Contents
List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface to Second Edition: Ethnobotany-1994, Richard I. Ford
Preface, Richard I. Ford
Volney Hurt Jones, Ethnobotanist: An Appreciation, James B. Griffin
Volney Hurt Jones: Biographical Background, Karen Cowan Ford
Part I. Theoretical Issues in Ethnobotany
Introduction
Ethnobotany: Historical diversity and Synthesis, Richard I. Ford
Ethnoscience of the Sixteenth-Century Valley Zapotec, Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery
Cognitive Systems, Food Patterns, and Paleoethnobotany, Wilma Wetterstrom
Part II. Native Epistemology and Ethnobotany
Introduction
Thinking and Drinking: A Raramuri Interpretation, William L. Merrill
From the Hero's Bones: Three Aguaruna Hallucinogens and Their Uses, Michael F. Brown
Present and Future Prospects of Herbal Medicine in a Mexican Community, Ellen Messer
Part III. Principles of Resource Utilization
Introduction
Ecological Modification and Adaptation: An Ethnobotanical View of Lua' Swiddeners of Northwestern Thailand, Peter Kunstadter
The Knowledge and Use of Rain Forest Trees by the Kuikuru Indians of Central Brazil, Robert Carneiro
The Use of Manioc among the Kuikuru: Some Interpretations, Gertrude Dole
Part IV. Anthropogenic Plants and Communities
Introduction
Plant Dispersal by Native North Americans in the Canadian Subartic, M. Jean Black
The Prehistoric Use and Distribution of Maygrass in Eastern North America: Cultural Phytogeographical Implications, C. Wesley Cowan
Domestication of Sunflower and Sumpweed in Eastern North America, Richard A. Yarnell
The Economic Potential of lva Annua and Its Prehistoric Importance in the Lower Illinois Valley, Nancy B. Asch and David L. Asch
Part V. PresHistoric Economics and Paleoethnobotany
Introduction
Paleoethnobotanical Indicators of Prehistoric Environmental Disturbance: A Case Study, Paul Minnis
Archaeological Interpretation Based on Ethnobotanical Inferences in the Upper Gila Region, James E. Fitting
Paleoethnobotany in Western South America: Progress and Problems, Deborah Pearsall
Part VI. Publications of Volney H. Jones
Published Works of Volney H. Jones, compiled by Richard I. Ford