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List Of Ethnobotanists
{{expand list, date=April 2013 This is a list of ethnobotanists. * Isabella Abbott * Robert Bye * Michael Jeffrey Balick * Paul Alan Cox * Tony Cunningham * Wade Davis * James A. Duke * Nina Etkin * Maria Fadiman * Erna Gunther * Kathleen Harrison * John William Harshberger * Dennis McKenna * Terence McKenna * Gary Paul Nabhan * Jonathan Ott * Keewaydinoquay Peschel * Luigi Piacenza * Andrea Pieroni * Mark Plotkin * Timothy Plowman * Cassandra L. Quave * Jan Salick * Giorgio Samorini * Richard Evans Schultes *Merlin Sheldrake * Daniel Siebert * Constantino Manuel Torres * Nancy Turner * Ina Vandebroek * Gustav Vilbaste * R. Gordon Wasson * Ulrich Willerding * Arthur Whistler * James Wong * Charles Bixler Heiser * Norman Farnsworth See also * Ethnobotany Ethnobotanists Ethnobotany is the study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people. An ethnobotanist thus strives to document the local cus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnobotany
Ethnobotany is the study of a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of a local culture and people. An ethnobotanist thus strives to document the local customs involving the practical uses of local flora for many aspects of life, such as plants as medicines, foods, intoxicants and clothing. Richard Evans Schultes, often referred to as the "father of ethnobotany", explained the discipline in this way: Ethnobotany simply means ... investigating plants used by societies in various parts of the world. Since the time of Schultes, the field of ethnobotany has grown from simply acquiring ethnobotanical knowledge to that of applying it to a modern society, primarily in the form of pharmaceuticals. Intellectual property rights and benefit-sharing arrangements are important issues in ethnobotany. History The idea of ethnobotany was first proposed by the early 20th century botanist John William Harshberger. While Harshberger did perform ethnobotanical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keewaydinoquay Peschel
Keewaydinoquay Pakawakuk Peschel (1919 – July 21,1999) was a scholar, ethnobotanist, herbalist, medicine woman, teacher and author. She claimed she was an Anishinaabeg Elder of the Crane Clan. She was born in Michigan around 1919 and spent time on Garden Island, a traditional Anishinaabeg homeland. Biography According to her biography, Keewaydinoquay was born in a fishing boat en route to the hospital from the Manitou Islands, which capsized shortly thereafter, and her survival was interpreted as miraculous. Her childhood name, meaning "Walks with Bears", derived from an incident where as a toddler she was left on a blanket as her parents gathered blueberries, returning to see her standing by bears, eating blueberries off the bushes. Her adult name Giiwedinokwe, recorded as "Keewaydinoquay", means "Woman of the North est Wind and came from her vision quest. She claimed she apprenticed with the noted Anishinaabeg medicine woman Nodjimahkwe from the age of 9 and worked for many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ina Vandebroek
Ina Vandebroek is an ethnobotanist working in the areas of floristics, ethnobotany and community health. Since 2005, she has worked at The New York Botanical Garden in the Institute of Economic Botany. She has worked on ethnobotanical projects in North America, the Caribbean, and South America. Education In 1991, Vandebroek received a BSc. in biology from Ghent University in Belgium with research in the fields of morphology and systematics. Her undergraduate dissertation was on the effects of naloxone and apomorphine on captivity-induced stereotyped behavior in the bank vole ('' Clethrionomys glareolus''). In 1998, she received a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from Ghent University with a graduate dissertation titled "Research into the neurobiochemical background of captivity-induced stereotyped behavior in the bank vole ( Clethrionomys glareolus): ethopharmacology and intra-cerebral microdialysis". Career Ghent University From 2000 until 2002, Vandebroek worked as a postdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Turner
Nancy Jean Turner (born 1947) is a notable North American ethnobiologist, originally qualified in botany, who has done extensive research work with the indigenous peoples of British Columbia, the results of which she has documented in a number of books and numerous articles. Life Turner was born in Berkeley in California in 1947 but moved to British Columbia when she was five. She obtained her doctorate in Ethnobotany after studying the Bella Coola, Haida and Lillooet indigenous groups of the Pacific North-West. She works by interviewing the groups' elder members to identify their names for plants and their uses. Comparison and scientific analysis of this data has enabled her to draw conclusions. Turner's research identified not only the role that plants have had in these group's culture but also the effects that indigenous people have had historically on the landscape of Canada. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantino Manuel Torres
Constantino Manuel Torres, known as Manuel Torres, is an archaeologist and ethnobotanist specialising in the ethnobotany of pre-columbian South America and the Caribbean. In particular, he has shed much light on the Taíno use of Anadenanthera snuff Cohoba Cohoba is a Taíno Indian transliteration for a ceremony in which the ground seeds of the ''cojóbana'' tree (''Anadenanthera'' spp.) were inhaled, the Y-shaped nasal snuff tube used to inhale the substance, and the psychoactive drug that was inha ..., its paraphernalia and associated archaeology. Selected published works *''The Use of Anadenanthera colubrina var. Cebil by Wichi (Mataco) Shamans of the Chaco Central, Argentina.'' Yearbook for ethnomedicine and the study of consciousness 5: 41–58, with David Repke as second author. Verläg für Wissenschaft und Bildung, Berlin, (1998). *''The role of cohoba in Taíno shamanism.'' Eleusis, n.s., no. 1: 38–50, Museo Civico di Rovereto, Trento, Italy, (1998). *''Exploring t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Siebert (ethnobotanist)
Daniel J. Siebert is an ethnobotanist, pharmacognosist, and author who lives in Southern California. Siebert has studied '' Salvia divinorum'' for over twenty years and was the first person to unequivocally identify (by human bioassays in 1993) Salvinorin A as the primary psychoactive substance of ''Salvia divinorum''. In 1998, Siebert appeared in the documentary Sacred Weeds shown in the United Kingdom. He has discussed ''Salvia divinorum'' on National Public Radio, Fox News, CNN, Telemundo and his comments have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The New York Times. In 2002, Siebert wrote a letter to the United States Congress in which he objected to bill H.R. 5607 introduced by Rep. Joe Baca ( D-California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...) whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merlin Sheldrake
''Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures'' is a 2020 non-fiction book on mycology by British biologist Merlin Sheldrake. His first book, it was published by Random House on 12 May 2020. Summary The book looks at fungi from a number of angles, including decomposition, fermentation, nutrient distribution, psilocybin production, the evolutionary role fungi play in plants, and the ways in which humans relate to the fungal kingdom. It uses music and philosophy to illustrate its thesis, and introduces readers to a number of central strands of research on mycology. It is also a personal account of Sheldrake's experiences with fungi. Sheldrake is an expert in mycorrhizal fungi, holds a PhD in tropical ecology from the University of Cambridge for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and his research is primarily in the field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Evans Schultes
Richard Evans Schultes (''SHULL-tees'';Jonathan Kandell ''The New York Times'', April 13, 2001, Accessed April 26, 2020. January 12, 1915 – April 10, 2001) was an American biologist. He may be considered the father of modern ethnobotany. He is known for his studies of the uses of plants by indigenous peoples, especially the indigenous peoples of the Americas. He worked on entheogenic or Psychedelics, dissociatives and deliriants, hallucinogenic plants, particularly in Mexico and the Amazon Rainforest, Amazon, involving lifelong collaborations with chemists. He had charismatic influence as an educator at Harvard University; several of his students and colleagues went on to write popular books and assume influential positions in museums, botanical gardens, and popular culture. His book ''The Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers'' (1979), co-authored with chemist Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, is considered his greatest popular work: it has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Samorini
Giorgio Samorini (born 1957 in Bologna, Italy) is a psychedelics researcher. He has published many essays and monographs regarding the use of psychoactive A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, psychoactive agent or psychotropic drug is a chemical substance, that changes functions of the nervous system, and results in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition or behavior. Th ... compounds and sacred plants. He was a frequent contributor to, and sometime editor of ''Eleusis the Journal of Psychoactive Plants & Compounds''. Bibliography Books Animals and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness(2000). Giorgio Samorini. Park Street Press. . * Samorini G., 1995, ''Gli Allucinogeni Nel Mito. Racconti sull'origine delle piante psicoattive''. Nautilus Press, Torino. * Samorini G., 1996, ''L'erba di Carlo Erba. Per una storia della canapa indiana in Italia (1845–1948)'', Nautilus, Torino. * Samorini G., 2001, ''Funghi allucino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Salick
Jan Salick is an American botanist who researches the interaction between humans and plants ( ethnobotany) and conservation biology. Her specialisms include alpine environments, climate change, indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge. She is a past-president of the Society for Economic Botany and holds their Distinguished Economic Botanist award. She is also Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and recieved the Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration. In 2019 she retired as Senior Curator of Ethnobotany at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and now has emerita status. Education Salick gained her BA at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1973 and her MS from Duke University in 1977, both in biology. Her PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology was from Cornell University in 1983, with her dissertation, on the crop plant, cassava (''Manihot esculenta''), entitled "Agroecology of the Cassava Lacebug". Career and research Salick worked at the New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra Quave
Cassandra Leah Quave (born June 2, 1978) is an American ethnobotanist, herbarium curator, and associate professor at Emory University. Her research focuses on analyzing natural, plant-based medicine of indigenous cultures to help combat infectious disease and antibiotic resistance. In particular, she studies bacterial biofilm inhibition and quorum-sensing inhibition of botanical extracts for inflammatory skin conditions. Early life and education Childhood Born in Arcadia, Florida, Quave's interest in science and medicine began early, stemming from the extended time she spent in hospitals. At age three, congenital birth defects prompted an amputation below the knee in her right leg. After surgery, she required follow-up treatment for complications from an MRSA (Methicillin-resistant ''Staphylococcus aureus'') infection. This experience would provide the basis of her adolescent science fair project about drug resistance in ''Escherichia coli'', as well as her later research proj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Plowman
Timothy Charles Plowman (November 17, 1944 – January 7, 1989) was an ethnobotanist best known for his intensive work over the course of 15 years on the genus ''Erythroxylum'' in general, and the cultivated coca species in particular. He collected more than 700 specimens from South America, housed in the collection of the Field Museum of Natural History.http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org/collections/search.cgi?dest=erthroy Plowman joined the Field Museum of Natural History in 1978 where he became tenured in 1983 and was appointed Curator in 1988. He published more than 80 scientific papers (46 on ''Erythroxylum'') and served as editor for several scientific journals. He is one of the main subjects of ''One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest'' by Wade Davis. Both were students of Richard Evans Schultes, the father of modern ethnobotany. Plowman died of AIDS, which he contracted from pre-trip inoculations. The nightshade species '' Brunfelsia plowma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
