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Ethnobotany of India, Volume 4 - Western and Central Himalayas (Paperback)
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Ethnobotany of India, Volume 4 - Western and Central Himalayas (Paperback)
Series: Ethnobotany of India
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Ethnobotany of India: Volume 4: Western and Central Himalayas is
the 4th volume of the 5-volume set, an informative book series on
the ethnobotanical aspects of India. The books cover different
regions, including Volume 1: Eastern Ghats and Deccan Volume 2:
Western Ghats and West Coast of Peninsular India Volume 3:
North-East India and Andaman and Nicobar Islands Volume 4: Western
and Central Himalayas Volume 5: The Indo-Gangetic Region Each
volume looks at the important ethnic plants of the specific region.
Volume 4 covers the Western and Central Himalayas, the well-known
mountain range on the Indian subcontinent. The unique flora and
fauna of the Himalayas are varied, affected by climate, rainfall,
altitude, and soils, and are vulnerable to impacts from climate
change. The editors espouse that because indigenous non-Western
societies form the vast majority of people now as well as in the
past, a study of their plant interrelationships is necessary, and
India is one of the most important regions of the old world for its
ancient and culturally rich and diverse knowledge of ethnobotany.
With this in mind, these volumes share a great deal of information
that will be valuable to plant botanists and others working in and
interested in ethnobotany. This important volume covers the
ethnobotanical aspects of many plants of the region. It looks at
ethnic diversity of people ethnic food plants and food preparation
ethnomedical aspects of plants psychedelic plants and their
possible link to soma, a vedic ritual drink whose plant origins are
a mystery ethnoveterinary medicinal plants ethno-conservation
practices biodiversity heritage sites The volume includes the
details of the plants used, their scientific names, the parts used,
and how the plants are used, providing the what, how, and why of
plant usage. The book is well illustrated with 20 color and 67 b/w
illustrations. Together, the five volumes in the Ethnobotany of
India series presents the available ethnobotanical knowledge of
India in one place. India's ancient and culturally rich and diverse
information and use of ethnobotany will be valuable to those in the
fields of botany and plant sciences, pharmacognosy and
pharmacology, nutraceuticals, and others. The books also consider
the threat to plant biodiversity imposed by environmental
degradation, which impacts cultural diversity.
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