The Eruption of Technology in Traditional Medicine: How Social Media Guides the Sale of Natural Plant Products in the Sonoran Desert Region1

Economic Botany

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 360-369

  Semotiuk, Andrew J ^a   Semotiuk, Nancy L ^b   Ezcurra, Exequiel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Walla Walla College   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; marketing; medicinal plants; selection; social media; Sonora

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952631728     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-015-9327-6     Document Type: Article

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