Journal Title
Title of Journal: Econ Bot
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Abbravation: Economic Botany
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Publisher
Springer-Verlag
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Authors: Robert Voeks
Publish Date: 2011/02/08
Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 100-112
Abstract
Foods of Association Biocultural Perspectives on Foods and Beverages that Mediate Sociability Etkin Nina 2009 University of Arizona Press 355 S Euclid St Suite 103 Tucson AZ 85719 http//wwwuapressarizonaedu/ 250 pp hardcover USD 5000 ISBN 9780816527779In Foods of Association the late Nina Etkin serves up a smorgasbord of topics on the social dimensions of food and beverage Drawing on examples from around the world but with an emphasis on her home turf of Nigeria and Hawai’i the author explores the past and present circumstances in which food and beverages are consumed in communal situations In the case of individual foods and drinks she provides a summary of the species reviews its precolonial social significance traces its often circuitous colonial diffusion and unravels the evolution of its present social roles Importantly as a continuance of her longterm research agenda she provides a pharmacological review of each taxon revealing its
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Other Papers In This Journal:
- P eer R eviewers
- Harvesting Effects and Population Ecology of the Buriti Palm ( Mauritia flexuosa L. f., Arecaceae) in the Jalapão Region, Central Brazil 1
- Wild Mushroom Markets in Central Mexico and a Case Study at Ozumba
- Oral History Reveals Landscape Ecology in Ecuadorian Amazonia: Time Categories and Ethnobotany among Waorani People 1
- Your Poison in My Pie—the Use of Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.) Leaves in Sakartvelo, Republic of Georgia, Caucasus, and Gollobordo, Eastern Albania
- Ta Chòrta: A Comparative Ethnobotanical-Linguistic Study of Wild Food Plants in a Graecanic Area in Calabria, Southern Italy
- Ethnobotany of Ladakh, India: Beverages, narcotics, foods
- Parallel Evolution Under Domestication and Phenotypic Differentiation of the Cultivated Subspecies of Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae)
- Contemporary Knowledge of Dye Plant Species and Natural Dye Use in Kurdish Autonomous Region, Iraq
- The Trade in and Household Use of Phoenix reclinata Palm Frond Hand Brushes on the Wild Coast, South Africa
- Distribution of Agrobiodiversity in Home Gardens along the Corrientes River, Peruvian Amazon
- Peer Reviewers
- Woody Plant Diversity in Urban Homegardens in Northern Thailand
- Book Review Editor, Daniel F. Austin
- Nationalization and Globalization Trends in the Wild Mushroom Commerce of Italy with Emphasis on Porcini ( Boletus edulis and Allied Species)
- “Made in Brazil”: Human Dispersal of the Brazil Nut ( Bertholletia excelsa , Lecythidaceae) in Ancient Amazonia 1
- Forty-five years later: The shifting dynamic of traditional ecological knowledge on Pantelleria Island, Italy
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