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The Ethnobotany of Eden
Rethinking the Jungle Medicine Narrative
Robert A. Voeks
(2018)
Sprog: Engelsk
om ca. 10 hverdage
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- Hardback: 328 sider
- Udgiver: University of Chicago Press (Juli 2018)
- ISBN: 9780226547718
By exploring the interconnected worlds of anthropology, botany, and geography, Voeks shows that well-intentioned scientists and environmentalists originally crafted the jungle narrative with the primary goal of saving the world's tropical rainforests from destruction. It was a strategy deployed to address a pressing environmental problem, one that appeared at a propitious point in history just as the Western world was taking a more globalized view of environmental issues. And yet, although supported by science and its practitioners, the story was also underpinned by a persuasive mix of myth, sentimentality, and nostalgia for a long-lost tropical Eden. Resurrecting the fascinating history of plant prospecting in the tropics, from the colonial era to the present day, The Ethnobotany of Eden rewrites with modern science the degradation narrative we've built up around tropical forests, revealing the entangled origins of our fables of forest cures.
1. God's Medicine Chest The Jungle Medicine Narrative The Biochemical Factory Pharmacy in the Forest The Environmental Claim
2. Terra Mythica Paradise The Sexualized Forest Dark Eden The Illusion of Virginity Cultural Rainforests Footprints in the Forest
3. People in the Forest Tropical Monsters New World Natives Noble Savages Are Africans Noble? Environmental Determinism Instinctive Ethnobotanists
4. Green Gold First, Do No Harm Ethnobotanical Axioms "The Woods Are Their Apothecaries" Benefit Sharing The Age of Biopiracy The Nutmeg Conspiracy The Fever Tree
5. Weeds in the Garden Disturbance Pharmacopoeias The Palma Christi Food as Medicine
6. Gender and Healing Shamans Sex and Space Women Healers
7. Immigrant Ethnobotany Candombl? Medicine Botanical Conversations in the Black Atlantic Maroon Magic and Medicine
8. Forgetting the Forest What Is Traditional Plant Knowledge? Ethnobotanical Change
9. Environmental Narratives A Forest of Fables Jungle Medicine Revisited Epilogue Notes References
Index
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