The ethnobotany of Eden : rethinking the jungle medicine narrative /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018.
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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