People and plants in lëpushë: Traditional medicine, local foods and postcommunism in a Northern Albanian village

Ethnobotany in the New Europe: People, Health and Wild Plant Resources

Volumn 14, Issue , 2010, Pages 16-50

  Pieroni, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

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