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- catalog abstract ""Native American Ethnobotany is a comprehensive account of the plants used by Native American peoples for medicine, food, and other purposes. The author, anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman, has devoted more than 25 years to the compilation of the ethnobotanical knowledge slowly gathered over the course of many centuries and recorded in hundreds of firsthand studies of American Indians made over the past 150 years. This research has yielded a treasure-trove of information whose magnitude will surprise even those familiar with the anthropological and botanical literature: it documents Native American use of 4029 kinds of plants with a total of 44,691 usages."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10564474.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Native American Ethnobotany is a comprehensive account of the plants used by Native American peoples for medicine, food, and other purposes. The author, anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman, has devoted more than 25 years to the compilation of the ethnobotanical knowledge slowly gathered over the course of many centuries and recorded in hundreds of firsthand studies of American Indians made over the past 150 years. This research has yielded a treasure-trove of information whose magnitude will surprise even those familiar with the anthropological and botanical literature: it documents Native American use of 4029 kinds of plants with a total of 44,691 usages."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [619]-623) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Plant use by Native Americans -- Plants used as drugs -- Plants used as foods -- Plants used as fibers and dyes -- Plants with other uses -- Conclusions on usages -- Sources of information on plant usages -- Plant usage categories -- Native Americans -- Organization of the information in Native American ethnobotany -- Scientific plant names -- Common plant names -- Ethnobotanical information -- Catalog of plants -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Plant usage indexes -- Index of tribes -- Index od usages -- Plant name indexes -- Index of synonyms -- Index of common names.".
- catalog extent "927 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0881924539".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Portland, Or. : Timber Press,".
- catalog spatial "North America".
- catalog spatial "North America.".
- catalog subject "1999 H-677".
- catalog subject "581.6/097 21".
- catalog subject "E98.B7 M66 1998".
- catalog subject "Ethnobotany North America Encyclopedias English.".
- catalog subject "Ethnobotany North America.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Ethnobotany.".
- catalog subject "Indians, North American North America Encyclopedias English.".
- catalog subject "Plants, Medicinal North America Encyclopedias English.".
- catalog subject "QV 13 M694n 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Plant use by Native Americans -- Plants used as drugs -- Plants used as foods -- Plants used as fibers and dyes -- Plants with other uses -- Conclusions on usages -- Sources of information on plant usages -- Plant usage categories -- Native Americans -- Organization of the information in Native American ethnobotany -- Scientific plant names -- Common plant names -- Ethnobotanical information -- Catalog of plants -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Plant usage indexes -- Index of tribes -- Index od usages -- Plant name indexes -- Index of synonyms -- Index of common names.".
- catalog title "Native American ethnobotany / Daniel E. Moerman.".
- catalog type "text".