African Traditional Plant Knowledge Today
Subtitle: An Ethnobotanical Study of the Digo at the Kenya Coast
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Published: August 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9783825890568
Subjects: Anthropology; Botany & plant sciences; History; History - General History; History: World; Kenya; General; Africa - General; Anthropology - General
Description: "The book is an unusually exploration of the ethnobotanical study, through interdisciplinary approach, that combines linguistics, botany and anthropological aspects. It gives an in-depth account of the practical life of the Digo in their day-to-day knowledge and conception of the plant world. The Digo were involved in the study asa representative of the African ethnic groups, which provides for a scholastic challenge to prove other wise." "The subject matter is drawn from the qeneral botanical topics, viz plant description, naming,identification, and classification. The coverage, however, is incomplete without considering the fields of plant knowledge application such as agriculture and healing." "The book provides for evidence to recognise that, althouqh unwritten, the African Traditional Plant knowledge is not muddled, as first impressions might suggest."--BOOK JACKET.