Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans: Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation

by Andrea Pieroni (Editor), Cassandra L. Quave (Editor)

Overview

This volume addresses recent and ongoing ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans. The book focuses on elaborating the relevance of such studies for future initiatives in this region, both in terms of sustainable and peaceful (trans-regional, trans-cultural) rural development. A multi-disciplinary viewpoint is utilized, with an incorporation of historical, ethnographic, linguistic, biological, nutritional and medical perspectives. The book is also authored by recognized scholars, who in the last decade have extensively researched the Balkan traditional knowledge systems as they pertain to perceptions of the natural world and especially plants.

Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans is the first ethnobotany book on one of the most biologically and culturally diverse regions of the world and is a valuable resource for both scholars and students interested in the field of ethnobotany.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493954940
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	09/10/2016
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Pages:	255
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Andrea Pieroni, PhD
University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, Italy

Cassandra L. Quave, PhD
Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology and Center for the Study of Human Health, Atlanta, GA, USA

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Ethnobotany in the Balkans: Quo Vadis?

Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave

Part I. From Folk Medicine to the Medicinal Plant Trade

Chapter 2. Ways the Lukomir Highlanders of Bosnia and Herzegovina Treat Diabetes

Jonathan Ferrier, Lana Šačiragić, Eric C.H. Chen, Sabina Trakić, Ammar Saleem, Emira Alikadić, Alain Cuerrier, Michael J. Balick, John T. Arnason, and Sulejman Redžić

Chapter 3. Hungarian Ethnobotanical Studies in Romania

Nóra Papp, Kata Birkás-Frendl, Ágnes Farkas, and Dóra Czégényi

Chapter 4. Bulgarian Medical Ethnobotany: The Power of Plants in Pragmatic and Poetic Frames

Anely Nedelcheva and Stefan Draganov

Chapter 5. Cross-Cultural Ethnobotany of the Sharr Mountains (North-Western Macedonia)

Besnik Rexhepi, Behxhet Mustafa, Avni Hajdari, Jehona Rushidi-Rexhepi, Cassandra L. Quave, and Andrea Pieroni

Chapter 6. An Ethnobotanical and Ethnomedicinal Study on the Use of Wild Medicinal Plants in Rural Areas of Serbia

Snežana Jarić, Miroslava Mitrović, and Pavle Pavlović

Chapter 7. Medical Ethnobotanical Studies in Kosovo

Behxhet Mustafa and Avni Hajdari

Part II. Balkan Traditional Plant-Based Foods: Beyond the Ottoman Cuisine

Chapter 8. Wild Food Plants of Dalmatia (Croatia)

Łukasz Łuczaj, Katija Dolina, Norma Fressel, and Stjepan Perković

Chapter 9. The Use of Wild Plants for Human Nutrition During a War: Eastern Bosnia (Western

Balkans)

Sulejman Redžić and Jonathan Ferrier

Chapter 10. Wild Food and Medicinal Plants Used in the Mountainous Albanian North, North-East, and East: A Comparison                                                                                                     

Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave

Part III. Building Small-scale, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Economies

Chapter 11. Medicinal Plants in Northern Montenegro: Traditional Knowledge,

Quality, and Resources

Nebojša Menković, Katarina Šavikin, Gordana Zdunić, Slobodan Milosavljević, and Jelena

Živković

Chapter 12. Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Traditional Use of Plants in Serbia in Relation to

Sustainable Rural Development

Zora Dajić Stevanović, Milica Petrović, and Svetlana Aćić

Editorial Reviews

The book offers a panoramic view of Balkan ethnobotany with a precise focus on post-conflict ecology, landscapes affected by contemporary urbanization, and targeted solutions for bioconservation and economic sustainability. It is required reading for scholars in any discipline who study the Balkan peninsula and would certainly belong in libraries … .” (Taylor Walker, Economic Botany, Vol. 70 (1), 2016)

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