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“Where our women used to get the food”: Cumulative effects and loss of ethnobotanical knowledge and practice: a case study from coastal British Columbia

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Added: July 21st, 2010

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Authors review a series of case examples of culturally valued food plants in British Columbia and identify a suite of interacting social and environmental factors that have resulted in decreased use of and dwindling cultural knowledge about these plants over the past 150 years.

By Nancy J. Turner and Katherine L. Turner (46 pages).

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