@leontessar.bsky.socialIn Amazonian healing the main tool is song. The icaro is said to be received from a plant during a long apprenticeship, sung with mapacho smoke, a rattle or a leaf fan. Ethnographers describe them; some are not meant to be recorded.
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@pacificppleforest.bsky.social🌿 We’re pleased to share that the “#Botany and #Ethnobotany of the #MarianaIslands” project, carried out at @naturalis.bsky.social as part of #PacificPeopleForest, now has a dedicated page on the Naturalis website 👉 lnkd.in/emE2kdVH
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@leontessar.bsky.socialThe youngest of the three words was proposed in 1979 by a small group of scholars: entheogen, from Greek entheos, having the divine within. It names a use, not a chemistry. I use it mainly to report how a tradition understands its own practice.
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@botanyjournal.bsky.social📰The Four Sacred Medicines Gifted to the Nêhiyawak: Learning through the Methods of Plains Cree Science.
✒️Johnson et al.
📷cjb-2025-0112_f1
#PlainsCree #IndigenousScience #Ethnobotany
@wergend.bsky.socialDr Sara Edwards
"What can plants teach us about the relationships between culture, place, and conservation? ... explore diverse relationships between people and plants across northern Australia, NE. Brazil, South Wales, and Mount Elgon, Kenya. ..."
@gregorymoulinet.bsky.socialSYNTOPIA EPISTEME Audiobook — Chapter 8: LEMNISCATE POINT
Ayesha returns to Sumatra and find her childhood mentor Pungky tending rare orchids rescued from disappearing forests.
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#Junglelibraryproject #Sumatra #Pungky #Ethnobotany #ClimateFiction
@leontessar.bsky.socialOne detail from the anthropological record turns our model of medicine around. In many shamanic settings the healer takes the plant, not the patient, working on the sufferer's behalf. The sufferer may never touch it. Modern trials assume the reverse.
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@ina.wsocial.euWorking with friends today #ethnobotany #Jamaica #Caribbean #PeopleAndPlants #TraditionalKnowledgeSystems #HumanEcology
@ceflores.bsky.socialDiscover the roots of ancestral wisdom! 📖🌼 Explore 140 traditional Mexican medicinal plants through vivid photographs and fascinating cultural stories in this 5-volume edition. 🌱
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#Ethnobotany #MexicanHerbalism #Curanderismo
@plantspeopleplanet.bsky.socialWhen alien plants become health hazards: An applied study on toxic and allergenic risks in Italy
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
by Barone et al.
@princetonupress.bsky.socialSacred Plants of the America blends the latest findings in #anthropology & #ethnobotany with mesmerizingly detailed confocal plant microscopy to reveal the inner lives of more than 50 culturally significant species from across the Americas.
Out now!
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@botsocamerica.bsky.social🌱 Check out this new #AJB Synthesis article! 🌱
#Abortifacients in Mesoamerica & the Southwest United States: Botanical & sociocultural perspectives
By Guadalupe Maldonado Andrade
@inavandebroek.bsky.social🌿 New article by Hailegiorgis et al. in Ethnobotany and Economic Botany! In highland Ethiopia, farmers mix faba bean & field pea for productivity and quality, using the blend to prepare a popular roasted-legume stew, called shiro. #ethnobotany #agroecology #Africa
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@inavandebroek.bsky.social🌿 New article by Roos et al. in Ethnobotany and Economic Botany! Tamarind supports rural livelihoods through traditional knowledge, medicine, food & markets, but value chains face barriers. #ethnobotany
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@inavandebroek.bsky.social🌿 New article by Syamsuardi et al. in Ethnobotany and Economic Botany! The shrub Uncaria gambir remains important in Minangkabau culture in West Sumatra, linking ritual, medicine & livelihoods. #ethnobotany
See link.springer.com/article/10.1...
@inavandebroek.bsky.social🌿 New article by Caromano et al. in Ethnobotany and Economic Botany! A review identified 224 Amazonian seed & fruit bead species in 42 plant families. Findings can help identify museum objects & archaeological remains & support Indigenous knowledge #ethnobotany. See link.springer.com/article/10.1...