The ethnobotany of Eden : rethinking the jungle medicine narrative /: rethinking the jungle medicine narrative. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert A. Voeks.
• Authors: Voeks, Robert A, 1950-
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter One -- God's Medicine Chest; The Jungle Medicine Narrative; The Biochemical Factory; Pharmacy in the Forest; The Environmental Claim; Chapter Two -- Terra Mythica; Paradise; The Sexualized Forest; Dark Eden; The Illusion of Virginity; Cultural Rainforests; Footprints in the Forest; Chapter Three -- People in the Forest; Tropical Monsters; New World Natives; Noble Savages; Are Africans Noble?; Environmental Determinism; Instinctive Ethnobotanists; Chapter Four -- Green Gold; First, Do No Harm; Ethnobotanical Axioms; "The Woods Are Their Apothecaries" Benefit SharingThe Age of Biopiracy; The Nutmeg Conspiracy; The Fever Tree; Chapter Five -- Weeds in the Garden; Disturbance Pharmacopoeias; The Palma Christi; Food as Medicine; Chapter Six -- Gender and Healing; Shamans; Sex and Space; Women Healers; Chapter Seven -- Immigrant Ethnobotany; Candomblé Medicine; Botanical Conversations in the Black Atlantic; Maroon Magic and Medicine; Chapter Eight -- Forgetting the Forest; What Is Traditional Plant Knowledge?; Ethnobotanical Change; Chapter Nine -- Environmental Narratives; A Forest of Fables; Jungle Medicine Revisited; Epilogue; Notes; References
• Publisher Details: Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 581.6/34; Science -- General; Ethnobotany -- Tropics; Traditional medicine -- Tropics; Ethnobotany; Traditional medicine; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany; Science -- Life Sciences -- Botany; Nature -- Environmental Conservation & Protection; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; Tropics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226547855
• Related ISBNs: 022654785X; 9780226547718; 022654771X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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