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Ethnobotany Books
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Native American Ethnobotany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.69 — 162 ratings — published 1998
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,938 ratings — published 1992
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.50 — 177,684 ratings — published 2013
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,456 ratings — published 1979
Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.20 — 133 ratings — published 1996
Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,070 ratings — published 1993
One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,755 ratings — published 1996
Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.38 — 55 ratings — published 1995
Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.55 — 831 ratings — published 1994
Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.41 — 423 ratings — published 2021
The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,460 ratings — published 1985
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.58 — 537 ratings — published 2005
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,743 ratings — published 2001
Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants, Potions, & Herbcraft (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.63 — 381 ratings — published 2001
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.17 — 7,616 ratings — published 1998
The Yage Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,153 ratings — published 1963
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.70 — 366 ratings — published 1998
Pharmako/Gnosis (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.62 — 432 ratings — published 1999
True Hallucinations (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,798 ratings — published 1993
This Is Your Mind on Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,234 ratings — published 2021
Gathering the Desert (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.30 — 152 ratings — published 1985
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 3.90 — 76,336 ratings — published 1956
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,057 ratings — published 2022
Plants, People, and Places: The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights in Canada and Beyond (Volume 96) (McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.57 — 23 ratings — published
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.32 — 52,365 ratings — published 2020
Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.39 — 677 ratings — published 1994
Native American Medicinal Plants: An Ethnobotanical Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.40 — 68 ratings — published 2009
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 3.82 — 11,199 ratings — published 2009
Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.10 — 122 ratings — published 1989
Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples (Royal BC Museum Handbook)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.40 — 62 ratings — published 1995
Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.21 — 201 ratings — published 1998
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.38 — 21,365 ratings — published 2003
Ethnobotany (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 2000
Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition: An Ethnobotany of Britain & Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 3.90 — 21 ratings — published 2004
The Healing Forest: Medicinal and Toxic Plants of the Northwest Amazonia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.56 — 9 ratings — published 1990
Plant Technology of First Peoples in British Columbia (Royal British Columbia Museum Handbook)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.55 — 33 ratings — published 1996
The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens & the I Ching (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,455 ratings — published 1975
The Archaic Revival (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,329 ratings — published 1992
Plants, Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology (Epistemologies of Healing, 6)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2010
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,355 ratings — published 2024
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 3.91 — 125 ratings — published 2009
Plant Spirit Medicine: The Healing Power of Plants (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.26 — 864 ratings — published 1991
The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.12 — 683 ratings — published 2021
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,188 ratings — published 2021
Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,605 ratings — published 1990
Tihkal: The Continuation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,223 ratings — published 1997
Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.52 — 871 ratings — published 1993
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.49 — 657 ratings — published 1996
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.27 — 85,187 ratings — published 2018
Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnobotany)
avg rating 4.62 — 16 ratings — published 2003
“Ethnobotanists know that the more names a plant has, the greater its cultural importance.”
― The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
― The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
“If the Sun is the source of flow in the economy of nature, what is the “Sun” of a human gift economy, the source that consonantly replenishes the flow of gifts? Maybe it is love.”
― The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
― The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World











