Traveling Cultures and Plants - The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations - Grand Format

Interest in environmental anthropology has grown steadily in recent years, reflecting national and international concern about the environment and developing research priorities. This major new international series is a vehicle for publishing up-to-date monographs and edited works on particular issues, themes, places, or peoples which focus on the interrelationship between society, culture, and the environment.
Relevant areas include human ecology, the perception and representation of the environment, ethno-ecological knowledge, the human dimension of biodiversity conservation, and the ethnography of environmental problems. While the underlying ethos of the series will be anthropological, the approach is interdisciplinary. Fueled in part by rapid globalization, urbanization, and other societal and environmental changes, there has been a significant increase in human migration, leading to the creation of new transnational communities and diasporas.
This is bringing about many challenging issues for society, such as those related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care. At the same time, traditional knowledge, beliefs, and practices related to the use of plants is evolving as these migrating communities come in contact with other cultures, modalities, and plant species in their new environment.
The contributors to this volume - all internationally recognized scholars in the fields of ethnobiology, transcultural health, and medical anthropology - analyze the dynamics of traditional knowledge over time and place, using 12 case studies ranging from North America to Europe and Africa.