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The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany, 2nd ed

Edited by Richard I. Ford with a new introduction by Richard I. Ford
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Nature and Status, published in 1978, is still a standard text of the discipline, with classic papers exploring theoretical issues, principles of plant utilization, prehistoric economics, and more. A reprint of this watershed volume includes all these classic papers, a new 30-page introduction by Ford, and pages of new references.
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Preface to Second Edition: Ethnobotany-1994, Richard I. Ford
  • Preface, Richard I. Ford
  • Volney Hurt Jones, Ethnobotanist: An Appreciation, James B. Griffin
  • Volney Hurt Jones: Biographical Background, Karen Cowan Ford
  • Part I. Theoretical Issues in Ethnobotany
    • Introduction
    • Ethnobotany: Historical diversity and Synthesis, Richard I. Ford
    • Ethnoscience of the Sixteenth-Century Valley Zapotec, Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery
    • Cognitive Systems, Food Patterns, and Paleoethnobotany, Wilma Wetterstrom
  • Part II. Native Epistemology and Ethnobotany
    • Introduction
    • Thinking and Drinking: A Raramuri Interpretation, William L. Merrill
    • From the Hero's Bones: Three Aguaruna Hallucinogens and Their Uses, Michael F. Brown
    • Present and Future Prospects of Herbal Medicine in a Mexican Community, Ellen Messer
  • Part III. Principles of Resource Utilization
    • Introduction
    • Ecological Modification and Adaptation: An Ethnobotanical View of Lua' Swiddeners of Northwestern Thailand, Peter Kunstadter
    • The Knowledge and Use of Rain Forest Trees by the Kuikuru Indians of Central Brazil, Robert Carneiro
    • The Use of Manioc among the Kuikuru: Some Interpretations, Gertrude Dole
  • Part IV. Anthropogenic Plants and Communities
    • Introduction
    • Plant Dispersal by Native North Americans in the Canadian Subartic, M. Jean Black
    • The Prehistoric Use and Distribution of Maygrass in Eastern North America: Cultural Phytogeographical Implications, C. Wesley Cowan
    • Domestication of Sunflower and Sumpweed in Eastern North America, Richard A. Yarnell
    • The Economic Potential of lva Annua and Its Prehistoric Importance in the Lower Illinois Valley, Nancy B. Asch and David L. Asch
  • Part V. PresHistoric Economics and Paleoethnobotany
    • Introduction
    • Paleoethnobotanical Indicators of Prehistoric Environmental Disturbance: A Case Study, Paul Minnis
    • Archaeological Interpretation Based on Ethnobotanical Inferences in the Upper Gila Region, James E. Fitting
    • Paleoethnobotany in Western South America: Progress and Problems, Deborah Pearsall
  • Part VI. Publications of Volney H. Jones
    • Published Works of Volney H. Jones, compiled by Richard I. Ford
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Published: 1994
Publisher: University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-915703-38-8 (paper)
  • 978-1-951519-04-9 (ebook)
Series
  • Anthropological Papers Series
Subject
  • Nature/Environment
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