Traveling Cultures and Plants : : The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations / / ed. by Andrea Pieroni, Ina Vandebroek.

• MitwirkendeR: Andel, Tinde van,; Balick, Michael J.,; Broglia, Alessandro,; Carrier, Neil,; Ceuterick, Melissa,; Cushman, Linda,; Daly, Douglas C.,; Durán, Levenia,; Emhamed, Abdalahe Ahmadi,; Keeler, Sarah,; Klooster, Charlotte van‘t,; Kronenberg, Fredi,; Lamin Saleh, Saleh Mohamed,; Lantigua, Rafael,; Lello, Sara di,; Lundberg, Pranee C.,; Mejía, Miriam,; Ososki, Andreana L.,; Palaniswamy, Usha R.,; Pieroni, Andrea,; Quave, Cassandra L.,; Robineau, Lionel,; Svanberg, Ingvar,; Torry, Bren,; Vandebroek, Ina,; Viladrich, Anahí,; Volpato, Gabriele,; Wade, Christine,; Yukes, Jolene,
• HerausgeberIn: Pieroni, Andrea,; Vandebroek, Ina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany?

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Medicinal Plants and Cultural Variation across Dominican Rural, Urban, and Transnational Landscapes -- Chapter 2 Use of Medicinal Plants by Dominican Immigrants in New York City for the Treatment of Common Health Conditions -- Chapter 3 Between Bellyaches and Lucky Charms -- Chapter 4 The Changing Scene of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Strategies Due to Migration of Indians from the Asian Subcontinent to the United States -- Chapter 5 Use of Traditional Herbal Remedies by Thai Immigrant Women in Sweden -- Chapter 6 Medicinal Plant Use by Surinamese Immigrants in Amsterdam, the Netherlands -- Chapter 7 The Use of Home Remedies for Health Care and Well-Being by Spanish-Speaking Latino Immigrants in London -- Chapter 8 Hackney’s “Ethnic Economy” Revisited -- Chapter 9 A Strange Drug in a Strange Land -- Chapter 10 Traditional Health Care and Food and Medicinal Plant Use among Historic Albanian Migrants and Italians in Lucania, Southern Italy -- Chapter 11 Plant Knowledge as Indicator of Historical Cultural Contacts -- Chapter 12 Procurement of Traditional Remedies and Transmission of Medicinal Knowledge among Sahrawi People Displaced in Southwestern Algerian Refugee Camp -- Notes on Contributors -- Index