1672 JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
New-Englands rarities discovered: in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores…
The first detailed account of the natural history and botany of North America, including the first extensive study of native North American medicine.
GMN 1826.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2138
1935 CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978); UNDERHILL, Ruth Murray (1883 – 1984)
The ethnobiology of the Papago Indians. Ethnological Studies in the American Southwest II.
"The Tohono O’odham ... are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. Tohono O’odham means "Desert People." The federally recogniz…
GMN 9303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11485
1936 CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978); OPLER, Morris Edward (1907 – 1996)
The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).
GMN 9304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11486
1983 DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
Preparation of the Haitian zombi poison.
According to popular accounts, zombies are innocent victims, raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent Voodoo priests (bokors), and forced to toil indefinitely as slaves. Davis traced the material ba…
GMN 9313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11495
1988 DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.
GMN 8791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10969
1992 BERLIN, Brent (1936 – )
Ethnobiological classification: Principles of categorization of plants and animals in traditional societies.
GMN 9300 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11482
1993 ELLEN, Roy Frank (1947 – )
The cultural relations of classification: An analysis of Nuaulu animal categories from central Seram.
The Nuaulu or Naulu are a tribe located in Seram, Maluku, Indonesia.
GMN 9301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11483
1996 BERLIN, Brent (1936 – ); BERLIN, Elois Ann
Medical ethnobiology of the highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.
GMN 9299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11481
2000 MINNIS, Paul E. (1951 – ); ELISENS, Wayne J. (1948 – )
Biodiversity and native America. Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens.
GMN 9322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11504