Ethnobotanical Ethnographies
If you are interested to read ethnographies by ethnobotanists, you can search the Library's General Search or WorldCat Discovery, using these keywords
Ethnobotany AND Ethnography OR Ethnobotany AND [country], e.g. Ethnobotany AND Haiti
Below is a sample of some print ethnographies available at the UConn Library:
People and Plants in Ancient Western North America by Call Number: E78.W5 P46 2004ISBN: 9781588341730Publication Date: 2006-08-23Discusses how native prehistoric peoples used plants. This companion to People and Plants in Eastern North America presents the latest information on the use of native plants, the history of crops and their uses, and the impact of humans on their environment.
The Hot and the Cold by Call Number: F1221.N3 C43 2003ISBN: 0802036910Publication Date: 2003-04-19Pre-Hispanic notions of heat and cold continue to shape native Mexican ideas about health and illness in humans and food plants. In The Hot and the Cold, Jacques Chevalier and Andres Sanchez Bain examine Indigenous worldviews and myths, and challenge the prevailing notion that hot-cold reasoning in Latin America is a product of the Hippocratic humoral doctrine brought by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century.
Passage of Darkness by Call Number: BL2530.H3 D37 1988ISBN: 0807817767Publication Date: 1988-05-27By explaining zombification as a rational process within the context of traditional Vodoun society, Davis demystifies one of the most exploited of folk beliefs, one that has been used to denigrate an entire people and their religion.
