Ethnobotany in the New Europe

People, Health and Wild Plant Resources
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-124-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 591 g

Reihe: Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology

The study of European wild food plants and herbal medicines is an old discipline that has been invigorated by a new generation of researchers pursuing ethnobotanical studies in fresh contexts. Modern botanical and medical science itself was built on studies of Medieval Europeans’ use of food plants and medicinal herbs. In spite of monumental changes introduced in the Age of Discovery and Mercantile Capitalism, some communities, often of immigrants in foreign lands, continue to hold on to old recipes and traditions, while others have adopted and enculturated exotic plants and remedies into their diets and pharmacopoeia in new and creative ways. Now in the 21st century, in the age of the European Union and Globalization, European folk botany is once again dynamically responding to changing cultural, economic, and political contexts. The authors and studies presented in this book reflect work being conducted across Europe’s many regions. They tell the story of the on-going evolution of human-plant relations in one of the most bioculturally dynamic places on the planet, and explore new approaches that link the re-evaluation of plant-based cultural heritage with the conservation and use of biocultural diversity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pardo-De-Santayana, Manuel

Pieroni, Andrea

Puri, Rajindra K.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Appendixes

Chapter 1. The Ethnobotany of Europe, Past and Present

Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Andrea Pieroni and Rajindra K. Puri

Chapter 2. People and Plants in Lëpushë: Traditional Medicine, Local Foods and Post-communism in a Northern Albanian Village

Andrea Pieroni

Chapter 3. The Cultural Significance of Wild-gathered Plant Species in Kartitsch (Eastern Tyrol, Austria) and the Influence of Socioeconomic Changes on Local Gathering Practices

Anja Christanell, Brigitte Vogl-Lukasser, Christian R. Vogl and Marianne Gütler

Chapter 4. Local Innovations to Folk Medical Conditions: Two Major Phytotherapeutic Treatments from the Maltese Islands

Timothy J. Tabone

Chapter 5. Local Awareness of Scarcity and Endangerment of Medicinal Plants in Roussenski Lom Natural Park in Northern Bulgaria

Hugo J. de Boer

Chapter 6. ‘My Doctor Doesn’t Understand Why I Use Them’: Herbal and Food Medicines amongst the Bangladeshi Community in West Yorkshire, U.K.

Andrea Pieroni, Hadar Zaman, Shamila Ayub and Bren Torry

Chapter 7. Persistence of Wild Food and Wild Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Northeastern Region of Portugal

Ana Maria Carvalho and Ramón Morales

Chapter 8. The Use of Wild Edible Plants in the Graecanic Area in Calabria, Southern Italy

Sabine Nebel and Michael Heinrich

Chapter 9. The Ecology and Use of Edible Thistles in Évora, Alentejo, Southeastern Portugal

Maria José Barão and Alexandra Soveral Dias

Chapter 10. Spring is Coming: The Gathering and Consumption of Wild Vegetables in Spain

Javier Tardío

Chapter 11. Plants as Symbols in Scotland Today

Veerle Van den Eynden

Chapter 12. The Botanical Identity and Cultural Significance of Lithuanian Jovaras: An Ethnobotanical Riddle

Daiva Šeškauskaite and Bernd Gliwa

Chapter 13. Norway’s Rosmarin(Rhododendron tomentosum) in Past and Present Tradition

Torbjørn Alm and Marianne Iversen

Chapter 14. Chamomiles in Spain: The Dynamics of Plant Nomenclature

Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana and Ramón Morales

Chapter 15. A Preliminary Study of the Plant Knowledge and Grassland Management Practices of English Livestock Farmers, with Implications for Grassland Conservation

Jenny L. McCune

Chapter 16. A Comparative Study of Rural and Urban Allotments in Gravesham, Kent, U.K.

Christine Wildhaber

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Puri, Rajindra K.
Rajindra K. Puri is a Senior Lecturer in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. While his primary research area is Indonesian Borneo, he also supervises M.Sc. and Ph.D. students who conduct ethnobotanical research in Europe. With Christian Vogl he co-organizes a summer field school in the Austrian Alps on methods in ethnobotany and works with the Global Diversity Foundation in Morocco, Malaysia and Namibia.

Pieroni, Andrea
Andrea Pieroni is an Associate Professor of plant biology and ethnobotany at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Northern Italy. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine and the President of the International Society of Ethnobiology. His research focuses on food and medical ethnobotany in the Mediterranean and in the Balkan areas, and among migrant communities and diasporas in Europe.

Pardo-De-Santayana, Manuel
Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana is a Senior Lecturer of botany and ethnobotany at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has been researching contemporary and historical uses of Spanish medicinal and wild food plants, homegardens, and folk botanical taxonomies at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid (CSIC) and the School of Pharmacy (University of London) since 1995.

Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana is a Senior Lecturer of botany and ethnobotany at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He has been researching contemporary and historical uses of Spanish medicinal and wild food plants, homegardens, and folk botanical taxonomies at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid (CSIC) and the School of Pharmacy (University of London) since 1995.