Etnobotany

Definition

         Etnobotany is the science that studies and interpretates the history and the relation of plants in antique and actual societies.

         By this science it is possible knowing societies, its cultures and even creating subsidies for the recuperation of their histories.

 

         It is a truly relation between plants and men, emphasizing many branches of human knowledge, among them history, anthropology, botany, ecology etc.

 

         Etnobotany uses and gives value to peoples traditional knowledge and in a lot of views possible the understanding of their cultures, as also the practical use of plants.

 

         It is a truly scientific investigation using empiric traditional knowledge in pro of life quality improvement, not only of men, but as also of the environment, because with the knowledge of useful properties in anthropological terms, there is plants conservation as a consequence.

 

         So, it is not possible reducing in just a catalogue of medicinal plants and in the study of their properties, but in a science much bigger, as said before.

          

        Etnobotany collaborates to:

-          value knowledge and communities traditional Medicine;

-          flora preservation, using the acquired knowledge by scientific investigation;

-          useful property of vegetables species knowledge enlargement;

-          subsidies for ethnical, anthropological, botanical and ecological technical studies about the peoples who are involved on researches;

-          subsidies to the Public Power for developing socio-economic projects, as also the environmental ones.

        Sites

        - http://www.uco.es/organiza/servicios/jardin/etnobot.htm 

        - http://www.ub.es/botanica/greb/castella/etnobo2.htm

        - www.rc.unesp.br/xivsbsp/Palestra05MMCMA.PDF 

        - http://centros4.pntic.mec.es/ies.galileo.galilei/Biologia/jardetno.html 

        - http://mestieri.sysnet.it/etnobotanica/ita/

        - http://www.webislam.com/Portal/ciencia/botanica/etnobotanica.htm

        - http://www.webislam.com/Portal/ciencia/botanica/etnobotanica.htm

        - http://home.arcor.de/gereon.janzing/ethnobot.htm

        - http://home.arcor.de/gereon.janzing/etnobota.htm

        - http://www.umd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/herb

        - http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/Ethnobotany/

        - http://www.ethnobotany.com/index.html

        - http://anthro.fortlewis.edu/ethnobotany/

        - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/profiles/smason/smethnob.htm

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