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Historical Ethnobotany: Interpreting the Old Records
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History is the basis for our interpretation of humanity’s past. Indeed, new developments in digital humanities and the digitalization of archives can place historical sources in a new light. Systematized historical sources allow us to see the practical changes that have occurred over centuries of ethnobotany and analyze (although sometimes solely hypothesize on) the causes of such changes. Studying history helps us to understand the influences on the evolution of local ecological knowledge regarding plant use. In ethnobotany, numerous understudied historical sources are awaiting modern interpretations. Old uses enhanced by the new possibilities offered by technology can enrich our everyday lives. Yet, understanding historical sources, especially in ethnobotany, where several disciplines are involved, is not univocal. Mistakes introduced by misidentified plants or information misinterpreted from old languages can have negative, long-term consequences. This Special Issue provides examples of the critical analyses of various historical sources and insights into ongoing historical and diachronic studies on plant use. This reprint is intended for a broad interdisciplinary audience interested in historical ethnobotany, history of plant studies, and human culture.
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Keywords
- Alps
- anthropology
- arable weed conservation
- archive data
- Art
- Babylonian Talmud
- Baroque
- biocultural diversity
- Biology, Life Sciences
- Borders
- Central Europe
- charismatic species
- Courland
- Cultural history
- cultural relict plants
- cultural symbols
- cyprus
- diachronic comparison
- duckweed
- early citizen science studies
- Easter eggs
- Estonian history
- ethnobotanical convergence
- ethnobotanical investigation
- Ethnobotany
- ethnomedicine
- ethnopharmacology
- flax
- floral elements
- folk medicine
- Folk poetry
- folklore collections
- herbal remedies
- Hildegard von Bingen
- historical ethnobotany
- historical ethnopharmacology
- Historical sources
- history of ethnobotany
- history of ethnomedicine
- Ho Ching-ming
- human–plants relations
- Kurma Purana
- living biocultural heritage
- Livonia
- local ecological knowledge
- maronites
- Mathematics & science
- Medicinal plants
- Mediterranean Diet
- mountain regions
- n/a
- natural dyes
- NE Mediterranean
- old herbals
- Ono no Komachi
- Paul Emile Botta
- Pelješac peninsula
- plant identification
- plant symbolism
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Research & information: general
- Ritual of the Bacabs
- ritual plants
- sacral heritage
- scholarly medicine
- silvopastoral system
- Textiles
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
- Traditional ecological knowledge
- traditional use
- Useful Plants
- wild food plants
- wild greens
- wool
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-9398-2Editions