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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus MRW (online and print) volume covers this European Macroregion. The content focuses on the ethnobotany of wild plants in this Macroregion and it will be first developed as an online site and, later, when all of the planned topics have been covered for this specific volume, printed in a hard copy version. The online site will remain live and be available for updates until final publication (with new monographs [if not covered initially due to lack of research]).
The content is divided into sections covering countries (or groups of countries), based on plant diversity and not necessarily political or national boundaries. This volume begins with an Introduction (4,000-6,000 words) to the region, followed by discussions of each sub-region (4,000-6,000 words); and discusses 833 plant species with each monograph having a length of ~1,500 words (with references), plus 2-4 photographs. To further define the content, the plantmonographs will be divided into five major categories (food; medicine/cosmetic; veterinary; handicraft plants; and ritual/folkloric uses) and includes notes. The number of the monographs in every category will be negotiated depending on the advances of the ethnobotanical research in each specific country, or group of countries. The main criteria for the inclusion of a given plant will be its cultural salience within a given country (assessed by the editors). References are given at the end of the Introduction and each monograph.
List of contents
Preface.- 1. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions - Caucasus - The Region.- 2. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions - Caucasus - Northern Caucasus.- 3. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions - Caucasus - Georgia.- 4. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions - Caucasus - Armenia.- 5. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions - Caucasus - Azerbaijan.- 6. Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions - Caucasus - Iran.- Plant Chapters - 833 species.- Index.
About the author
Dr. Rainer W. Bussmann is an ethnobotanist and vegetation ecologist, and Co-Founder of the Institute of Botany's Department of Ethnobotany at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. Prior, he held directorship of the William L. Brown Center at the Missouri Botanical Garden, worked as research Fellow in Geography and the Environment at UT Austin, was Associate Professor of Botany and Scientific Director of the Harold Lyon Arboretum at the University of Hawaii, and was Assistant Professor at the Universitaet Bayreuth.
Dr. Bussmann's work focuses on ethnobotanical research, and the preservation of traditional knowledge, in Bolivia, Peru, the Caucasus, Africa and Levant.
Dr. Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana
Prof. Dr. Zaal Kikvidze
Summary
Ethnobotany of the Caucasus MRW (online and print) volume covers this European Macroregion. The content focuses on the ethnobotany of wild plants in this Macroregion and it will be first developed as an online site and, later, when all of the planned topics have been covered for this specific volume, printed in a hard copy version. The online site will remain live and be available for updates until final publication (with new monographs [if not covered initially due to lack of research]).
The content is divided into sections covering countries (or groups of countries), based on plant diversity and not necessarily political or national boundaries. This volume begins with an Introduction (4,000-6,000 words) to the region, followed by discussions of each sub-region (4,000-6,000 words); and discusses 833 plant species with each monograph having a length of ~1,500 words (with references), plus 2-4 photographs. To further define the content, the plantmonographs will be divided into five major categories (food; medicine/cosmetic; veterinary; handicraft plants; and ritual/folkloric uses) and includes notes. The number of the monographs in every category will be negotiated depending on the advances of the ethnobotanical research in each specific country, or group of countries. The main criteria for the inclusion of a given plant will be its
cultural salience within a given country (assessed by the editors). References are given at the end of the Introduction and each monograph.
