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"The
value and contribution of this book is not just as a mere survey of
plants; rather, it attempts successfully to indicate and share with
the reader how plants contributed to shaping several very different
societies. . . . Most rewarding." Eating on the Wild Sibe spans the history of human-plant interactions to examine how wild plants are used to meet medicinal, nutritional, and other human needs. Drawing on primate studies, prehistoric evidence, and field research among contemporary subsistence populations, the book focuses on the processes and human ecological implications of gathering, semidomestication, and cultivation of plants that are unfamiliar to most of us. Nina L. Etkin is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawaii. She is editor of Plants in Indigenous Medicine and Diet: Biobehavioral Approaches. |
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