The Dual Intracultural and Intercultural Relationship between Medicinal Plant Knowledge and Consensus

Economic Botany

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 303-317

  Vandebroek, Ina ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC BOTANY   (United States)

Author keywords

agreement; Amazon; Andes; Bolivia; consensus analysis; Ethnobotany; key participants; medicinal plants; traditional healers

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649915272     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-010-9135-y     Document Type: Article

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