Book ID: 104974
Kumar, Sanjeev (ed.)
Ethnobotanical Studies in India. 2014. illus. 353 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
Covers topics on Ethnobotany from various parts of our country. Deals with various aspects of ethnoforestry, ethnotaxonomy, ethnoecology, ethnosilviculture, ethnomedicine etc. A wide range of source materials and studies in various chapters give glimpses of cross-sectional picture of interactions between man and plants. These also focus on the concepts, methodology and future direction of ethnobotanical study.
The book provides informationon Traditional Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge (IK) being practiced in the field of medicine and other spheres of daily life. There are thirty two chapters topics on ethnobotany from Jammu and Kashmir to Tamilnadu, Arunachal Pradesh to Gujarat and also those of from Andaman and Nicobar.