Plants, Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology (Epistemologies of Healing)

by StephenHarris (Editor), ElisabethHsu (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2012

  $43.93

  Plants have cultural histories, as their applications change over time and with place. Some plant species have affected human cultures in profound ways, such as the stimulants tea and coffee from the Old World, or coca and quinine from South America.

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $150.36

  Plants have cultural histories, and their culturally known applications change through time and across contexts. The impact of individual plant species on human cultures has been profound, whether it is the coca and quinine from South America or tea and coffee from the Old World. This pattern is seen in all types of uses that humans make of plants.