Ethnobotany - Evolution of a Discipline
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 25, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780412722707
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.