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Tables of Contents for Ethnobotany
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The 'People and Plants' Initiative
Alan Hamilton
x
International Panel of Advisers
xii
Internal Panel of Advisers
xiv
Foreword
Professor G.T. Prance
xvi
Preface
xvii
Introduction
xx
1 Data collection and hypothesis testing
1
26
1.1 Choosing an approach
2
1
1.2 Six disciplines which contribute to an ethnobotanical study
3
1
1.3 Rapid ethnobotanical appraisal
3
4
1.4 Planning a long-term project
7
1
1.5 Describing the field site
8
2
1.6 Ethnobotanical data
10
8
1.7 Visual aids
18
1
1.8 The law of diminishing returns
19
4
1.9 Hypothesis testing and theory
23
4
2 Botany
27
40
2.1 Collecting and identifying plants
28
31
2.2 Preparing an ethnobotanical reference collection
59
1
2.3 Herbaria and the curation of plant specimens
59
2
2.4 Judging the completeness of a plant survey
61
6
3 Ethnopharmacology and related fields
67
28
3.1 Proceeding with a phytochemical analysis
68
9
3.2 Screening
77
4
3.3 Collecting plants for phytochemical analysis
81
8
3.4 The ethics of searching for new plant products
89
2
3.5 Bringing phytochemistry back home
91
4
4 Anthropology
95
42
4.1 Talking with local people
96
16
4.2 Searching for ethnobotanical information in folklore
112
4
4.3 Surveys and analytical tools
116
21
5 Ecology
137
34
5.1 Describing microenvironments and quantifying their plant resources
138
1
5.2 Qualitative approaches
138
17
5.3 Bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative approaches
155
1
5.4 Quantitative approaches
155
16
6 Economics
171
30
6.1 Economics and ethnobotany
172
1
6.2 The value of the environment
172
1
6.3 The value of forest products
173
10
6.4 Surveys of community and household economy
183
8
6.5 Local markets
191
10
7 Linguistics
201
22
7.1 Learning a local language
202
1
7.2 Collaborating with linguists
202
1
7.3 Where there is no linguist
203
1
7.4 Transcribing the local language
204
1
7.5 Linguistic analysis in ethnobotany
205
8
7.6 Free listing
213
2
7.7 Systematic surveys of local plant knowledge
215
1
7.8 Categories of ethnobiological classification
215
3
7.9 The correspondence between folk and scientific classification
218
5
8 Ethnobotany, conservation and community development
223
30
8.1 Applying traditional ecological knowledge
224
1
8.2 Ethnobotanical research and community development
224
1
8.3 Forests
225
3
8.4 Conservation of wild crop relatives and endangered useful plants
228
3
8.5 Education
231
3
8.6 Use of protected areas
234
5
8.7 The local perspective on ethnobotanical research
239
12
8.8 The path ahead
251
2
References
253
8
Further reading
261
2
Index
263