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Ethnobotany of Mexico

Ethnobotany of Mexico


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Part I: History of Ethnobotany in Mexico
Chapter 1. Origins and Development of Mexican Ethnobotany
Abigail Aguilar

Chapter 2. Ethnobotany in México: Historical Trends and Development of Scientific Approaches
Andrés Camou, Alejandro Casas, et al.

Part II: Cultural Approaches in Ethnobotanical Studies
Chapter 3. Cosmos, Corpus, and Praxis: An Integrated Approach of the Study of Plants, Ecosystems, and Societies
Víctor M. Toledo and Narciso Barrera

Chapter 4. Ethnobotany and Mexican Biocultural Patrimony
Eckart Boege

Part III: Ecological Ethnobotany
Chapter 5. Ethnobotanical and Ecological Studies of Plant Populations
Javier Caballero, Rafael Lira et al.

Capítulo 6. Ethnobotanical and Ecological studies of Communities and Ecosystems
Alejandro Casas, Rafael Lira, Ana Isabel Moreno et al.

Part IV: Evolutionary Ethnobotany
Chapter 7. Domestication as an Continuing Process: From Populations to Landcape
Alejandro Casas, Fabiola Parra, Adriana Otero, Xitlali Aguirre, et al.

Chapter 8. Domestication of Annual Plants
Robert Bye, Cristina Mapes, Heike Vibrans, Beatriz Rendón, Rafael Lira, Isabelle Blanckaert, et al.

Chapter 9. Domestication of Perennial Plants.
Alejandro Casas, Patricia Colunga, Daniel Zizumbo, Fabiola Parra, Xitlali Aguirre

Part V: Plant Resources for the Future
Chapter 10. Useful plants of Mexico
Javier Caballero, Laura Cortés, et al.

Chapter 11. Medicinal Plants
Tzasná Hernández and Abigail Aguilar

Chapter 12. Food Plants
Cristina Mapes, Javier Caballero, Alejandro Casas, José Blancas

Part VI: Ethnobotany and Genetic Resources in México
Chapter 13. Maize
Luis Eguiarte and Daniel Piñero

Chapter 14. Beans
Alfonso Delgado, Paul Gepts, Daniel Debouck, Daniel Zizumbo, Patrícia Colunga, and Jorge Acosta

Chapter 15. Squashes
Rafael Lira, Salvador Montes,

Luis Eguiarte, Daniel Zizumbo, Patricia Colunga, and Mauricio Quesada

Chapter 16. Cotton
Ana Wegier and Daniel Piñero


About the Author:

Dr. Rafael Lira
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Laboratorio de Recursos Naturales, Los Reyes Iztacala, Tlanepantla, Mexico

Alejandro Casas, PhD
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781461466680
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Depth: 32
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 560
  • Series Title: Ethnobiology
  • Sub Title: Interactions of People and Plants in Mesoamerica
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1461466687
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jun 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 1st ed. 2016
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Weight: 1028 gr


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