Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline

by Richard Evans Schultes, Siri von Reis

Published on the 100th anniversary of the science of ethnobotany, this volume provides a comprehensive summary of the history and current state of the field. The 36 articles present a truly global perspective on the theory and practice of today's ethnobotany.

This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.

Genres: Plants, Science, Anthropology, Nonfiction, Occult

416 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 1995

About the author

Richard Evans Schultes (SHULL-tees) (January 12, 1915 – April 10, 2001) may be considered the father of modern ethnobotany, for his studies of indigenous peoples' (especially the indigenous peoples of the Americas) uses of plants, including especially entheogenic or hallucinogenic plants (particularly in Mexico and the Amazon), for his lifelong collaborations with chemists, and for his charismatic influence as an educator at Harvard University on a number of students and colleagues who went on to write popular books and assume influential positions in museums, botanical gardens, and popular culture.

His book The Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (1979), co-authored with chemist Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, is considered his greatest popular work: it has never been out of print and was revised into an expanded second edition, based on a German translation by Christian Rätsch (1998), in 2001.[1]

Reviews

[Nosheenlatif · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't open this books .... it's to hard to study this one

[Lanny · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is by Schultes and co-authored by Reis. Schultes
is the father of Ethnobotany, and is the man Burroughs met
at Harvard who got him interested in Yage'. Schultes and several other early pioneers did some of the harshest hallucinogens in the world, didn't bat an eye-lash and wrote hundreds of books and articles. Burroughs did maybe 3 Yage' rides and was done it being wildly unpleasant. Schultes discovered more species of Plants alone than almost any other Botanist in history. He is a towering figure with a constitution of steel. One of the unsung great minds of the century!