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Ethnobotany in the New Europe - People, Health and Wild Plant Resources (Paperback)
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Ethnobotany in the New Europe - People, Health and Wild Plant Resources (Paperback)
Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
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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.
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