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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 .
The most obvious topics in applied botany are horticulture, forestry and agriculture although there are many others like weed science, plant pathology, floristry, pharmacognosy, economic botany and ethnobotany which lie outside modern courses in botany. Since the origin of botanical science there has been a progressive increase in the scope of ...
The Ethnobotany of Poland has been the subject of several ethnobotanical surveys since the 19th century studying the role of wild plants in Polish folk culture and contemporary rural communities. [1] The first seminary on ethnobotany in Poland was held in Kolbuszowa in 1980 about the role of plants in Polish folk culture and other countries ...
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.
Logo for the Society of Ethnobiology. Ethnobiology is the multidisciplinary field of study of relationships among peoples, biota, and environments integrating many perspectives, from the social, biological, and medical sciences; along with application to conservation and sustainable development.
The medical ethnobotany of India is the study of Indian medicinal plants and their traditional uses. Plants have been used in the Indian subcontinent for treatment of disease and health maintenance for thousands of years, and remain important staples of health and folk medicine for millions.
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Mark Plotkin on Ethnobotany, Real vs. Fake Shamans, Hallucinogens, and the Dalai Lamas of South America″. Retrieved 2020-09-30. 6. ″Coronavirus and Conservation: Preventing the Next Pandemic″. Retrieved 2020-04-20. 7. ″COVID is killing Indigenous leaders″. Retrieved 2020-08-11.