Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of Southern California (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Monographs)
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597140481 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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. About the Author Jan Timbrook, an anthropologist and ethnobiologist who specializes in the indigenous Chumash people of the Santa Barbara region particularly their uses of plants in food, medicine, and basketry is now in her thirty-second year in the anthropology department at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
"This is a great book for those that are interested in native plants" according to Rodney L Ferguson. This is a great book for those that are interested in native plants and how they were used by native americans!. elayne said Great research.. Great for native planting.. Harrington's ethnobotany of the Chumash James D. Adams Jan Timbrook has produced a useful recounting of the ethnobotany found in John Harrington's notes. Harrington was an Anthropologist from the Smithsonian Institution who died in 1961. However, little effort has been made to correct Harrington's mistakes. The section on Datura is useful and reminds the reader of the importance of spirituality in Chumash heal
Living intimately within this land for more than nine thousand years, the Chumash developed an intense and sophisticated relationship with the plants around them. Covering both historic and contemporary use of plants, this book - the result of three decades of research in archives and among native people - celebrates more than just the variety of plants; it celebrates the resourcefulness and ingenuity of the people who have always known them best.. They collected and processed nuts, seeds, berries, roots, leaves, twigs, shoots, and wood from which they created practically everything they needed to live, from medicines to weapons to decorative items. From islands off the shore of Santa Barbara to the chaparral-covered mountains of the dry inland regions, the land of the Chumash is a storehouse of plants, an area of great biological richness and variety
. Jan Timbrook, an anthropologist and ethnobiologist who specializes in the indigenous Chumash people of the Santa Barbara region particularly their uses of plants in food, medicine, and basketry is now in her thirty-second year in the anthropology department at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History