Messages from the Gods
A Guide to the Useful Plants of Belize
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 June 2015
- ISBN 9780199965762
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages554 pages
- Size 233x169x27 mm
- Weight 1107 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 639 color 0
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Short description:
The unrivaled and comprehensive guide to the healing plants of Belize, containing over 500 species accounts, 600 illustrations, and detailed discussion of the medicinal applications of the local plants in both traditional and modern healing.
MoreLong description:
Despite its small size, Belize is one of the most ecologically and culturally diverse nations in Central America. Over 3,400 species of plants can be found here, within a diversity of ecological habitats. Because of this, Belize is paradise for ecotourists, hosting over 900,000 visitors annually, who enjoy the natural habitat and friendly people of this nation. Many of the plants of Belize have a long history of being "useful," with properties that have served traditional herbal healers of the region as well as those who use plants as food, forage, fiber, ornament, in construction and ritual, along with many other purposes.
With Messages from the Gods: A Guide to the Useful Plants of Belize, Drs. Michael Balick and Rosita Arvigo give us the definitive resource on the many species of plants in Belize and their folklore, as well as the natural history of the region and a detailed discussion of "bush" uses of plants, including for traditional healing and life in the forest, past and present. Both Balick and Arvigo bring important perspectives to the project, Balick as ethnobotanical scientist from The New York Botanical Garden, and Arvigo as a former apprentice to a Belizean healer and an experienced physician. The book has been decades in the making, a culmination of a biodiversity research project that The New York Botanical Garden and international and local collaborators have had in motion since 1987. Drs. Balick, Arvigo and their colleagues have collected and identified thousands of plants from the region, and have worked extensively with hundreds of Belizean people, many of them herbal healers and bushmasters, to record uses for many of the species. This collaboration with local plant experts has produced a fascinating discussion of the intersection of herbal medicine and spiritual belief in the area, and these interviews are used to compliment and contextualize the numerous species accounts presented. The book is both a cultural study and a specialized field guide; information is provided on many different native and introduced plants in Belize and their traditional and contemporary uses including as food, medicine, fiber, in spiritual practices and many other purposes.
Richly illustrated with over 600 images and photographs, Messages from the Gods: A Guide to The Useful Plants of Belize will serve as the primary reference and guide to the ethnobotany of Belize for many years to come.
Over the course of more than 25 years, Michael Balick and Rosita Arvigo have forged one of the most significant partnerships in the history of ethnobotany. This splendid book, the culmination of their collaboration, will live on as the definitive text on the traditional uses of plants in Belize for generations.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction and Background
The Setting
Origins of the Belize Ethnobotany Project
Project Objectives
Traditional Healing in Belize
Methodology
Chapter 1 Figures
Chapter 2: Traditional Healers, Bushmasters and their Sacred Realm
The Discovery of Therapeutic Plants
Generalist and Specialist Healers in Belize
Culture Bound Syndrome (Culturally Specific Illness) in Belize
Preparation of Plant Medicines
The Vanishing Medicine Chest
Profile of a Traditional Healer's Practice: Don Eligio Panti
Foods as Therapies
Poisons that Heal
Psychoactive Species
Solving a Mystery- Capoche
Chapter 2 Figures
Chapter 3: Traditional Healers, Bushmasters and their Backgrounds
Juana and Antonio Cuc
Barbara Fernandez
Thomas Green
Winston Harris
Don Eligio Panti
Andrew Ramcharan
Percival Hezekiah Reynolds
Hortense Robinson
Leopoldo Romero
Beatrice Waight
Juana Xix
In Their Own Words
Thomas Green
Winston Harris
Don Eligio Panti
Percival Reynolds
Hortense Robinson
Leopoldo Romero
Beatrice Waight
The Unbroken Chain
Chapter 3 Figures
Chapter 4: Plants of Belize and their Uses in Ancient and Contemporary Times: An Ethnobotanical Compendium
Non-Flowering Plants
Ferns, Fern Allies
Gymnosperms
Figures- Fern and Fern Allies, Gymnosperms
Flowering Plants
Monocotyledons
Figures- Monocotyledons
Dicotyledons
Figures- Dicotyledons
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