Medicinal plant use by surinamese immigrants in Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Results of a pilot market survey

Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 122-144

  Van Andel, Tinde ^a   Van't Klooster, Charlotte ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Interface Demography   (Germany)

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