Ethnobotany : a methods manual /

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Author / Creator:	Martin, Gary J.
Imprint:	London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (xxiv, 268 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	People and plants conservation series People and plants conservation series.
Subject:	Ethnobotany -- Methodology. Ethnobotany -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Ethnobotany. Ethnobotany -- Methodology. Electronic books. Handbooks and manuals.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12012161

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ISBN:	9781849775854 1849775850 1844070840 9781844070848
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-261) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Ethnobotany, the study of the classification, use and management of plants by people, draws on a range of disciplines, including natural and social sciences, to show how conservation of plants and of local knowledge about them can be achieved. Ethnobotany is critical to the growing importance of developing new crops and products such as drugs from traditional plants. This book is the basic introduction to the field, showing how botany, anthropology, ecology, economics and linguistics are all employed in the techniques and methods involved. It explains data collection and hypothesis testing and.
Other form:	Print version: Martin, Gary J. Ethnobotany. London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2004 1844070840

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