Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation
Redaktion: Pieroni, Andrea; Quave, Cassandra L.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Seitenzahl: 255
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781493914920
• Artikelnr.: 43784236

Autorenporträt

Andrea Pieroni, PhD University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, Italy Cassandra L. Quave, PhD Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology and Center for the Study of Human Health, Atlanta, GA, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Ethnobotany in the Balkans: Quo Vadis?

Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave

Part I. From Folk Medicine to the Medicinal Plant Trade

Chapter 2. Ways the Lukomir Highlanders of Bosnia and Herzegovina Treat Diabetes

Jonathan Ferrier, Lana Saciragic, Eric C.H. Chen, Sabina Trakic, Ammar Saleem, Emira Alikadic, Alain Cuerrier, Michael J. Balick, John T. Arnason, and Sulejman Redzic

Chapter 3. Hungarian Ethnobotanical Studies in Romania

Nóra Papp, Kata Birkás-Frendl, Ágnes Farkas, and Dóra Czégényi

Chapter 4. Bulgarian Medical Ethnobotany: The Power of Plants in Pragmatic and Poetic Frames

Anely Nedelcheva and Stefan Draganov

Chapter 5. Cross-Cultural Ethnobotany of the Sharr Mountains (North-Western Macedonia)

Besnik Rexhepi, Behxhet Mustafa, Avni Hajdari, Jehona Rushidi-Rexhepi, Cassandra L. Quave, and Andrea Pieroni

Chapter 6. An Ethnobotanical and Ethnomedicinal Study on the Use of Wild Medicinal Plants in Rural Areas of Serbia

Snezana Jaric, Miroslava Mitrovic, and Pavle Pavlovic

Chapter 7. Medical Ethnobotanical Studies in Kosovo

Behxhet Mustafa and Avni Hajdari

Part II. Balkan Traditional Plant-Based Foods: Beyond the Ottoman Cuisine

Chapter 8. Wild Food Plants of Dalmatia (Croatia)

Lukasz Luczaj, Katija Dolina, Norma Fressel, and Stjepan Perkovic

Chapter 9. The Use of Wild Plants for Human Nutrition During a War: Eastern Bosnia (Western

Balkans)

Sulejman Redzic and Jonathan Ferrier

Chapter 10. Wild Food and Medicinal Plants Used in the Mountainous Albanian North, North-East, and East: A Comparison

Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave

Part III. Building Small-scale, Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Economies

Chapter 11. Medicinal Plants in Northern Montenegro: Traditional Knowledge,

Quality, and Resources

Nebojsa Menkovic, Katarina Savikin, Gordana Zdunic, Slobodan Milosavljevic, and Jelena

Zivkovic

Chapter 12. Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Traditional Use of Plants in Serbia in Relation to

Sustainable Rural Development

Zora Dajic Stevanovic, Milica Petrovic, and Svetlana Acic

Rezensionen

"The book offers a panoramic view of Balkan ethnobotany with a precise focus on post-conflict ecology, landscapes affected by contemporary urbanization, and targeted solutions for bioconservation and economic sustainability. It is required reading for scholars in any discipline who study the Balkan peninsula and would certainly belong in libraries ... ." (Taylor Walker, Economic Botany, Vol. 70 (1), 2016)