Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve

by Elizabeth Olson

Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve provides an ethnographic account of the Nahua, a group of indigenous people living in a protected area in west central Mexico. The study moves back and forth between the macro and micro to explore the relationships between three central axes--health, livelihood and cultural knowledge. This anthropological study presents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739176633
• ISBN13: 9780739176634
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"