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Terence McKenna was born and raised in Paonia, Colorado, [5] [12] [13] with Irish ancestry on his father's side of the family. [ 14 ] McKenna developed a hobby of fossil-hunting in his youth and from this he acquired a deep scientific appreciation of nature. [ 15 ]
Ethnobotany is an interdisciplinary field at the interface of natural and social sciences that studies the relationships between humans and plants. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It focuses on traditional knowledge of how plants are used, managed, and perceived in human societies .
Plotkin was interviewed in 1998 by South American Explorer magazine, just after the release of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice and the IMAX movie Amazon: No medical system has all the answers — no shaman that I've worked with has the equivalent of a polio vaccine, and no dermatologist that I've been to could cure a fungal infection as ...
The family moved from San Francisco in 1902, settling in the Manoa Valley. Frederick Krauss was granted a 50-acre homestead on Maui in 1912 and Beatrice with her older sister and two younger brothers contributed to the family's farm. The family would later move back to Honolulu when the children were of age to attend college. [2]
Schultes was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 12, 1915.The son of a plumber, [1] he grew up and was educated in East Boston. [3] His interest in South America's rain forests traced back to his childhood: while he was bedridden, his parents read him excerpts of Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and the Andes, by the 19th-century English botanist Richard Spruce. [1]
The background just lists the founders of modern anthropology and their ecological bents, and overly-describes the research of the scientist who coined the term. Nothing of substance is mentioned that would discriminate ethnoecology from traditional cultural ecology.
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born September 13, 1953) is a Potawatomi botanist, author, and the director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF).
Botany, also called plant science or phytology, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially their anatomy, taxonomy, and ecology. [1] A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field.