Using Home Gardens to Decipher Health and Healing in the Andes

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 459-482

  Finerman, Ruthbeth ^a   Sackett, Ross ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecuador; Ethnobotany; Family health; Gardens; Women healers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNOBOTANY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALING; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HOME; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICINAL PLANT; NATIVE SPECIES; ORCHARD; SOUTH AMERICA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; VIDEOTAPE;

EID: 0842308911     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2003.17.4.459     Document Type: Article

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