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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 .
In 1982 both Abbotts retired and moved back to Hawaii, where she was hired by the University of Hawaii to teach ethnobotany, the interaction of humans and plants. [ 3 ] She authored eight books and over 150 publications.
Gary Martin received from Michigan State University his B.S. in botany in 1980 and from U. C. Berkeley two degrees in anthropology, M.A. in 1982 and Ph.D. in 1996 with thesis Comparative Ethnobotany of the Chinantec and Mixe of the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico. He is the Director of the Global Diversity Foundation.
Ethnoecology is a field of environmental anthropology, and has derived much of its characteristics from classic as well as more modern theorists. Franz Boas was one of the first anthropologists to question unilineal evolution , the belief that all societies follow the same, unavoidable path towards Western civilization .
The state of Paleoethnobotany as a discipline today stems from a long history of development that spans more than two hundred years [specify].Its current form is the product of steady progression by all aspects of the field, including methodology, analysis and research.
She volunteered at the University of Hawaii for six years teaching and conducting research on ethnobotany on the island. [9] Beginning in 1974, Kraus worked at the Lyon Arboretum a research complex run by the university, where she delivered popular seminars on the history of the Manoa Valley and the ethnobotany of Indigenous Hawaiians. [10]
Rainer W. Bussmann (Leutkirch, 30 May 1967) is a German botanist and vegetation ecologist, specializing in ethnobotany and ethnobiology, wild food plants, wild crop relatives, climate change, gastronomic botany and preservation of traditional knowledge in the Andes, the Caucasus and the Himalayas. [1]
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 ...