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Aboriginal plant collectors : botanists and Australian aboriginal people in the nineteenth century

Title
Aboriginal plant collectors : botanists and Australian aboriginal people in the nineteenth century / Philip A. Clarke.
Author
Clarke, Philip (Philip A.)
Publication
Kenthurst, NSW : Rosenberg Pub., 2008.

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Description
191 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits; 30 cm
Summary
"The impact of indigenous people upon the European discovery of Australian plants." --Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Human-plant relationships > Australia
  • Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs
  • Aboriginal Australians > Food
  • Aboriginal Australians > Medicine
  • Aboriginal Australians > Ethnobotany
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on > History. > Australia
  • Botany > Australia > History
  • Botanists > Australia > History
  • Plant collecting > Australia > History
  • Plant collectors > Australia > History
  • Ethnobotany
  • Botany, Medical
  • Medicinal plants
  • Ethnobotany
  • Plants, Medicinal
  • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander > history
  • History, 19th Century
  • Indigenous knowledge - Botany
  • Food - Bush tucker
  • Settlement and contacts - Explorers - Aboriginal guides
  • Indigenous knowledge - Health and medicine
  • Plants
  • Settlement and contacts - Explorers
  • Language - Vocabulary - Plant names
  • Food - Plants
  • Gathering - Plants
  • Hunting
  • Food - Preparation - Cooking
  • Food - Preparation
  • Health - Treatments - Traditional
  • Death - Mortuary customs
  • Death - Human remains
  • Habitation - Camps
  • Medicinal plants
  • Botany, Medical
  • Aboriginal Australians > Food
  • Aboriginal Australians > Medicine
  • Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs
  • Botanists
  • Botany
  • Human-plant relationships
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on
  • Plant collecting
  • Plant collectors
  • Iwi taketake
  • homme (être humain) > influence exercée > nature > Australie
  • homme (être humain) > plante > Australie
  • Aborigène australien (peuple) > médecine populaire
  • Aborigène australien (peuple) > plante alimentaire
  • Aborigène australien (peuple) > moeurs et coutumes > plante
  • Australia > ethnology
  • Australia
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-179) and indexes.
Contents
Early explorers and aboriginal guides -- Settlers and Australian plants -- Making plant names -- George Caley in New South Wales -- Allan Cunningham and the mapping of Australia -- Resident plant collectors and aboriginal people -- Leichhardt and the riddle of inland Australia -- Von Mueller and Australian botany -- Inland explorers and aboriginal knowledge --The study of aboriginal plant use.
ISBN
  • 9781877058684
  • 1877058688
LCCN
2008411855
OCLC
  • ocn181068577
  • 181068577
  • SCSB-1475884
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library