ETHNOBOTANY

This reader in ethnobotany includes fourteen chapters organized in four parts. Paul Minnis provides a general introduction; the authors of the section introductions are Catherine S. Foeler (ethnoecology) Cecil H. Brown (folk classification) Timothy Jones (foods and medicines) and Richard I. Ford (agriculture).Ethnobotany: A Reader is intended for use as a textbook in upper division undergraduate and graduate courses in economic botany ethnobotany and human ecology. The book brings together for the first time previously published journal articles that provide diverse perspectives on a wide variety of topics in ethnobotany. Contributors include: Janis B. Alcorn M. Kat Anderson Stephen B. Brush Robert A. Bye George F. Estabrook David H. French Eugene S. Hunn Charles F. Hutchinson Eric Mellink Paul E. Minnis Brian Morris Gary P. Nabhan Amadeo M. Rea Karen L. Reichhardt Jan Timbrook Nancy J. Turner and Robert A. Voeks.