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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298345303321

Titolo

Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans : Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation / / edited by Andrea Pieroni, Cassandra L. Quave

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

1-4939-1492-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

570

577

580

Soggetti

Plant science

Botany

Biodiversity

Systems biology

Plant Sciences

Systems Biology

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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ethnobotany in the Balkans: Quo Vadis? -- Ways the Lukomir Highlanders of Bosnia and Herzegovina Treat Diabetes -- Hungarian Ethnobotanical Studies in Romania -- Bulgarian Medical Ethnobotany: The Power of Plants in Pragmatic and Poetic Frames -- Cross-Cultural Ethnobotany of the Sharr Mountains (North-Western Macedonia) -- An Ethnobotanical and Ethnomedicinal Study on the Use of Wild Medicinal Plants in Rural Areas of Serbia -- Medical Ethnobotanical Studies in Kosovo -- Wild Food Plants of Dalmatia (Croatia) -- The Use of Wild Plants for Human Nutrition During a War: Eastern Bosnia (Western Balkans) -- Wild Food and Medicinal Plants Used in the Mountainous Albanian North, North-East, and East: A Comparison -- Medicinal Plants in Northern Montenegro: Traditional Knowledge, Quality, and Resources -- Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Traditional Use of Plants in Serbia in Relation to Sustainable Rural Development.



Sommario/riassunto

This volume addresses recent and ongoing ethnobotanical studies in the Balkans. The book focuses on elaborating the relevance of such studies for future initiatives in this region, both in terms of sustainable and peaceful (trans-regional, trans-cultural) rural development. A multi-disciplinary viewpoint is utilized, with an incorporation of historical, ethnographic, linguistic, biological, nutritional and medical perspectives. The book is also authored by recognized scholars, who in the last decade have extensively researched the Balkan traditional knowledge systems as they pertain to perceptions of the natural world and especially plants. Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans is the first ethnobotany book on one of the most biologically and culturally diverse regions of the world and is a valuable resource for both scholars and students interested in the field of ethnobotany.