Ethnobotany Videos

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The following media modules have been developed to be used as elements of courses, laboratory exercises, and individual training in ethnobotany theory, methods, history and hypotheses. These are produced as episode units covering one topic. In many cases several episodes should be linked to form a cohesive discussion of a topic and because of this the order in which they are viewed may be important.

Modules for published articles, economically important plants, cultural pracitioners, and scientists are also available.

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Introductory


Introduction to Ethnobotany

Oli


Biogeography: Migrations of People and Plants

  Canoe Plants: Five Pacific Trees

Evolution of Pacific Cultures

Guns, Germs and Steel

Transported Landscapes


Botany


Hawaiian Housing Materials

Taxonomy

What makes Plants Waterproof?

Why are Plants Useful to Us?


Food, Nutrition and Agriculture


Alcoholic Beverages

Crops in Pacific Island Cultures

Cultural Diaspora and Culinary Ethnobotanical Knowledge
  Foraging 

Limu (Algae)

Marungai

Origins of Agriculture

Pacific Crops: Lapita Toolkits

Spices and Herbs

Stimulating Beverages

The Meaning of Food: Kalo in Hawai'i

The Meaning of Food: Saying Goodbye - Fa'a Samoa

Wild Plant Foods

World Food Crops


Health Care


Chinese Medicine

Entering Another World

Hawaiian Health Care

Herbal Remedies

Illness and Medicine in Cultural Settings

Making Sense of Plant Medicines

Medicinal Plants in the Hidden Land of Dolpo Nepal

Polynesian Health Care

Polynesian Herbal Medicine

Psychoactive Plants I

Psychoactive Plants II

Rotuman Health Care


Material Culture and Arts


Architecture and Historic Buildings

Carving a Future: 10 Lessons for Sustainable Woodcarving Enterprises

Cordage

Felted Bark: Kapa (Tapa)
  Hula Plants

`ie Toga: The Samoan Fine Mat

Kuo Hina E Hiapo: The Mulberry is White and Ready for Harvest

Making Music with Plants

Na Mea Kaua Hawai'i

Recollections of a Family Tradition: Bird Catching

Shelter and Cultural Identification with Nature


Philosophy and Plants


Buddhism and Plants

Christianity and Plants

Ethics

Origins of Plant Uses


Resource Use and Conservation

  Bunchy Top

Ethnobotany and Conservation in Africa

Ethnobotany and Conservation in Micronesia

Ethnoecology and Conservation

Home Gardens

'awa and Conservation in Botanical Gardens

Medicinal Plants and Conservation


Research Methods


Activity Patterns

Boundary Mapping

Canopy Measurements

Collection Permits and Permission

Data Coding and Data Exchange

Dietary Surveys

Field Phytochemistry

Forest Valuation Mesurements

Free-listing

Group Interviews

Growth and Yield Analyses

Home Garden Analysis

Househould and Community Economies

Household Mapping

Informant Consensus

Informant Selection

Informed Consent and Human Subjects

Intellectual Property Right Recognition

Interview Techniques

Location Determination

Market Surveys

Micro-environments

Notes, Notebooks and Databases

Opinion Sampling

Participant Observation Methods

Phenology Analysis

Plant Biomass Analysis

Plant Life Forms

Plant Size and Fequency Analysis

Plant Voucher Specimens

Questionnaires

Rapid Vulnerability Assessment

Remote Sensing

Resource Distribution Mapping

Spacial Distribution Analysis

Species Density

Sustainability Assessments

Time Allocation

Use Value Measurements

Vegetation Analysis


Segues to Science


Biochemistry of Spices

Biogeography of Grasses with Edible Seeds

Chemistry of Baking a Cake

Microbiology of AlcoholicBeverage Production

Pharmacology of Medicinal Plants

Physics of an Hawaiian Imu

Why Plants are Useful: Taking Advantage of Plant Anatomy Characteristic
 

Presentations

 

 

Ethnobotany of Pohnpei Book Release:

Mike Balick: Ethnobotanical Studies of Pohnpei

David Lorence: Plant Diversity of Pohnpei

Kenneth Rehg: Linguistic Perspectives on Biocultural Diversity