Uses and Abuses of Plant-derived Smoke - Its Ethnobotany As Hallucinogen, Perfume, Incense, and Medicine

Zusatztext This book is quite entertaining with its rich provision of surprising details. Informationen zum Autor Marcello Pennacchio is a medical botanists with over ten years of experience in research and teaching in this area. He has published approximately 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, including a comprehensive review of plants that produce cardioactive agents. Lara V. Jefferson, is a restoration ecologist. She too has written scholarly journal articles and has presented her work at various conferences all over the world. Her main research interests are invasive plant species and using smoke to promote seed germination. She is currently the manager for environmental approvals with an Australian mining company. Kayri Havens, is the Medard and Elizabeth Welch Director of the Division for Plant Biology and Conservation at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Dr Havens has also written scholarly journal articles and recently co-authored and co-edited a book on conservation, titled Ex-situ Plant Conservation (Island Press). Klappentext The Uses and Abuses of Plant -Derived Smoke is a global compendium of the ethnobotanical uses for plant-derived smoke. It provides information on the medicinal, religious, recreational and other uses of smoke derived from over 1,400 species of plants. Zusammenfassung The Uses and Abuses of Plant -Derived Smoke is a global compendium of the ethnobotanical uses for plant-derived smoke. It provides information on the medicinal, religious, recreational and other uses of smoke derived from over 1,400 species of plants.

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• Authors: Kayri Havens, Havens Kayri, Lara Jefferson, Jefferson Lara, Marcello Pennacchio, Marcello/ Jefferson Pennacchio, Pennacchio Marcello
• Assisted by: David Sollenberger (Illustration), Sollenberger David (Illustration)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.2010
• EAN: 9780195370010
• ISBN: 978-0-19-537001-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Plants / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Conservation of the environment, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Human biology, Botany & plant sciences, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Botany and plant sciences, Medical Anthropology