Según estimaciones de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, más del 80% de la población
mundial, especialmente en los países en desarrollo, utiliza tratamientos tradicionales a …

971 references on wild foods in agricultural systems are selected with the intention to
provide an indication of the range of research carried out on this subject, highlighting key …

O livro reúne a produção ensaística da antropóloga Manuela Carneiro da Cunha em mais
de 30 anos de trajetória. Com pesquisas realizadas na Amazônia e na África Ocidental e …

This paper describes a new, simple, quantitative technique for evaluating the relative
usefulness of plants to people. The technique is then compared to the quantitative …

Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Mary W. Klinger Book Award. Cultural Forests
of the Amazon is a comprehensive and diverse account of how indigenous people …

The Ka'apor people are small-scale, village-level swidden horticulturalists of the extreme
eastern Amazonian state of Maranhão. The first 2 chapters give an introduction and …

In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of 'technology'itself
a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a …

Ethnobotany, as a research field of science, has been widely used for the documentation of
indigenous knowledge on the use of plants and for providing an inventory of useful plants …

Global environmental change often seems to be the most carefully examined issue of our
time. Yet understanding the human sideâ€" human causes of and responses to …

IN A STUNNING REVERSAL OF IDEOLOGICAL FORTUNE, traditional people in the
Amazon, who until recently were deemed, at best, candidates for, if not hindrances to," …