Title: Traveling cultures and plants : the ethnobiology and ethnopharmacy of migrations /
Authors: Pieroni, Andrea.; Vandebroek, Ina.
Publisher: Berghahn Books,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Ethnobiology; Traditional medicine.; Emigration and immigration Social aspects; Urban anthropology.; Ethnopharmacology; Emigrants and Immigrants; Emigration and Immigration; Medicine, Traditional
Contents: Medicinal plants and cultural variation across Dominican rural, urban, and transnational landscapes / Andreana L. Ososki, Michael J. Balick, and Douglas C. Daly -- Use of medicinal plants by Dominican immigrants in New York City for the treatment of common health conditions : a comparative analysis with literature data from the Dominican Republic / Ina Vandebroek [and others] -- Between bellyaches and lucky charms : revealing Latinos' plant-healing knowledge and practices in New York City / Anahí Viladrich -- The changing scene of health promotion and disease prevention strategies due to migration of Indians from the Asian subcontinent to the United States / Usha R. Palaniswamy -- Use of traditional herbal remedies by Thai immigrant women in Sweden / Pranee C. Lundberg -- Medicinal plant use by Surinamese immigrants in Amsterdam, the Netherlands : results of a pilot market survey / Tinde van Andel and Charlotte van 't Klooster -- The use of home remedies for health care and well-being by Spanish-speaking Latino immigrants in London : a reflection on acculturation / Melissa Ceuterick [and others] -- Hackney's "ethnic economy" revisited : local food culture, ethnic "purity", and the politico-historical articulation of Kurdish identity / Sarah Keeler -- A strange drug in a strange land / Neil Carrier -- Traditional health care and food and medicinal plant use among historical Albanian migrants and Italians in Lucania, Southern Italy / Cassandra L. Quave and Andrea Pieroni -- Plant knowledge as indicator of historical cultural contacts : tanning in the Atlantic fringe / Ingvar Svanberg -- Procurement of traditional remedies and transmission of medicinal knowledge among Sahrawi people displaced in Southwestern Algerian refugee camps / Gabriele Volpato [and others].