Desert Hawk Books

 

Ethnobotany
A Reader

Edited by
Paul Minnis

 

384  pages
22 B&W Illustration
42 Line Drawings
10 Maps, 53 Tables
6" x 9"
Paperback

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This reader in ethnobotany includes fourteen chapters organized in four parts. Paul Minnis provides a general introduction; the authors of the section introductions are Catherine S. Fowler (ethnoecology), Cecil H. Brown (folk classification), Timothy Jones (foods and medicines), and Richard I. Ford (agriculture).
     Ethnobotany: A Reader is intended for use as a textbook in upper division undergraduate and graduate courses in economic botany, ethnobotany, and human ecology. The book brings together for the first time previously published journal articles that provide diverse perspectives on a wide variety of topics in ethnobotany. Contributors include: Janis B. Alcorn, M. Kat Anderson, Stephen B. Brush, Robert A. Bye, George F. Estabrook, David H. French, Eugene S. Hunn, Charles F. Hutchinson, Eric Mellink, Paul E. Minnis, Brian Morris, Gary P. Nabhan, Amadeo M. Rea, Karen L. Reichhardt, Jan Timbrook, Nancy J. Turner, and Robert A. Voeks.

Paul E. Minnis is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Biodiversity and Native America, and Adaptations to Food Stress: A Prehistoric Southwestern Example.