Ethnobotany : a methods manual / created by Gary J. Manual

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Data collection and hypothesis testing Botany Ethnopharmacology and related fields Anthropology Ecology Economics Linguistics Ethnobotany, conservation and community development

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.