Justin M. Nolan

Wild Harvest in the Heartland

Ethnobotany in Missouri's Little Dixie

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This work is a detailed study of people and plants in Little Dixie, a seven-county region of central Missouri. Based on three summers of field research, Professor Nolan combines ethnoscience with folklore to document what and why people know about wild plants in this little-known section of the American Midwest. The book is organized around the cognitive and behavioral differences between local experts and novices who gather wild plant foods and medicines regularly throughout the seasons in Little Dixie. Ethnobotanical knowledge is described as an ongoing interaction between ecology and cognition, under constant modification by shifting cultu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7618-3652-0
EAN: 9780761836520
Produktnummer: 2687284
Verlag: University Press Of America
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 106 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.0 cm 319 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 319

Über den Autor

Justin M. Nolan, Ph.D. is Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. He was the recipient of the Students' Choice Teaching Award from the University of Missouri in 2000 and presently holds a position on the Board of Trustees for the Society of Ethnobiology. Professor Nolan continues to pursue fieldwork in ethnobiology and regional folklore in the American South.