Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/All the Land's Surface is Medicine - Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska

"In this book, close to one hundred men and women from all over southwest Alaska share knowledge of their homeland and the plants that grow there. They speak eloquently about time spent gathering and storing plants and plant material during snow-free months, including gathering greens during spring, picking berries each summer, harvesting tubers from the caches of tundra voles, and gathering a variety of medicinal plants. The book is intended as a guide to the identification and use of edible and medicinal plants in southwest Alaska, but also as an enduring record of what Yup'ik men and women know and value about plants and the roles plants continue to play in Yup'ik lives"--

About the author

Ann Fienup-Riordan has lived and worked in Alaska since 1973. She has written and edited more than twenty books on Yup'ik history and oral traditions.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Fienup-Riordan, Anthropologist Ann (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) Fienup-Riordan
• Publisher: University Of Alaska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781602234222
• ISBN: 978-1-60223-422-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 251 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 885 g
• Series: Snowy Owl
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Holistic medicine; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works