Ethnobotany in the New Europe : : People, Health and Wild Plant Resources / / ed. by Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Andrea Pieroni, Rajindra K. Puri.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alm, Torbjørn,; Ayub, Shamila,; Boer, Hugo J. de,; Carvalho, Ana Maria,; Christanell, Anja,; Gliwa, Bernd,; Gütler, Marianne,; Heinrich, Michael,; Iversen, Marianne,; José Barão, Maria,; McCune, Jenny L.,; Morales, Ramón,; Nebel, Sabine,; Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel,; Pieroni, Andrea,; Puri, Rajindra K.,; Soveral Dias, Alexandra,; Tabone, Timothy J.,; Tardío, Javier,; Torry, Bren,; Van den Eynden, Veerle,; Vogl, Christian R.,; Vogl-Lukasser, Brigitte,; Wildhaber, Christine,; Zaman, Hadar,; Šeškauskaite, Daiva Š,
• HerausgeberIn: Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel,; Pieroni, Andrea,; Puri, Rajindra K.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts. Modern botanical and medical science itself was built on studies of Medieval Europeans’ use of food plants and medicinal herbs. In spite of monumental changes introduced in the Age of Discovery and Mercantile Capitalism, some communities, often of immigrants in foreign lands, continue to hold on to old recipes and traditions, while others have adopted and enculturated exotic plants and remedies into their diets and pharmacopoeia in new and creative ways. Now in the 21st century, in the age of the European Union and Globalization, European folk botany is once again dynamically responding to changing cultural, economic, and political contexts. The authors and studies presented in this book reflect work being conducted across Europe’s many regions. They tell the story of the on-going evolution of human-plant relations in one of the most bioculturally dynamic places on the planet, and explore new approaches that link the re-evaluation of plant-based cultural heritage with the conservation and use of biocultural diversity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Appendices -- CHAPTER 1 The Ethnobotany of Europe, Past and Present -- CHAPTER 2 People and Plants in Lëpushë Traditional Medicine, Local Foods and Postcommunism in a Northern Albanian Village -- CHAPTER 3 The Cultural Significance of Wildgathered Plant Species in Kartitsch (Eastern Tyrol, Austria) and the Influence of Socioeconomic Changes on Local Gathering Practices -- CHAPTER 4 Local Innovations to Folk Medical Conditions Two Major Phytotherapeutic Treatments from the Maltese Islands -- Chapter 5 Local Awareness of Scarcity and Endangerment of Medicinal Plants in Roussenski Lom Natural Park in Northern Bulgaria -- CHAPTER 6 ‘My Doctor Doesn’t Understand Why I Use Them’ Herbal and Food Medicines amongst the Bangladeshi Community in West Yorkshire, U.K. -- CHAPTER 7 Persistence of Wild Food and Wild Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Northeastern Region of Portugal -- Chapter 8 The Use of Wild Edible Plants in the Graecanic Area in Calabria, Southern Italy -- CHAPTER 9 The Ecology and Use of Edible Thistles in Évora, Alentejo, Southeastern Portugal -- CHAPTER 10 Spring is Coming The Gathering and Consumption of Wild Vegetables in Spain -- CHAPTER 11 Plants as Symbols in Scotland Today -- CHAPTER 12 The Botanical Identity and Cultural Signifi cance of Lithuanian Jovaras An Ethnobotanical Riddle -- CHAPTER 13 Norway’s Rosmarin (Rhododendron tomentosum) in Past and Present Tradition -- CHAPTER 14 Chamomiles in Spain The Dynamics of Plant Nomenclature -- CHAPTER 15 A Preliminary Study of the Plant Knowledge and Grassland Management Practices of English Livestock Farmers, with Implications for Grassland Conservation -- CHAPTER 16 A Comparative Study of Rural and Urban Allotments in Gravesham, Kent, U.K. -- Notes on Contributors -- Index