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Biodiversity conservation --- Biodiversity --- Ethnobiology --- Multiculturalism

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Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon Basin. These writings describe the dispersal of the Kayapó sub-groups and explain how with this diaspora useful biological species and natural resource management strategies also spread. However the Kayapó are threatened with extinction like many of the inhabitants of the Amazon basin. The author is adamant that it is no longer satisfactory for s

Cayapo Indians --- Ethnoecology --- Caiapo Indians --- Ibirayara Indians --- Kaiapó Indians --- Kayapo Indians --- Mẽbêngôkre Indians --- Gê Indians --- Indians of South America --- Indigenous peoples --- Human ecology --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Ethnobotany. --- Ethnobiology. --- Agriculture. --- Ecology --- Gorotire (Brazil) --- Social life and customs. --- Environmental conditions. --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Ethnobotany --- Ethnobiology --- Agriculture --- Social life and customs --- Environmental conditions --- Cayapo Indians - Ethnobotany --- Cayapo Indians - Ethnobiology --- Cayapo Indians - Agriculture --- Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Brazil - Gorotire --- Gorotire (Brazil) - Social life and customs --- Gorotire (Brazil) - Environmental conditions

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Ethnobotany. --- plantlore --- magic plants --- symbolism --- Ethnobotany --- Medicinal plants --- Plants --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Botany --- Drug plants --- Plants, Useful --- Botanical drug industry --- Botany, Medical --- Materia medica, Vegetable --- Psychotropic plants --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnobiology --- Human-plant relationships --- Religious aspects --- Folklore --- Pharmacognosy --- Esoteric sciences --- Flore. Botanic determination guides --- Folklore. --- Plants, Medicinal. --- Religion and Medicine. --- Religious aspects.

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The emergence of new infectious, chronic and drug resistant diseases have prompted scientists to look towards medicinal plants as agents for treatment and prevention. This book provides an interphase between ethnomedical and ethnobotanical approaches to new drug discovery and advances in biotechnology and molecular science that has made it increasingly feasible to transform traditional medicines into modern drugs. These novel approaches also raise new issues and the volume explores economic, ethical and policy considerations of drug development based on indigenous knowledge or traditional me

Botany --- Pharmacognosy --- Human medicine --- Pharmacognosy. --- Ethnobotany. --- Medicinal plants. --- Materia medica, Vegetable. --- Botanical drugs --- Drugs from plants --- Medicinal plants --- Phytotherapy --- Plant drugs --- Vegetable drugs --- Materia medica --- Botanical drug industry --- Botany, Medical --- Drug plants --- Plants, Useful --- Materia medica, Vegetable --- Psychotropic plants --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnobiology --- Plants --- Human-plant relationships --- Pharmacognostics --- Drugs --- Pharmacy --- Therapeutic use --- Ethnobotany --- Medicine, Traditional. --- Herbal Medicine. --- Plants, Medicinal. --- Pharmacognosie --- Ethnobotanique --- Plantes médicinales --- Phytothérapie