Traditional health care and food and medicinal plant use among historic Albanian migrants and italians in Lucania, Southern Italy

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

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages 204-226

  Quave, Cassandra L ^a   Pieroni, Andrea ^b  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

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