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This reader in ethnobotany includes fourteen chapters organized in four parts. Paul Minnis provides a general introduction; the authors of the section introductions are Catherine S. Foeler (ethnoecology), Cecil H. Brown (folk classification), Timothy Jones (foods and medicines), and Richard I. Ford (agriculture).Ethnobotany: A Reader is intended for use as a textbook in upper division undergraduate and graduate courses in economic botany, ethnobotany, and human ecology. The book brings together for the first time previously published journal articles that provide diverse perspectives on a wide variety of topics in ethnobotany. Contributors include: Janis B. Alcorn, M. Kat Anderson, Stephen B. Brush, Robert A. Bye, George F. Estabrook, David H. French, Eugene S. Hunn, Charles F. Hutchinson, Eric Mellink, Paul E. Minnis, Brian Morris, Gary P. Nabhan, Amadeo M. Rea, Karen L. Reichhardt, Jan Timbrook, Nancy J. Turner, and Robert A. Voeks.

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title	:	Ethnobotany : A Reader
author	:	Minnis, Paul E.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0806131802
print isbn13	:	9780806131801
ebook isbn13	:	9780806170152
language	:	English
subject	Ethnobotany, Human ecology, Folk classification, Traditional medicine, Traditional farming.
publication date	:	2000
lcc	:	GN476.73.E83 2000eb
ddc	:	306.4/5
subject	:	Ethnobotany, Human ecology, Folk classification, Traditional medicine, Traditional farming.

Page iii

Ethnobotany

A Reader

Edited by Paul E. Minnis

Page iv

Also by Paul E. Minnis

Social Adaptation to Food Stress: A Prehistoric Southwestern Example (Chicago, 1985)

(edited with Charles L. Redman) Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory (Boulder, 1990)

(edited with Wayne J. Elisens) Biodiversity and Native America (Norman, 2000)

With the exception of the five Introductory articles, the essays in this book were all previously published in the Journal of Ethnobiology and are used here with permission of the Society of Ethnobiology.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ethnobotany : a reader / edited by Paul E. Minnis.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8061-3180-2 (alk. paper)
1. Ethnobotany. 2. Human ecology. 3. Folk classification. 4. Traditional medicine.
5. Traditional Faming. I. Minnis, Paul E.
GN476.73.E83 2000
306.4'5dc21
99-047294
CIP

The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Paul E. Minnis

Part One. Ethnoecology

Ethnoecology: An Introduction

Catherine S. Fowler

1. Factors Influencing Botanical Resource Perception among the Huastec: Suggestions for Future Ethnobotanical Inquiry

Janis B. Alcorn

2. California Indian Horticulture: Management and Use of Redbud by the Southern Sierra Miwok

M. Kat Anderson

3. Papago (O'odham) Influences on Habitat and Biotic Diversity: Quitovac Oasis Ethnoecology

Gary P. Nabhan, et al.

Part Two. Folk Classification

Folk Classification: An Introduction

Cecil H. Brown

4. The Pragmatics of Folk Classification

Brian Morris

5. General Plant Categories in Thompson (Nlaka'pamux) and Lillooet (Stl'atl'imx), Two Interior Salish Languages of British Columbia

Nancy J. Turner

6. Alternatives to Taxonomic Hierarchy: The Sahaptin Case

Eugene S. Hunn and David H. French

118

Part Three. Foods and Medicines

Foods and Medicines: An Introduction

Timothy Johns

143

Page vi

7. Candombl Ethnobotany: African Medicinal Plant Classification in Brazil

Robert A. Voeks

148

8. Virtuous Herbs: Plants in Chumash Medicine

Jan Timbrook

172

9. 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

184

10. QuelitesEthnoecology of Edible GreensPast, Present, and Future

Robert A. Bye, Jr.

197

11. Famine Foods of the North American Desert Borderland in Historical Context

Paul E. Minnis

214

Part Four. Agriculture

Agriculture: An Introduction

Richard I. Ford

243

12. Devil's Claw Domestication: Evidence from Southwestern Fields

Gary Nabhan, et al.

247

13. Ethnoecology, Biodiversity, and Modernization in Andean Potato Agriculture

Stephen B. Brush

283

14. Choice of Fuel for Bagaco Still Helps Maintain Biological Diversity in a Traditional Portuguese Agricultural System

George F. Estabrook

307

List of Contact Authors

321

Index

323

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