1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006413810403321

Autore

Baffier, Dominique

Titolo

Les derniers Néandertaliens : Le châtelperronieu / Dominique Baffier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : La maison des roches, 1999

ISBN

2-912691-04-4

Descrizione fisica

114 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Histoire de la France préistorique

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

A 2092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789630103321

Autore

Peters Josephine Grant

Titolo

After the first full moon in April [[electronic resource] ] : a sourcebook of herbal medicine from a California Indian elder / / Josephine Grant Peters and Beverly R. Ortiz ; including contributions from Cheryl Beck ... [et al.] ; Karuk plant names by James A. Ferrara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, CA, : Left Coast Press, c2010

ISBN

1-315-43529-2

1-61132-792-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BeckCheryl

OrtizBev

Disciplina

615.321089970794

979.4/1004975

979.41004975

Soggetti

Herbs - Therapeutic use - California

Indian women healers - California

Karok Indians - Medicine - California

Karok Indians - California - Social life and customs

Karok women - California



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Spirit People; The Peppernut; The Peppernut Story; 1. A Life Well Lived; 2. Gathering Ethics; 3. Herbal Medicines and Native Plant Foods; 4. The Plants; 5. Non-herbal Cures; Endnotes; References; Plant Index; Medical Conditions Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this extraordinary book Josephine Peters, a respected northern California Indian elder and Native healer, shares her vast, lifelong cultural and plant knowledge. The book begins with Josephine''s personal and tribal history and gathering ethics. Josephine then instructs the reader in medicinal and plant food preparations and offers an illustrated catalog of the uses and doses of over 160 plants. At a time of the commercialization of traditional ecological knowledge, Peters presents her rich tradition on her own terms, and according to her spiritual convictions about how her knowledge should