The ethnobotany of Eden : rethinking the jungle medicine narrative /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Voeks, Robert A., 1950- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Preface; Chapter One
  • God's Medicine Chest; The Jungle Medicine Narrative; The Biochemical Factory; Pharmacy in the Forest; The Environmental Claim; Chapter Two
  • Terra Mythica; Paradise; The Sexualized Forest; Dark Eden; The Illusion of Virginity; Cultural Rainforests; Footprints in the Forest; Chapter Three
  • People in the Forest; Tropical Monsters; New World Natives; Noble Savages; Are Africans Noble?; Environmental Determinism; Instinctive Ethnobotanists; Chapter Four
  • Green Gold; First, Do No Harm; Ethnobotanical Axioms; "The Woods Are Their Apothecaries"
  • Benefit SharingThe Age of Biopiracy; The Nutmeg Conspiracy; The Fever Tree; Chapter Five
  • Weeds in the Garden; Disturbance Pharmacopoeias; The Palma Christi; Food as Medicine; Chapter Six
  • Gender and Healing; Shamans; Sex and Space; Women Healers; Chapter Seven
  • Immigrant Ethnobotany; Candomblé Medicine; Botanical Conversations in the Black Atlantic; Maroon Magic and Medicine; Chapter Eight
  • Forgetting the Forest; What Is Traditional Plant Knowledge?; Ethnobotanical Change; Chapter Nine
  • Environmental Narratives; A Forest of Fables; Jungle Medicine Revisited; Epilogue; Notes; References