Ethnobotany
Subtitle: The Evolution of a Discipline
Contributors: Richard Evans Schultes (Editor); Siri Von Reis (Editor)
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780931146282
Subjects: Anthropology; Botany & plant sciences; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnobotany; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Botany; Science / Botany
First sentence: Although ethnobotany has only recently come into its own as a distinct academic component of the natural sciences, interest in the uses, symbolism, ritualistic, and other aspects of the practical, everyday interrelationship between people and plants has long been a definite part of human thought and activity.