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Ethnobotany

Index of SIL publications on Ethnobotany listed by country.

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General works

• Bailey, Robert C. and Thomas N. Headland. 1991. "The tropical rain forest: Is it a productive environment for human foragers?."
• Boutin, Michael E. 2003. "Cassava: an annotated bibliography."  
• Parsons, Susan E. and Stewart Ware. 1982. "Edaphic factors and vegetation in Virginia Coastal Plain swamps."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Kenya

• Nicolle, Steve. 2001. "A comparative study of ethnobotanical taxonomies: Swahili and Digo."
• Nicolle, Steve. 2004. "The relevance of ethnobotanical studies in linguistic vitality: the case of plant use and classification among the Digo of Kenya."

Tanzania

• Nicolle, Steve. 2001. "A comparative study of ethnobotanical taxonomies: Swahili and Digo."

Americas

Brazil

• Fortune, Gretchen. 1990. "The importance of turtle months in the Karajá world, with a focus on ethnobiology in indigenous literary education."

Ecuador

• Arevalo V., Anibal, Roelof A. A. Oldeman and James Yost. 1976. Algunos recursos vegetales del territorio Wao (Auca).
• Davis, E. Wade and James A. Yost. 1983. "The ethnobotany of the Waorani of Eastern Ecuador."

Mexico

• Bye, Robert A., Donald H. Burgess, and Albino Mares T. 1975. "Ethnobotany of the Western Tarahumara of Chihuahua, Mexico: I. Notes on the genus Agave."
• Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1970. "Seri use of agave (century plant)."
• Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1971. "Seri use of mesquite Prosopis glandulosa var torreyana."
• Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1973. "Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) in the Gulf of California: Discovery of its nutritional value by the Seri Indians."
• Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1974. "Columnar cacti in Seri Indian culture."
• Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1974. "Seri Indian pharmacopoeia."
• Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1976. "Seri Indian food plants: Desert subsistence without agriculture."
• Felger, Richard S. and Mary B. Moser. 1985. People of the desert and sea: Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians.
• Felger, Richard S., Mary B. Moser, and Edward Moser. 1980. "Seagrasses in Seri Indian culture."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1980. "Huichol life form classification II: Plants."
• Robinson, Gerald G. and Barcimeo López C. 1999. Patrones del uso plantas medicinales entre los Amuzgos del estado de Guerrero, México.  
• Schoenhals, Louise C. 1988. A Spanish-English glossary of Mexican flora and fauna.
• Wasson, R. Gordon, George M. Cowan, Florence H. Cowan, and Willard Rhodes. 1974. María Sabina and her Mazatec mushroom velada.

Peru

• Anderson, Ronald J. 1991. "Clasificación de la flora y la fauna según los ashéninca."
• Bean, Patti. 1989. "El uso de la coca entre las mujeres de Margos."  
• Matteson, Esther. 1949. "Notas sobre etnobotánica de los indios piros."
• Rutter, Richard A., compiler. 1990. Catálogo de plantas útiles de la Amazonía Peruana.  

Asia

Nepal

• Toba, Sueyoshi. 1975. "Plant names in Khaling: a study in ethnobotany and village economy."

Pakistan

• Baart, Joan L. G., Esther L. Baart-Bremer and Muhammad Zaman Sagar. 2004. "Names of plants in Kalam Kohistani (Pakistan)."  
• Baart, Joan L.G., Esther L. Baart-Bremer and Muhammad Zaman Sagar. 2006. Report on local names and uses of plants in Kalam Kohistan.

Philippines

• Abrams, Norman. 1961. "A short list of Mansaka flora and their uses."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1981. Taxonomic disagreement in a culturally salient domain: botany versus utility in a Philippine negrito taxonomic system.
• Headland, Thomas N. 1983. "An ethnobotanical anomaly: The dearth of binomial specifics in a folk taxonomy of a Negrito hunter-gatherer society in the Philippines."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1985. "Comment (and reply) on ‘Mode of subsistence and folk biological taxonomy,’ by Cecil H. Brown."
• Headland, Thomas N. 1987. "The wild yam question: How well could independent hunter-gatherers live in a tropical rain forest ecosystem?."
• McKaughan, Howard P. and Batua A. Macaraya. 1965. "Maranao plant names."
• Sohmer, S. H. 2002. "How many trees does a forest make?."

Pacific

Australia

• Mountney, Jan and Marie Geytenbeek, compilers. 1993. Warta kutjupa-kutjupa Pirnitjarra = Different kinds of plants.

Papua New Guinea

• Close, Kevin, Ann Close, and Nabasél Gélége. 1975. "Medicinal plants of the Maprik area."
• Loving, Richard. 1976. "Use of bamboo by the Awa."