ISBN:
0857455788
,
9780857455789
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 283 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology volume 7
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Traveling cultures and plants
Keywords:
Ethnobiology
;
Traditional medicine
;
Emigration and immigration Social aspects
;
Urban anthropology
;
Ethnopharmacology
;
Emigrants and Immigrants
;
Emigration and Immigration
;
Medicine, Traditional
;
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
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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].
Abstract:
The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume - all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology - analyze these dynamics of traditional knowl
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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