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...

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