Ethnobotany (The Green World)
Chelsea House Publications | 2006-09-30 | ISBN: 0791089630 | 128 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Ethnobotany is the study of the interaction between human societies and
the flora they depend upon for sustenance. In this title, a part of
“The Green World” series, author Kim J. Young traces elements of this
fascinating branch of physical science and cultural anthropology.
Readers are presented with the complex nature of human dependence upon
plants for survival. For example, it was in harnessing the power and
stability of plants in the form of agriculture that civilizations took
one of the most essential steps toward establishing the security
necessary for progress.
In this illustrated text Young describes
how ethnobotanists use their tools of research and discovery to uncover
the ways past civilizations used plants for food, medicine, shelter,
and even religious rites. In one of the more interesting themes in this
well-researched book, Young discusses the medicinal value of plants
that native healers understand but which modern civilizations destroy.
Another section of particular worth is that dealing with the costs of
deforestation from an environmental and resource perspective. In the
end this title serves as a welcome addition to a science classroom or
library, as well as being a book that depicts a novel aspect of
scientific inquiry.
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