Wild Harvest in the Heartland: Ethnobotany in Missouri's Little Dixie

by Justin Nolan

This work is a detailed study of people and plants in Little Dixie, a seven-county region of central Missouri. Based on three summers of field research, Professor Nolan combines ethnoscience with folklore to document what and why people know about wild plants in this little-known section of the American Midwest. The book is organized around the cognitive and behavioral differences between local experts and 'novices' who gather wild plant foods and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761836535
• ISBN13: 9780761836537
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 8.8"