Ethnobotany - Wikipedia
Ethnobotany is an interdisciplinary field at the interface of natural and social sciences that studies the relationships between humans and plants. [1][2] It focuses on traditional knowledge of how plants are used, managed, and perceived in human societies. [3][4] Ethnobotany integrates knowledge from botany, anthropology, ecology, and chemistry...
Traditional Medicine, Plant Uses & Conservation - Britannica
ethnobotany, systematic study of the botanical knowledge of a social group and its use of locally available plants in foods, medicines, clothing, or religious rituals.
Ethnobotany - US Forest Service
Ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous (native) plants. Plants provide food, medicine, shelter, dyes, fibers, oils, resins, gums, soaps, waxes, latex, tannins, and even contribute to the air we breathe.
What is ethnobotany? - Botanical Dimensions
What is ethnobotany and why does it matter? Ethno (as in ‘ethnic’) refers to people, culture, a culture’s collective body of beliefs, aesthetic, language, knowledge, and practice. Botany is the study of plants—from the tiniest fern or blade of grass to the tallest or oldest tree.
Ethnobotany - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
2017年12月31日 · Ethnobotany, located at the interface of natural and social sciences, is a discipline that addresses the relationships between humans and plants. Among the numerous applications of plants, those related to human health and well-being are the most diverse.
The Society for Ethnobotany
The Society for Ethnobotany. Fostering research and education on the past, present, and future uses of plants by people. Home.
Ethno Botany - Tohono Chul - Tucson, AZ
The Ethnobotanical Garden displays the types of plants they used for food, basket making, medicine, and cultural ceremonies. The summer garden features native plants flood farmed by the Tohono O’odham, as well as indigenous plants they harvested for their fruit, seeds and fibers.
Ethnobotany - New World Encyclopedia
Ethnobotany is the systematic study of the relationships between plants and people. It is not simply the study of the human "use" of plants; rather, ethnobotany locates plants within their cultural context in particular societies, and situates peoples within their ecological contexts. Ethnobotanists examine:
The Role of Botanical Families in Medicinal Ethnobotany: A …
One of the aspects always addressed in ethnobotanical investigation is the distribution of the plant taxa recorded in botanical families, since, after the number of plant species known in a given territory, the families in which they are included is one of the most evident pieces of information.
Ethnobotany, Science and Society | SpringerLink
2017年2月16日 · Ethnobotany has ethical, social, and ideological commitments to science and society, breaking away from existing vertical relationships (when decisions and policies are performed by some and merely “obeyed” by others) and consolidating a type of scientific thought shared by other natural ethnosciences.