Finally, something I can answer! I studied ethnobotany: it's how
humans/cultures view/use plant materials, including cultivation,
preparation for foods & medicines and inclusion of certain plants in
cultural/social/ritual aspects of life.
Debra
I was thinking of trying to take my sister and family to Caprilands this =
Saturday but it's an event weekend.
August 18th Jason Mancini, Ethnobotanist, Mashantucket Pequot Museum, =
"Ethno-botany Walk"
What's an ethno botanist?
Esther
ethno botanist would maybe be the plant equivalent of a food anthropologist?
How's that for a stab at it.
Barbara M. Martin
I was thinking of trying to take my sister and family to Caprilands this
Saturday but it's an event weekend.
August 18th Jason Mancini, Ethnobotanist, Mashantucket Pequot Museum,
"Ethno-botany Walk"
What's an ethno botanist?
Esther
That's pretty close and nicely put.
Encarta says ethnobotany is the scientific study of the traditional
classification and uses of plants in different human societies.
Ontario Bill in Kars, USDA Z 4B/5A
ReUse, Recycle, or Rot
anthropologist?
So the event at Caprilands would be taking a walk with a botanist who can
tell us about how plants have been used in various cultures/settings? That
sounds kinda cool to me.
It's pretty last minute of me to be looking at it today, though.
Esther
What is Caprilands, some place where they keep goats (caprids)?
Curious George, off to Houston but I'll read my mail via webmail
Esther Czekalski wrote:
For some fascinating ethno-botanical reading, check out " Tales of a
Shaman's Apprentice : An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the
Amazon Rain Forest " by Mark J. Plotkin. He spent time among the native
people of the Amazon river basin, trying to document how they used plants as
the both the plants and the traditional culture were starting to disappear.
It's a rare book in that it has a lot of detailed information but is written
in an engaging, page-turning style.
No affiliation, etc, just glad to find a spot to put in a word for a
favorite book.
Sue
ScarletSage@att.net
Zone 6, south-central PA
Barbara, I like your definition. I had to take a 6:00 AM graduate
course in ethnobotany from a rather "ho-hum" cryptoprofessor . The
exam was a 5:00 AM field trip and a pass/fail grade. If you showed
up, you passed... too bad. I don't remember anything from the
course.
Linda, gardening in NW Ohio near Toledo / Lake Erie (USDA Zone 5)
Metrofarm known as Blue Clay Plantation
llbs@mail.accesstoledo.com
It's an herb farm in Connecticut. I visited it on my way home from a trip
to Whiteflower farm that was organized by some of us on this list. Can't
remember who it was said, I just had to visit it on my way home and it was a
magical experience. Some people may remember me enthusing at the time and I
still remember the white cat that appeared out of the bushes in the white
garden "room" and accompanied me for the rest of the tour.
They serve lunch with advance notice and I haven't tried it yet. Lunch is
part of this weekend's event. I am probably not going to go as my
bro-in-law and niece would be bored stiff. Also they are all vegetarians
and I doubt if there are many choices on the menu. If there is a menu.
I've tried once or twice to get Jaime to meet me there; she never seems to
be free or motivated when I am and vice versa. But it's on my list.
Esther
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