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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 .
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]
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 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 Society for Ethnobotany (formerly Society for Economic Botany) is an international learned society covering the fields of ethnobotany and economic botany. It was established in 1959. In 2022 the Society voted to change its name from the Society for Economic Botany to the Society for Ethnobotany, going into effect in June 2023.
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 ]
At least 37 members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae) have been identified as medicinal plants in NER, 88% of which were found in Arunachal Pradesh. [2] [8] A 2012 survey found the Dimasa tribe (Assam) used non-flowering plants like ferns and cycads. NER has over 80 species of Rhododendron, [35] with multiple documented ethnomedicinal uses. [2]
I'm also concerned about the usage of a YouTube video as a source in this article (the current source 19, "Howard, P. gender bias in ethnobotany" leads to a 2013 YouTube video). Crenton ( talk ) 22:59, 12 December 2016 (UTC) [ reply ]