Native American Ethnobotany
Daniel E. Moerman
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Description
Native American Ethnobotany is a comprehensive account of the plants used by Native American peoples for medicine, food, and other purposes. The author, anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman, has devoted more than 25 years to the compilation of the ethnobotanical knowledge slowly gathered over the course of many centuries and recorded in hundreds of firsthand studies of American Indians made over the past 150 years. This research has yielded a treasure-trove of information whose magnitude will surprise even those familiar with the anthropological and botanical literature: it documents Native American use of 4029 kinds of plants with a total of 44,691 usages.
Product Details
Price
$80.00
$74.40
Publisher
Timber Press (OR)
Publish Date
August 15, 1998
Pages
927
Dimensions
8.74 X 11.24 X 2.22 inches | 5.63 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780881924534
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About the Author
Daniel E. Moerman teaches anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is widely known as a leading expert in the field of ethnobotany. Dr. Moerman received the Annual Literature Award from the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries and the Distinguished Economic Botanist Award from the Society for Economic Botany.
Reviews
"The definitive book on the subject. Covering over 4,000 plants with some 44,000 uses, this represents years of research on the author's part." --Washington Daily News "A remarkable body of research. No other single reference book even comes close to it." --American Survival Guide Magazine "Native American Ethnobotany is an essential reference for all those interested in the uses of plants." --Wild Foods Forum "This typographically attractive book presents its data with interest and humor." --Taxon "An enormous achievement. . . . Fun to browse through it and to discover many exciting details about plant use in North America." --Journal of Ethnopharmacology "This work is an invaluable resource for ethnobotanists, anthropologists, herbalists, and other researchers." --Herb Quarterly "An impressive compilation of information on plants used by Native Americans. . . . An important library book." --Northeastern Naturalist "A monumental work." --Plants and People "Moerman has done an excellent job of presenting the information in useable form." --American Biology Teacher "This scholarly and weighty tome contains a stupendous quantity of high-quality information about the use of plants by Native American peoples." --Edinburgh Journal of Botany "I have no hesitation in recommending this book as a fundamental and highly valuable source of fascinating information on the plants and the peoples of North America." --Edinburgh Journal of Botany "Congratulations to Timber Press for doing it right." --Whole Earth "Anyone interested in the economic botany and ethnobotany of indigenous groups of North America needs to have a copy of this book. It is the standard reference on Native American plant uses." --HerbalGram
