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ISBN10: 8124606196, ISBN13: 9788124606193, [publisher: DK Printworld] Hardcover Contents Preface Acknowledgement 1 Introduction 2 Locality Communities and Method of Study 3 Enumeration of Ethnobotanical Plants 4 Ethnotaxonomy of Plants 5 Plants and Concepts in Healing 6 Forests and Non-Timber Forest Products 7 Agro-biodiversity 8 Indigenous Technologies Bibliography IndexUnderstanding the ecological knowledge of tribal and rural societies is necessary to conserve and sustain natural resources This volume discusses the history and importance of ethnobotany with specific reference to four tribal communities of Odisha India It begins with an account of the nature of the tribes involved in the study Based on participatory fieldwork it presents an insiders account of the tribal culture and its relationship with plants It provides the ethnobotanical descriptions of 210 species of plants belonging to 77 families presenting their local names origin and the medicinal cultural culinary economic ecological uses of the species It takes up study of the plants used by tribes in the drug-based and spiritual healing processes elaborating the philosophies behind knowledge transmission such as divination hereditary discipleship and kinship Related aspects such as disease diagnosis diet restrictions and rituals are depicted in detail There is a special chapter on forests and non-timber forest products NTFPs that details the efforts of communities in forest conservation their land-use pa ...
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