Eating and healing: traditional food as medicine

Auteur :
Pieroni, Andrea / Price, Lisa
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN :
9781560229834
Date de publication :
7 mars 2006
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
589 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Provides an overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods, and their medicinal properties within traditional societies. This volume bridges the scientific disciplines of medicine, food science, human ecology and environmental sciences with their ethno-scientific counterparts of ethnobotany, ethnoecology and ethnomedicine.