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Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1560229837
- ISBN-13:
- 9781560229834
- Pub. Date:
- 03/07/2006
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10:
- 1560229837
- ISBN-13:
- 9781560229834
- Pub. Date:
- 03/07/2006
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine / Edition 1
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Overview
- Tibetantioxidants as mediators of high-altitude nutritional physiology
- Northeast Thailand"wild" food plant gathering
- Southern Italythe consumption of wild plants by Albanians and Italians
- Northern Spainmedicinal digestive beverages
- United Statesmedicinal herb quality
- Commonwealth of Dominicahumoral medicine and food
- Cubapromoting health through medicinal foods
- Brazilmedicinal uses of specific fishes
- Brazilplants from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest
- Bolivian Andestraditional food medicines
- New Patagoniagathering of wild plant foods with medicinal uses
- Western Kenyauses of traditional herbs among the Luo people
- South Cameroonethnomycology in Africa
- Moroccofood medicine and ethnopharmacology
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781560229834 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 03/07/2006 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 430 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction (Andrea Pieroni and Lisa Leimar Price) Asia Europe North America The Caribbean South America Africa Chapter 1. Edible Wild Plants As Food and As Medicine: Reflections on Thirty Years of Fieldwork (Louis E. Grivetti) Introduction Genesis Three Decades of Ethnobotanical Research Reflections and Potential Research Areas Coda Chapter 2. Tibetan Foods and Medicines: Antioxidants As Mediators of High-Altitude Nutritional Physiology (Patrick L. Owen) Introduction Adaptations to Altitude Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants Tibetan High-Altitude Food Systems Tibetan Medicine Summary Chapter 3. Wild Food Plants in Farming Environments with Special Reference to Northeast Thailand, Food As Function and Medicinal, and Social Roles of Women (Lisa Leimar Price) Introduction Wild Plant Foods in the Farming Environment Women's Roles, Women's Work, and Women's Knowledge Consumption and Nutrition Overlaps: Medicinal and Functional Food Medicinal and Functional Food Wild Plants of Northeast Thailand Gathered Food Plants of Northeast Thailand with Medicinal Value Investigations of Wild Plant Foods As Functional/Medicinal Foods in Thailand Multiple Use Value, Rarity, and Privatization Conclusions Chapter 4. Functional Foods or Food Medicines? On the Consumption of Wild Plants Among Albanians and Southern Italians in LucaniaWhat People are Saying About This
Nina L. Etkin, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii
THIS IMPORTANT VOLUME showcases the convergence of medicinal and culinary practices. Scholars as well as popular consumers of food knowledge will be nourished by the insights they gain from this book. Its publication coincides with a growing interest in the West regarding the healthful qualities of foods, among both the scientific and lay communities. The research findings of the contributors represent various disciplinary perspectives and illustrate the rich diversity of cultural constructions and social negotiations of foods and medicines in traditional populations from all continents. Several contributors cast their work in the frame of ethnopharmacology by linking medical ethnography to the biology of therapeutic action. Others emphasize the importance of wild food sin traditional pharmacopoeias and diets, and link the erosion of that knowledge to problems of diminished biodiversity in the modern era. A minor but important theme illustrates the gendered nature of botanical knowledge as reflected in asymmetrical use patterns of certain plants. Issues of globalization are apparent as well in discussions of sourcing for the contemporary, primarily Western, nutraceutical and herbal products industry.
Timothy Johns, PhD, Professor of Human Nutrition, McGill University
In drawing on current research and methodologies at the interface between the biological and social sciences, THE AUTHORS OFFER EXCITING NEW INSIGHTS into an under-explored theme in the ethnobotanical literature, and provide a timely focus of theoretical and practical importance linking human health the conservation and use of biodiversity. The fact that traditional systems, once lost, are hard to recreate underlines the imperative for the kind of documentation, compilation, and dissemination of eroding knowledge of biocultural diversity represented by this book.