Plants of life, plants of death
Auteur :
Simoons, Frederick J.
Éditeur :
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN :
9780299159009
Date de publication :
25 nov. 1998
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
This study examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity and life, and plants associated with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate and death. It provides detail from history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany and medicine.