Plants and Health New Perspectives on the Health-Environment-Plant N
This volume showcases current ethnobiological accounts of the ways that people use plants to promote human health and well-being. The goal in this volume is to highlight some contemporary examples of how plants are central to various aspects of healthy en
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Elizabeth Anne Olson John Richard Stepp Editors
Plants and Health New Perspectives on the HealthEnvironment-Plant Nexus
Ethnobiology
Series Editors Robert Voeks John Richard Stepp
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Elizabeth Anne Olson • John Richard Stepp Editors
Plants and Health New Perspectives on the Health-Environment-Plant Nexus
Editors Elizabeth Anne Olson History, Sociology, & Anthropology Department Southern Utah University Cedar City, UT, USA
John Richard Stepp Department of Anthropology and Tropical Conservation and Development Program University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA
ISSN 2365-7553 ISSN 2365-7561 (electronic) Ethnobiology ISBN 978-3-319-48086-2 ISBN 978-3-319-48088-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-48088-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016955836 © Springer International Publishing AG 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
The case studies collected here are concerned with the theme of plants, humans, and health from anthropological perspectives. The genesis for this volume was a session entitled, “Plants & Health: Producing Anthropologies at the Human-Environment- Health Nexus,” at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting held in Washington D.C. in November 2014. During the session, and spilling into the rest of the afternoon, we engaged in lengthy conversations about the connections between our ethnographic research and the importance of this type of research at this moment in time. Since the conference, we have toiled with these topics further, pushed deeper into our own research, grappled with various theoretical perspectives, refined the case studies (and even added some new ones). This volume showcases current ethnographic
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