Native American Ethnobotany
by Daniel E. Moerman
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"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 show more 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"--Jacket. show lessTags
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want to know about native plants of america you can use or have been used. well holy shit this one has thousands of listings. this would take me 6 years on the internet and libraries to compile this.
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Daniel E. Moerman is William E. Stirton Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He is widely known as a leading expert in the field of ethnobotany. Dr. Moerman is the author of Native American Ethnobotany (Timber Press 1998), which received the 2000 Annual Literature Award from the Council on Botanical and show more Horticultural Libraries. From 2004 to 2009, he was editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Economic Botany. show less
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- Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Anthropology, Reference, History
- DDC/MDS
- 581.6 — Natural sciences & mathematics Plants (Botany) Specific topics in natural history of plants Miscellaneous nontaxonomic kinds of plants
- LCC
- E98 .B7 .M66 — History of the United States America Indians of North America
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- English
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