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Ethnobotany in the new Europe, people, health, and wild plant resources, edited by Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Andrea Pieroni and Rajindra K. Puri

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Ethnobotany in the new Europe, people, health, and wild plant resources, edited by Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Andrea Pieroni and Rajindra K. Puri

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ethnobotany in the new Europe

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bibliography

Oclc number

475433963

Responsibility statement

edited by Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Andrea Pieroni and Rajindra K. Puri

Series statement

Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology, v. 14

Sub title

people, health, and wild plant resources

Table Of Contents

The ethnobotany of Europe,, past and present / Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Andrea Pieroni, and Rajindra K. Puri --People and plants in Lëpushë : traditional medicine, local foods, and post-communism in a northern Albanian village / Andrea Pieroni -- The cultural significance of wild-gathered plant species in Kartitsch (Eastern Tyrol, Austria) and the influence of socioeconomic changes on local gathering practices / Anja Christanell ... [et al.] -- Local innovations to folk medical conditions : two major phytotherapeutic treatments from the Maltese Islands / Timothy J. Tabone -- Local awareness of scarcity and endangerment of medicinal plants in Roussenski Lom Natural Park in Northern Bulgaria / Hugo J. de Boer -- "My doctor doesn't understand why I use them" : herbal and food medicines amongst the Bangladeshi community in West Yorkshire, U.K. / Andrea Pieroni ... [et al.] -- Persistance of wild food and wild medicinal plant knowledge in a northeastern region of Portugal / Ana Maria Carvalho and Ramón Morales -- The use of wild edible plants in the Graecanic area in Calabria, Southern Italy / Sabine Nebel and Michael Heinrich -- The ecology and use of edible thistles in Évora, Alentejo, Southeastern Portugal / Maria José Barão and Alexandra Soveral Dias -- Spring is coming : the gathering and consumption of wild vegetables in Spain / Javier Tardío -- Plants as symbols in Scotland today / Veerle Van den Eynden -- The botanical identity and cultural significance of Lithuanian jovaras : an ethnobotanical riddle / Daiva Šeškauskaitė and Bernd Gliwa -- Norway's rosmarin (Rhododendron tomentosum) in past and present tradition / Torbjørn Alm and Marianne Iversen -- Chamomiles in Spain : the dynamics of plant nomenclature / Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana and Ramón Morales -- A preliminary study of the plant knowledge and grassland management practices of English livestock farmers, with implications for grassland conservation / Jenny L. McCune -- A comparative study of rural and urban allotments in Gravesham, Kent, U.K. / Christine Wildhaber

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