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Field workers in ethnobotany and anthropology come across different local names of plants in different regions and localities and find it difficult to relate them with their botanical identity. The present book covers over 26000 tribal and rural local names documented from original research papers based on field work in the country in the last sixty years and provides corresponding botanical identity of the plants. Most of the local names are endemic to small ...
The present book contains twenty two papers from editors as well as other authors, which have made significant contributions in the field of Ethnobotany. The emphasis in this book is on concept, definition, methodologies in field work, recent techniques, approaches, dimensions, applications and future prospects of this subject and in this respect, the book is significantly different from some half a dozen recent compilations having mostly inventories, which are ...
India is rich in ethnic and floristic diversity and an enormous treasure house of traditional knowledge. Many scholars have worked hard to document this knowledge in the last 25 years (1991–2015) and this book is a concise representation of this ethnobotanical information in one single volume, covering 1000 references. It contains ethnobotanical data such as the uses of over 4600 plant species for medicine, food, material or for religious and cultural ...