Author : Arthur Haines
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Medicinal plants
ISBN : 9780984294503
Ancestral Plants
Arthur Haines
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The Curanderx Toolkit
Atava Garcia Swiecicki
Author : Atava Garcia Swiecicki
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781597145718
A practical guide to understanding and using Mexican healing traditions in everyday life Arranging ofrendas. Brewing pericón into a healing tea. Releasing traumas through baños and limpias. Herbalist and curandera Atava Garcia Swiecicki spent decades gathering this traditional knowledge of curanderismo, Mexican folk healing, which had been marginalized as Chicanx and Latinx Americans assimilated to US culture. She teaches how to follow the path of the curandera, as she herself learned from apprenticing with Mexican curanderas, studying herbal texts, and listening to her ancestors. In this book readers will learn the Indigenous, African, and European roots of curanderismo. Atava also shares her personal journey as a healer and those of thirteen other inspirational curanderas serving their communities. She offers readers the tools to begin their own healing--for themselves, for their relationship with the earth, and for the people. The Curanderx Toolkit includes more than 25 profiles of native and adopted plants of Baja and Alta California and teaches you to grow, know, and love them. This book will help anyone who has lost connection with their ancestors begin to incorporate the herbal wisdom and holistic wellness of curanderismo into their lives. Take the power of ancient medicine into your own hands by learning simple herbal remedies and practicing rituals for kinship with the more-than-human world.
Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes
Jana Pesoutová
Author : Jana Pesoutová
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category :
ISBN : 9789088907647
This study focuses on current healing practices from a cultural memory perspective.
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge
Nancy J. Turner
Author : Nancy J. Turner
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series
Page : 1106 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780773543805
How knowledge of plants and environments has been applied and shared over centuries and millennia by Indigenous peoples.
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge
Nancy J. Turner
Author : Nancy J. Turner
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 1091 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0773585400
Volume 1: The History and Practice of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Volume 2: The Place and Meaning of Plants in Indigenous Cultures and Worldviews Nancy Turner has studied Indigenous peoples' knowledge of plants and environments in northwestern North America for over forty years. In Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge, she integrates her research into a two-volume ethnobotanical tour-de-force. Drawing on information shared by Indigenous botanical experts and collaborators, the ethnographic and historical record, and from linguistics, palaeobotany, archaeology, phytogeography, and other fields, Turner weaves together a complex understanding of the traditions of use and management of plant resources in this vast region. She follows Indigenous inhabitants over time and through space, showing how they actively participated in their environments, managed and cultivated valued plant resources, and maintained key habitats that supported their dynamic cultures for thousands of years, as well as how knowledge was passed on from generation to generation and from one community to another. To understand the values and perspectives that have guided Indigenous ethnobotanical knowledge and practices, Turner looks beyond the details of individual plant species and their uses to determine the overall patterns and processes of their development, application, and adaptation. Volume 1 presents a historical overview of ethnobotanical knowledge in the region before and after European contact. The ways in which Indigenous peoples used and interacted with plants - for nutrition, technologies, and medicine - are examined. Drawing connections between similarities across languages, Turner compares the names of over 250 plant species in more than fifty Indigenous languages and dialects to demonstrate the prominence of certain plants in various cultures and the sharing of goods and ideas between peoples. She also examines the effects that introduced species and colonialism had on the region's Indigenous peoples and their ecologies. Volume 2 provides a sweeping account of how Indigenous organizational systems developed to facilitate the harvesting, use, and cultivation of plants, to establish economic connections across linguistic and cultural borders, and to preserve and manage resources and habitats. Turner describes the worldviews and philosophies that emerged from the interactions between peoples and plants, and how these understandings are expressed through cultures’ stories and narratives. Finally, she explores the ways in which botanical and ecological knowledge can be and are being maintained as living, adaptive systems that promote healthy cultures, environments, and indigenous plant populations. Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge both challenges and contributes to existing knowledge of Indigenous peoples' land stewardship while preserving information that might otherwise have been lost. Providing new and captivating insights into the anthropogenic systems of northwestern North America, it will stand as an authoritative reference work and contribute to a fuller understanding of the interactions between cultures and ecological systems.
A Way to Garden
Margaret Roach
Author : Margaret Roach
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1604698772
“A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it’s a guide to living both in and out of the garden.” —The New York Times Book Review For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.
Ancestral Lines
John Barker
Author : John Barker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442601055
In Ancestral Lines, which is based on 25 years of research among the Maisin people, Barker offers a nuanced understanding of how the Maisin came to reject commercial logging on their traditional lands.
The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism
Karen M. Rose
Author : Karen M. Rose
Publisher : Fair Winds Press (MA)
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0760371792
The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism, written by leading Black herbalist Karen Rose, addresses herbalism and medicine making from the perspective of diasporic ancestral traditions.
Plants of Power
Alfred Savinelli
Author : Alfred Savinelli
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781570671302
Native American Ceremony and the Use of Sacred Plants. This comprehensive guide to the sacred plants traditionally used by Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples presents 14 significant plants, with information on their properties, growing conditions, and medicinal applications (incense cedar, red cedar, copal, juniper, lavender, mugwort, osha, pinon, white sage, desert sage, sweet grass, ceremonial tabacco, red willow bark and yerba santa). Descriptions of Native American ceremonies and rituals in which these plants play a central role are included.
Hybrid
Noel Kingsbury
Author : Noel Kingsbury
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0226437132
"Noel Kingsbury reveals that even those imaginary perfect foods are themselves far from anything that could properly be called natural, rather, they represent the end of a millennia-long history of selective breeding and hybridization. Starting his story at the birth of agriculture, Kingsbury traces the history of human attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritiousa story that owes as much to accident and error as to innovation and experiment. Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, as well as a rich trove of anecdotes, Kingsbury shows how scientists, amateur breeders, and countless anonymous farmers and gardeners slowly caused the evolutionary pressures of nature to be supplanted by those of human needs and thus led us from sparse wild grasses to succulent corn cobs, and from mealy, white wild carrots to the juicy vegetables we enjoy today. At the same time, Kingsbury reminds us that contemporary controversies over the Green Revolution and genetically modified crops are not new, plant breeding has always had a political dimension."--Publisher's description.