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Book ID: 110399
Balick, Michael J. and Paul Alan Cox

Plants, People, and Culture. The Science of Ethnobotany. 2nd ed. 2021. (correct: 2020). 223 col. figs. 218 p. Hardcover.

Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the world’s leading ethnobotanists argue that our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants. Creating massive sea craft from plants, indigenous shipwrights spurred the navigation of the world’s oceans. Today, indigenous agricultural innovations continue to feed, clothe, and heal the world’s population. One out of four prescription drugs, for example, were discovered from plants used by traditional healers. Objects as common as baskets for winnowing or wooden boxes to store feathers were ornamented with traditional designs demonstrating the human ability to understand our environment and to perceive the cosmos. Throughout the world, the human body has been used as the ultimate canvas for plant-based adornment as well as indelible design using tattoo inks.

Plants also garnered religious significance, both as offerings to the gods and as a doorway into the other world. Indigenous claims that plants themselves are sacred is leading to a startling reformulation of conservation. The authors argue that conservation goals can best be achieved by learning from, rather than opposing, indigenous peoples and their beliefs.
Author Balick, Michael J. and Paul Alan Cox
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Author Balick, Michael J. and Paul Alan Cox
Manufacturer CRC Press / Bookpoint Taylor & Francis The Netherlands 130 Milton Park
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EAN 9780367501839
ISBN 9780367501839
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