Traveling cultures and plants : the ethnobiology and ethnopharmacy of migrations /: the ethnobiology and ethnopharmacy of migrations. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andrea Pieroni and Ina Vandebroek.
• Other Names: Pieroni, Andrea; Vandebroek, Ina
• Contents: Medicinal plants and cultural variation across Dominican rural, urban, and transnational landscapes / Andreana L. Ososki, Michael J. Balick, and Douglas C. Daly -- Use of medicinal plants by Dominican immigrants in New York City for the treatment of common health conditions : a comparative analysis with literature data from the Dominican Republic / Ina Vandebroek [and others] -- Between bellyaches and lucky charms : revealing Latinos' plant-healing knowledge and practices in New York City / Anahí Viladrich -- The changing scene of health promotion and disease prevention strategies due to migration of Indians from the Asian subcontinent to the United States / Usha R. Palaniswamy -- Use of traditional herbal remedies by Thai immigrant women in Sweden / Pranee C. Lundberg -- Medicinal plant use by Surinamese immigrants in Amsterdam, the Netherlands : results of a pilot market survey / Tinde van Andel and Charlotte van 't Klooster -- The use of home remedies for health care and well-being by Spanish-speaking Latino immigrants in London : a reflection on acculturation / Melissa Ceuterick [and others] -- Hackney's "ethnic economy" revisited : local food culture, ethnic "purity", and the politico-historical articulation of Kurdish identity / Sarah Keeler -- A strange drug in a strange land / Neil Carrier -- Traditional health care and food and medicinal plant use among historical Albanian migrants and Italians in Lucania, Southern Italy / Cassandra L. Quave and Andrea Pieroni -- Plant knowledge as indicator of historical cultural contacts : tanning in the Atlantic fringe / Ingvar Svanberg -- Procurement of traditional remedies and transmission of medicinal knowledge among Sahrawi people displaced in Southwestern Algerian refugee camps / Gabriele Volpato [and others].
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 283 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 306.4/5; Ethnobiology; Traditional medicine; Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Urban anthropology; Ethnopharmacology; Emigrants and Immigrants; Emigration and Immigration; Medicine, Traditional; Émigration et immigration -- Aspect social; Ethnobiologie; Ethnomédecine; Émigration et immigration -- Aspect social; Anthropologie urbaine; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Ethnobiology; Traditional medicine; Urban anthropology; Heilpflanzen; Kulturkontakt; Migration; Volksmedizin; Migration; Heilpflanzen; Volksmedizin; Kulturkontakt; Aufsatzsammlung; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857455789; 0857455788
• Related ISBNs: 9781845453732; 1845453735; 9781845456795; 1845456793
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.