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Mushrooms, Vegetable Materia medica, Folklore, Therapeutic use, Ethnobotany, FungiShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Conspectus of world ethnomycology: fungi in ceremonies, crafts, diets, medicines, and myths
2011, American Phytopathological Society
in English
089054395X 9780890543955
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Table of Contents
The Present Scope of Ethnomycology: From Entheogens to Biotechnology ; Tradition and change ; In Wasson's footsteps (sort of) ; Documentation and conservation of fungal germplasm ; Food and nutrition ; Folk medicine and medicinal mushrooms ; Ethical and legal issues
Ethnomycological Knowledge in the Premodern Western Tradition: The Herb-wives of Reformation Europe as Midwives to the Birth of Mycology ; Archives and archetypes ; Herb-women, root-women, wise-women, and witches ; The market-women of Europe ; Ethnobotanical and ethnomycological studies ; Carolus Clusius, Franciscus van Sterbeeck, and the beginnings of mycology ; Some important caveats ; Women and mycology in the Enlightenment and beyond
Europe and the Mediterranean ; Mycophilia and mycophobia ; Magic and folklore ; Edible fungi ; Medicinal uses ; Miscellaneous uses
Asia and the Pacific ; Asian and Pacific ethnomycology sensu Wasson ; Fungi in myths and folklore of Asia and Oceania ; Indigenous uses of fungi for food, medicine, and crafts in Asia and Oceania ; Asian use of fungi for fermented foods
Sub-Saharan Africa ; Psychoactive fungi ; Fungi in myths and folklore ; Culinary and medicinal uses of fungi
Latin America and the Caribbean ; Ethnographic studies on psychoactive species ; Mythology and folklore ; Culinary and medicinal uses, emphasizing commercial harvest of wild mushrooms and cultivation by farmers
North America ; Folklore and mythology, with emphasis on Native Americans ; Fungi as food, medicine, craft supplies, or other uses, with emphasis on Native Americans ; Fungi commercially harvested from the wild or recently cultivated for profit.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-121) and index.
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