Wild Harvest in the Heartland
Justin M. Nolan
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Description for Wild Harvest in the Heartland
Hardback. Num Pages: 100 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBNU; PSB; RBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
This work is a detailed study of people and plants in Little Dixie, a seven-county region of central Missouri. Based on three summers of field research, Professor Nolan combines ethnoscience with folklore to document what and why people know about wild plants in this little-known section of the American Midwest. The book is organized around the cognitive and behavioral differences between local experts and "novices" who gather wild plant foods and medicines regularly throughout the seasons in Little Dixie. Ethnobotanical knowledge is described as an ongoing interaction between ecology and cognition, under constant modification by shifting cultural beliefs about edibility, ... Read more
This work is a detailed study of people and plants in Little Dixie, a seven-county region of central Missouri. Based on three summers of field research, Professor Nolan combines ethnoscience with folklore to document what and why people know about wild plants in this little-known section of the American Midwest. The book is organized around the cognitive and behavioral differences between local experts and "novices" who gather wild plant foods and medicines regularly throughout the seasons in Little Dixie. Ethnobotanical knowledge is described as an ongoing interaction between ecology and cognition, under constant modification by shifting cultural beliefs about edibility, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761836520
SKU
V9780761836520
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About Justin M. Nolan
Justin M. Nolan, Ph.D. is Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. He was the recipient of the Students' Choice Teaching Award from the University of Missouri in 2000 and presently holds a position on the Board of Trustees for the Society of Ethnobiology. Professor Nolan continues to pursue fieldwork in ethnobiology and regional folklore in the ... Read more
Reviews for Wild Harvest in the Heartland
This short, compact study is a model of ethnobotanical research, and I highly recommend it for classroom use. Nolan hardly wastes a word. He states the theory, methodology, and major findings clearly and straightforwardly, and thus can get an astonishing amount of data into a hundred pages. The simple, accessible prose quickly gives way to highly sophisticated, mathematicized analysis.
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