Current and Remembered Past Uses of Wild Food Plants in Saaremaa, Estonia: Changes in the Context of Unlearning Debt

Economic Botany

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 235-253

  Kalle, Raivo ^a,b   Sõukand, Renata ^a  

^a Estonian Literary Museum   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

childhood memories; Ethnobotany; folk history; food security; food shortage; wild food plants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988674898     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12231-016-9355-x     Document Type: Article

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