The so-called " father " of this discipline is Richard Evans Schultes, even though he did not actually coin the term " ethnobotany ".
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It was thought of in practical use terms for culinary and medical purposes and the ethnographic element was not studied as a modern anthropologist might approach ethnobotany today.
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He wrote a report " Food Products of the North American Indians " ( 1871 ), which was one of the pioneering works in ethnobotany.
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IX ), remains of interest not only as a pioneering work of ethnobotany but also for its insights into the natural history and folkways of the island.
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After earning his Ph . D ., Bal�e worked for the New York Botanical Garden, collecting plants for an ethnobotany project sponsored by a Noble Grant.
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To preserve Abbott's legacy and career as a botanist, the University of Hawaii established a foundation to support research on Hawaiian ethnobotany and marine botany.
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Schultes ( pronounced SHULL-tees ) was often called the father of ethnobotany, the field that studies the relationship between native cultures and their use of plants.
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Prostratin is of interest because of its unique ability to activate latent viral reservoirs, while preventing healthy cells from infection, as well as its discovery through ethnobotany.
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Later, she made an extensive study of the cytogenetics and ethnobotany of maize transposition; she is the only woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in that category.
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A related project at Miami University is one on ethnobotany, which " pairs Miami-language plant names with elders'descriptions of traditional plant-gathering techniques ."
