ethnobotany

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• An excellent effort at education and advanced appreciation is ably communicated in a highly polished 1996 synthesis entitled Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany, by Michael J. Balick and Paul Alan Cox.

  Academic text (2001)

• I recently completed a Master's degree in Ethnobotany because I wanted to understand how the Aboriginal peoples of the Pacific Northwest sustainably manage their food systems.

  Blog text (20)

• Continued improvements in understanding of Cherokee ethnobotany will also serve to improve education and outreach programs.

  Academic text (2011)

• In the shorter term, we're working on developing an ethnobotany course in collaboration with the Organization for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica.

• Daniel Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany was published in 1991 and is a "comprehensive account of the plants used by Native American peoples for medicine, food, and other purposes" compiled over a period of more than twenty-five years.

  Academic text (2011)

• The final section covers the ethnobotany of resins, with chapters focusing on the historical importance and future use of resins and on specific types of resins, including oleoresins, balsams, and varnish resins.

  Academic text (2003)

• The scientific study of ethnobotany reveals how various cultures use plants for food and medicine.

• In her research, she applies ethnobotany to understand the traditional uses of local plants in different communities.

• His interest in ethnobotany led him to examine the connections between plants and cultural rituals.

Synonyms

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ethnobiology

vsethnobotany

• Specialized

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A field that studies how people in different cultures use and understand local plants and animals

focuses only on cultural uses and knowledge of plants rather than animals

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology