Name: The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany, 2nd ed
Author: Ford, Richard I.
ISBN: 9780915703388

The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany, 2nd ed

edited by Richard I. Ford

University of Michigan Press, 1994
eISBN: 978-1-951519-04-9 | Paper: 978-0-915703-38-8
Library of Congress Classification GN2.M5 no. 67 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 306

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Nature and Status, published in 1978, is still a standard text of the discipline, with classic papers exploring theoretical issues, principles of plant utilization, prehistoric economics, and more. A reprint of this watershed volume includes all these classic papers, a new 30-page introduction by Ford, and pages of new references.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

List of illustrations

List of tables

Preface to Second Edition: Ethnobotany-1994, Richard I. Ford

Preface, Richard I. Ford

Volney Hurt Jones, Ethnobotanist: An Appreciation, James B. Griffin

Volney Hurt Jones: Biographical Background, Karen Cowan Ford

Part I. Theoretical Issues in Ethnobotany

Introduction

Ethnobotany: Historical diversity and Synthesis, Richard I. Ford

Ethnoscience of the Sixteenth-Century Valley Zapotec, Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery

Cognitive Systems, Food Patterns, and Paleoethnobotany, Wilma Wetterstrom

Part II. Native Epistemology and Ethnobotany

Introduction

Thinking and Drinking: A Raramuri Interpretation, William L. Merrill

From the Hero's Bones: Three Aguaruna Hallucinogens and Their Uses, Michael F. Brown

Present and Future Prospects of Herbal Medicine in a Mexican Community, Ellen Messer

Part III. Principles of Resource Utilization

Introduction

Ecological Modification and Adaptation: An Ethnobotanical View of Lua' Swiddeners of Northwestern Thailand, Peter Kunstadter

The Knowledge and Use of Rain Forest Trees by the Kuikuru Indians of Central Brazil, Robert Carneiro

The Use of Manioc among the Kuikuru: Some Interpretations, Gertrude Dole

Part IV. Anthropogenic Plants and Communities

Introduction

Plant Dispersal by Native North Americans in the Canadian Subartic, M. Jean Black

The Prehistoric Use and Distribution of Maygrass in Eastern North America: Cultural Phytogeographical Implications, C. Wesley Cowan

Domestication of Sunflower and Sumpweed in Eastern North America, Richard A. Yarnell

The Economic Potential of lva Annua and Its Prehistoric Importance in the Lower Illinois Valley, Nancy B. Asch and David L. Asch

Part V. PresHistoric Economics and Paleoethnobotany

Introduction

Paleoethnobotanical Indicators of Prehistoric Environmental Disturbance: A Case Study, Paul Minnis

Archaeological Interpretation Based on Ethnobotanical Inferences in the Upper Gila Region, James E. Fitting

Paleoethnobotany in Western South America: Progress and Problems, Deborah Pearsall

Part VI. Publications of Volney H. Jones

Published Works of Volney H. Jones, compiled by Richard I. Ford

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