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Ethnobotany

Index of SIL publications on Ethnobotany listed by country.

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General works

• BAILEY, Robert C.; HEADLAND, Thomas N., authors. 1991. "The tropical rain forest: Is it a productive environment for human foragers?."
• BOUTIN, Michael E., author. 2003. Cassava: an annotated bibliography.  
• PARSONS, Susan E.; WARE, Stewart, authors. 1982. "Edaphic factors and vegetation in Virginia Coastal Plain swamps."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Kenya

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

Tanzania

• NICOLLE, Steve, author. 2001. A comparative study of ethnobotanical taxonomies: Swahili and Digo.

Americas

Brazil

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

Ecuador

• AREVALO V., Anibal; OLDEMAN, Roelof A. A.; YOST, James A., authors. 1976. Algunos recursos vegetales del territorio Wao (Auca).
• DAVIS, E. Wade; YOST, James A., authors. 1983. "The ethnobotany of the Waorani of Eastern Ecuador."

Mexico

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

Peru

• ANDERSON, Ronald J., author. 1991. "Clasificación de la flora y la fauna según los ashéninca."
• BEAN, Patti, author. 1989. "El uso de la coca entre las mujeres de Margos."  
• MATTESON, Esther, author. 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, author. 1975. "Plant names in Khaling: a study in ethnobotany and village economy."

Pakistan

• BAART, Joan L. G.; BAART-BREMER, Esther L.; SAGAR, Muhammad Zaman, authors. 2004. Names of plants in Kalam Kohistani (Pakistan).  
• BAART, Joan L. G.; BAART-BREMER, Esther L.; SAGAR, Muhammad Zaman, authors. 2006. Report on local names and uses of plants in Kalam Kohistan.

Philippines

• ABRAMS, Norman, author. 1961. "A short list of Mansaka flora and their uses."
• AL-MACARAYA, Batua; MCKAUGHAN, Howard P., authors. 1965. "Maranao plant names."
• HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1981. Taxonomic disagreement in a culturally salient domain: botany versus utility in a Philippine negrito taxonomic system.
• HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 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., author. 1985. "Comment (and reply) on ‘Mode of subsistence and folk biological taxonomy,’ by Cecil H. Brown."
• HEADLAND, Thomas N., author. 1987. "The wild yam question: How well could independent hunter-gatherers live in a tropical rain forest ecosystem?."
• SOHMER, S. H., author. 2002. "How many trees does a forest make?."

Pacific

Australia

• BLACKMAN, Marie; MOUNTNEY, Jan, compilers; GLASS, Amee; HACKETT, Dorothy, editors. 1993. Warta kutjupa-kutjupa Pirnitjarra = Different kinds of plants.

Papua New Guinea

• CLOSE, Ann; CLOSE, Kevin; GÉLÉGE, Nabasél, authors. 1975. "Medicinal plants of the Maprik area."
• LOVING, Richard, author. 1976. "Use of bamboo by the Awa."