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Soil, Seeds, and Roses: Plantation Afterlives in an Argentine Soybean Frontier 土壤、种子和玫瑰：阿根廷大豆前沿种植园的余生

Journal of Ethnobiology Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.1177/02780771241232293

Tamar Blickstein

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Quantitative Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Species With Dermatological Relevance Used in Traditional Mayan Medicine 玛雅传统医学中与皮肤病有关的药用物种的定量民族植物学研究

Journal of Ethnobiology Pub Date : 2024-02-11 DOI: 10.1177/02780771241230809

Zurisadai Escobar-Chan, G. C. Fernández-Concha, Cecilia Mónica Rodríguez-García, Elizabeth Ortiz-Vázquez, S. Peraza-Sánchez, B. M. Vera-Ku

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Quantitative Ethnobotanical Study of Medicinal Species With Dermatological Relevance Used in Traditional Mayan Medicine 玛雅传统医学中与皮肤病有关的药用物种的定量民族植物学研究

Journal of Ethnobiology Pub Date : 2024-02-11 DOI: 10.1177/02780771241230809

Zurisadai Escobar-Chan, G. C. Fernández-Concha, Cecilia Mónica Rodríguez-García, Elizabeth Ortiz-Vázquez, S. Peraza-Sánchez, B. M. Vera-Ku

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Introduction to Special Collection: Plant-Anthropo-Genesis: The Co-Production of Plant–People Lifeworlds 特藏简介：植物-人类-创世纪：植物与人类生活世界的共同生成

Journal of Ethnobiology Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1177/02780771241228068

Andrew Flachs, Cristiana Bastos, Deborah Heath, Sita Venkateswar

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Plantations Beyond Monocrops: Cannabis Ecologies From Colonial Angola to São Tomé 超越单一作物的种植园：从殖民时期的安哥拉到圣多美的大麻生态

Journal of Ethnobiology Pub Date : 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.1177/02780771231222335

Marta Macedo

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Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i 植物与人的亲密关系：甘蔗、菠萝和夏威夷的移民记忆

Journal of Ethnobiology Pub Date : 2024-01-10 DOI: 10.1177/02780771231221643

Cristiana Bastos

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Acorn (Quercus spp.) Consumption in Algeria 阿尔及利亚的橡子（柞树属）消费量

Journal of Ethnobiology Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.1177/02780771231223446

Yacine Torche

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