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A collection of essays based on the 2005 Society for American Archaeology symposium, presenting research that epitomizes Richard I. Ford's approach of engaged anthropology. This transdisciplinary approach integrates archaeological research with perspectives from ethnography, history, and ecology, and engages the anthropologist with Native partners and with socio-natural landscapes. Research papers largely focus on the U.S. Southwest, but also consider other areas of North America, issues relating to museums collections, and indigenous approaches to materials research. ... Read more

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The CRC Ethnobotany Desk Reference contains almost 30,000 concise ethnobotanical monographs of plant species characteristics and an inventory of claimed attributes and historical uses by cultures throughout the world-the most ambitious attempt to date to inventory plants on a global scale and match botanical information with historical and current uses.To obtain the same information about any species listed, you would have to thumb through hundreds of herbal guides, ethnobotanical manuals, and regional field guides. Sources for this index include the three largest U.S. Government ethnobotany databases, the U.S. National Park Service NPFlora plant inventory lists, and 18 leading works on the subject. ... Read more

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Big book, essential resource, but VERY short on words
I'm not unhappy that I bought this book, however it wasn't what I expected.

This is NOT a book with anecdotes or stories or any sort of written description about any plant.It is instead a massive database dump of thousands of plants along with a standard mini-suite of information for each of them: other names, where found, what its used for, etc.This information is presented in a non-reading friendly, compact manner.

This is strictly a reference book and not intended for actual reading or browsing.It is valuable for conducting research IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER RESOURCES - the web, other texts, etc.I could see it being used effectively as a cross reference for finding leads/keywords to be used to track down more information about a given plant/malady/location, etc. elsewhere.

Indispensable, but not standalone.

single text survery of medicinal plants
An excellent encyclopedic database of the reported ethno-pharmacological and medicinal applications of a vast array of medicinal plants. Medical and dental problem organization provided in index, with the listing of the common and taxonomical names for plants, reported medical/dental applications within purported cultural and regional environments. No plant drawings or pictures available for cross reference but this publication remains an excellent "one text" reference for a rapid review of known world wide medicinal plants. ... Read more

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Study of 280 plants of ethnobotanic importance to the Kharias, tribe living in southern parts of Bihar. ... Read more

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The definitive volume on the Seri Indians of Sonora, Mexico.
"People of the Desert and Sea-Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians" provides the most knowledgeable and complete resource available about the little-known Seri Indians of Sonora, Mexico, the last free nomadicmariners, hunters & gatherers of North America.This book shines asthe definitive study of Seri culture.There are brilliant sections andchapters about Seri language, prehistory, history through the 20th century,the Seri calendar & Seri classification of the biological world, water& food quest, the supernatural, medicinal uses of plants & animals,shelter & fuel, boats & equipment, dress & ornament,recreation, music & oral tradition, basketry & ironwood carving,and finally, species accounts of plants in Seri culture.The readable andeasy flowing text is sumptuously illustrated with B&W photographs anddrawings.The primary author of this incredible book is Mary Beck"Becky" Moser, who has lived with and known the Seri Indians foralmost 50 years.Linguist Moser, her deceased husband Edward &daughter Cathy are the only outsiders who have become fluent in the Serilanguage.Becky's esteem and friendship among the Seris has gained herunprecedented access to first hand accounts about Seri life and Seritradition.Becky Moser's years of dedicated work and collaboration withbotanist Richard Felger makes "People of the Desert and Sea" aninvaluable resource and guide to anthropologists and biologists researchinglife in the Sonoran Desert. ... Read more