Traveling Cultures and Plants

Andrea Pieroni is a Lecturer in Pharmacognosy, Herbal / Traditional Medicines and Ethnopharmacy at the School of Pharmacy at the University of Bradford, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Pharmacy from the University of Bonn. His recent research concerns transcultural health and pharmacy, traditional medicines and ethnobotany. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the new Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine and the coordinator of the first collaborative ethnobotanical research project funded by the EU Commission (RUBIA). Ina Vandebroek is a post-doctoral research associate at the Institute of Economic Botany, New York Botanical Garden, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in neurospychopharmacology from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and has conducted research into the ethnobotany and ethnomedicine of traditional healers in the Bolivian Andes and Amazon. The project she is currently working on at the New York Botanical Gardens is funded by the National Institutes of Health and involves the dynamics of medicinal plant knowledge and use by Dominican immigrants in New York City.

• List of Tables and FiguresIntroductionChapter 1. Medicinal Plants and Cultural Variation across Dominican Rural, Urban, and Transnational LandscapesAndreana L. Ososki, Michael J. Balick, and Douglas C. DalyChapter 2. Use of Medicinal Plants by Dominican Immigrants in New York City for the Treatment of Common Health Conditions: A Comparative Analysis with Literature Data from the Dominican RepublicIna Vandebroek, Michael J. Balick, Jolene Yukes, Levenia Durán, Fredi Kronenberg, Christine Wade, Andreana L. Ososki, Linda Cushman, Rafael Lantigua, Miriam Mejía and Lionel RobineauChapter 3. Between Bellyaches and Lucky Charms: Revealing Latinos' Plant-Healing Knowledge and Practices in New York CityAnahí ViladrichChapter 4. The Changing Scene of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Strategies Due to Migration of Indians from the Asian Subcontinent to the United StatesUsha R. PalaniswamyChapter 5. Use of Traditional Herbal Remedies by Thai Immigrant Women in SwedenPranee C. LundbergChapter 6. Medicinal Plant Use by Surinamese Immigrants in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Results of a Pilot Market SurveyTinde van Andel and Charlotte van 't KloosterChapter 7. The Use of Home Remedies for Health Care and Well-Being by Spanish-Speaking Latino Immigrants in London: A Reflection on AcculturationMelissa Ceuterick, Ina Vandebroek, Bren Torry and Andrea PieroniChapter 8. Hackney's "Ethnic Economy" Revisited: Local Food Culture, Ethnic "Purity", and the Politico-Historical Articulation of Kurdish IdentitySarah KeelerChapter 9. A Strange Drug in a Strange LandNeil CarrierChapter 10. Traditional Health Care and Food and Medicinal Plant Use Among Historic Albanian Migrants and Italians in Lucania, Southern ItalyCassandra L. Quave and Andrea PieroniChapter 11. Plant Knowledge as Indicator of Historical Cultural Contacts: Tanning in the Atlantic FringeIngvar SvanbergChapter 12. Procurement of Traditional Remedies and Transmission of Medicinal Knowledge among Sahrawi People Displaced in Southwestern Algerian Refugee CampsGabriele Volpato, Abdalahe Ahmadi Emhamed, Saleh Mohamed Lamin Saleh, Alessandro Broglia, and Sara di LelloNotes on ContributorsIndex

"I was enthusiastic at the prospect of reviewing Traveling Cultures and Plants...and my enthusiasm was amply rewarded. Although exploring the well worn theme of traditional medicine and plant pharmacopoeias, this volume navigates away from 'indigenous' cultures and 'native' floras into the virtually unexplored terrain of diaspora healing andethnobotany... this book represents a noteworthy contribution to an area of emerging interest." · Economic Botany