conservation and use of biocultural
diversity.
Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana is a Senior Lecturer of botany and
ethnobotany at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He has been
researching contemporary and historical uses of Spanish medicinal
and wild food plants, homegardens, and folk botanical taxonomies at
the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid (CSIC) and the School of
Pharmacy (University of London) since 1995.
Andrea Pieroni is an Associate Professor of plant biology and
ethnobotany at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo,
Northern Italy. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of
Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine and the President of the
International Society of Ethnobiology. His research focuses on food
and medical ethnobotany in the Mediterranean and in the Balkan
areas, and among migrant communities and diasporas in Europe.
Rajindra K. Puri is a Senior Lecturer in environmental
anthropology and ethnobiology at the University of Kent at
Canterbury, UK. While his primary research area is Indonesian
Borneo, he also supervises M.Sc. and Ph.D. students who conduct
ethnobotanical research in Europe. With Christian Vogl he
co-organizes a summer field school in the Austrian Alps on methods
in ethnobotany and works with the Global Diversity Foundation in
Morocco, Malaysia and Namibia."
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