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List Of Ethnobotanists
This is a list of Ethnobotany, ethnobotanists. * Isabella Abbott * Robert Bye * Michael Jeffrey Balick * Frank C. Cook IV * Paul Alan Cox * Wade Davis (anthropologist), Wade Davis * James A. Duke * Nina Etkin * Maria Fadiman * Norman Farnsworth * Erna Gunther * Kathleen Harrison * John William Harshberger * Charles Bixler Heiser * Dennis McKenna * Terence McKenna * Gary Paul Nabhan * Jonathan Ott * Keewaydinoquay Peschel * Luigi Piacenza * Andrea Pieroni * Mark Plotkin * Timothy Plowman * Cassandra Quave, Cassandra L. Quave * Jan Salick * Giorgio Samorini * Richard Evans Schultes *Merlin Sheldrake * Daniel Siebert (ethnobotanist), Daniel Siebert * Constantino Manuel Torres * Nancy Turner * Ina Vandebroek * Gustav Vilbaste * R. Gordon Wasson * Ulrich Willerding * Arthur Whistler * James Wong (ethnobotanist), James Wong * Douglas E. Yen See also * Ethnobotany {{DEFAULTSORT:Ethnobotanists Ethnobotanists, Lists of people by occupation, Ethnobotanists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnobotany
Ethnobotany is an interdisciplinary field at the interface of natural and social sciences that studies the relationships between humans and plants. It focuses on traditional knowledge of how plants are used, managed, and perceived in human societies. Ethnobotany integrates knowledge from botany, anthropology, ecology, and chemistry to study plant-related customs across cultures. Researchers in this field document and analyze how different societies use local flora for various purposes, including medicine, food, religious use, intoxicants, building materials, fuels and clothing. Richard Evans Schultes, often referred to as the "father of ethnobotany", provided an early definition of the discipline: Since Schultes' time, ethnobotany has evolved from primarily documenting traditional plant knowledge to applying this information in modern contexts, particularly in pharmaceutical development. The field now addresses complex issues such as intellectual property rights and equitab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Paul Nabhan
Gary Paul Nabhan (born 1952) is an agricultural ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the plants and cultures of the desert Southwest. He is considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement. Background Nabhan is the grandson of Lebanese and Syrian refugees. He was raised in Gary, Indiana. He excelled in high school which gave him the opportunity to attend Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa for 18 months. He then transferred to Prescott College in Arizona, earning a B.A. in Environmental Biology in 1974, and has remained in-state ever since. He has an M.S. in plant sciences (horticulture) from the University of Arizona (1978), and a Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary arid lands resource sciences also at the University of Arizona ("Papago Fields: Arid Lands Ethnobotany and Agricultural Ecology", 1983). During this time he started working with, and learning from, the Tohono O'odh ... [...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 ''Anadenanthera'' is a genus of South American trees in the Legume family, Fabaceae. The genus contains two species, ''Anadenanthera colubrina, A. colubrina'' and ''Anadenanthera peregrina, A. peregrina''. These trees are known to the western wor ... snuff Cohoba, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Siebert (ethnobotanist)
Daniel J. Siebert was an ethnobotanist, pharmacognosist, and author who lived in Southern California. Siebert had 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 had 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 United States House of Representatives, Rep. Joe Baca (Democratic Party (United States), D-California) which sought to place ''Salvia divinorum'' in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. References External linksSalvia divinorum Research and Information Center (archived; the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake (born 1987) is a British mycologist and writer known for his work on mycorrhiza. Early life and education Merlin Sheldrake was born in 1987 in London to Rupert Sheldrake, an English author and parapsychology researcher, and Jill Purce, a therapist. He grew up near Hampstead Heath in London. His brother, Cosmo Sheldrake, is a musician. As a teenager, Sheldrake was influenced by Paul Stamets, a self-taught "fungal evangelist," and Karl von Frisch's book ''Animal Architecture''. Sheldrake received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge in biological sciences, where he also earned a master's degree in the history and philosophy of science and later a PhD in tropical ecology. He studied underground fungal networks in Panama's tropical forests as a predoctoral research fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Career In 2020, Sheldrake published his first book, '' Entangled Life'', which was a bestseller in both ''The Sunday Times' ... [...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, considered to be 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 hallucinogenic plants, particularly in Mexico and the 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 never been out of print and was revised into an expanded secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Samorini
Giorgio Samorini (born 1957 in Bologna, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...) is a psychedelics researcher. He has published many essays and monographs regarding the use of psychoactive 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 alluci ... [...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 received 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 York ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Plowman
Timothy Charles Plowman (November 17, 1944 – January 7, 1989) was an American 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. 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 plowmaniana'' is named after him, as also is the monotypic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Plotkin
Mark J. Plotkin (born May 21, 1955) is an ethnobotanist and a plant explorer in the Neotropics, where he is an expert on rainforest ecosystems. Plotkin is an advocate for tropical rainforest conservation and host of the ''Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation'' podcast. Background and career After attending Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Plotkin worked at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology when he joined an expedition searching for an elusive crocodilian species in 1978 and was galvanized into returning to education. He completed his bachelor of liberal arts degree at Harvard University's Harvard Extension School, his master's degree in forestry at Yale School of Forestry, and his Ph.D. at Tufts University; during which he completed a handbook for the Tiriyó people of Suriname detailing their own medicinal plants—the only other book printed in Tiriyó language being the Bible. He went on to do research at Harvard un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Pieroni
Andrea Pieroni (born 1967) is a professor of ethnobotany and ethnobiology at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, Italy, of which he was rector until 2021. Biography Pieroni took a masters in pharmacy from the University of Pisa in 1993, and a doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1998. He was a research assistant at the University of London from 2000 to 2003, and lectured at the University of Bradford from then until 2009. He became an associate professor of ethnobotany at the University of Gastronomic Sciences from January 2009, and was made a full professor in 2016; he was rector from 2017 to 2021. Between 2008 and 2010 he was vice-president and president of the International Society of Ethnobiology. He was the founding editor of the "Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine" . He is a honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania The Academy of Sciences of Albania (), founded in 1972, is the most important scientific institution in Alba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
