Table of Contents

Introduction (Andrea Pieroni and Lisa Leimar Price) Asia Europe North America The Caribbean South America Africa Chapter 1. Edible Wild Plants As Food and As Medicine: Reflections on Thirty Years of Fieldwork (Louis E. Grivetti) Introduction Genesis Three Decades of Ethnobotanical Research Reflections and Potential Research Areas Coda Chapter 2. Tibetan Foods and Medicines: Antioxidants As Mediators of High-Altitude Nutritional Physiology (Patrick L. Owen) Introduction Adaptations to Altitude Oxidative Stress and Antioxidants Tibetan High-Altitude Food Systems Tibetan Medicine Summary Chapter 3. Wild Food Plants in Farming Environments with Special Reference to Northeast Thailand, Food As Function and Medicinal, and Social Roles of Women (Lisa Leimar Price) Introduction Wild Plant Foods in the Farming Environment Women's Roles, Women's Work, and Women's Knowledge Consumption and Nutrition Overlaps: Medicinal and Functional Food Medicinal and Functional Food Wild Plants of Northeast Thailand Gathered Food Plants of Northeast Thailand with Medicinal Value Investigations of Wild Plant Foods As Functional/Medicinal Foods in Thailand Multiple Use Value, Rarity, and Privatization Conclusions Chapter 4. Functional Foods or Food Medicines? On the Consumption of Wild Plants Among Albanians and Southern Italians in Lucania

About the Author

Andrea Pieroni, PhD, is an ethnobotanist/pharmacognosist and Lecturer in Pharmacognosy at the School of Pharmacy of the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. He is also part-time associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Currently he is the scientific coordinator of a European Union-funded research project dealing with a circumMediterranean ethnobotanical study on wild and neglected plants for food and medicine. Lisa Leimar Price, PhD, is an anthropologist and associate professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow for Social Scientists in Agriculture, a Ford Foundation Fellow, and a Fulbright Fellow. Prior to joining Wageningen University, she was a senior scientist at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.