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Ethnobotany: Chilies, Cacao and Vanilla

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Ethnobotany: Introductory Reading List
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/scihort/eblinks/ethnobook.html

Ethnobotany Dissertations and Theses Done at UCR
http://maya.ucr.edu/pril/ethnobotany/theses.html

 

Vanilla flower courtesy of Pesach Lubinsky	Vanilla plantation courtesy of Pesach Lubinsky	Vanilla bean courtesy of Pesach Lubinsky
Cacao tree	Cacao	Cacao pod

Chilies courtesy of Araceli Aguilar Melendez	Chilies courtesy of Araceli Aguilar Melendez
Chilies courtesy of Araceli Aguilar Melendez	Chilies courtesy of Araceli Aguilar Melendez

	The chile chronicles : tales of a New Mexico harvest ; Carmella Padilla Santa Fe, N.M. : Museum of New Mexico Press, c1997. SB307.P4 P34 1997
	Chilies to chocolate : food the Americas gave the world Edited by Nelson Foster & Linda S. Cordell.  Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1992. SB176.A48 C45 1992
	Coffee, cocoa and tea K. Willson.  New York : CAB International, 1999. SB265 .W55 1999
	A field guide to Western medicinal plants and herbs Steven Foster and Christopher Hobbs.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002. QK99.U6 F684 2002
	Food plants of the world : an illustrated guide Ben-Erik Van Wyk Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2005 QK98.5.A1 V36 2005
	Hot peppers : the story of Cajuns and Capsicum Richard Schweid.  Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1999. SB307.P4 S38 1999
	A Pueblo divided : business, property, and community in Papantla, Mexico Emilio Kourí HD330.P36 K68 2004
	Spice crops ; E.A. Weiss.  Wallingford, UK ; New York : CABI Pub., c2002. SB305 .W45 2002
	Vanilla : the cultural history of the world's most popular flavor and fragrance Patricia Rain SB307.V2 R25 2004
	Vanilla : travels in search of the ice cream orchid Tim Ecott.  New York : Grove Press, 2004. SB307.V2 E36 2004

• Del cacao al chocolate / Ana M. de Benítez. 
  México : Clío, 1998.
  TX767.C5 D46 1998
• El chile y otros picantes
  Arturo Lomelí. 
  México : Editorial Prometeo Libre, 1987.
  SB307.P4 L65 1987
• La cocina del chile / recetas y presentación de platillos Patricia van Rhijn  
  México D.F. : Colonia Florida, Editorial Planeta Mexicana, c2003.
  TX803.P46 R45 2003
• Los Coras: plantas alimentarias y medicinales de su ambiente natural : Tupitse kubeikita tutishua titiwatari = Plantas silvestres que curan y Tupitse kubeikita tutishua tutikuiri = Plantas silvestres que se comen
  Montserrat Gispert Cruells, Hugo Rodríguez González. 
  México, D.F. : CONACULTA Culturas Populares, 1998.
  QK98.5.M6 G57 1998
• Etnobotánica de los Huaorani de Quehueiri-Ono, Napo-Ecuador
  Carlos Eduardo Cerón M. & Consuelo Montalvo Ayala
  Quito : Abya-Yala, 1998.
  F3722.1.H83 C47 1998
• Ethnobotany in the neotropics : proceedings
  edited by G.T. Prance & J.A. Kallunki. 
  Bronx, N.Y., U.S.A. : New York Botanical Garden, 1984.
  F2519.1.A6 E87 1983
• Ethnobotany of the Hopi ; Alfred F. Whiting. 
  Flagstaff, Arizona : Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, 1939.
  F806 .M95 no.15 1939 
• The ethnobotany of the Kwanyama Ovambos
  Robert J. Rodin. 
  St. Louis, Mo. : Missouri Botanical Garden], 1985.
  DT709 .R631 1985
• Fijian medicinal plants
  R.C. Cambie and J. Ash. 
  Australia: CSIRO Australia, c1994.
  QK99.F55 C36 1994
• Medicinal plants in Viet Nam. 
  Manila : World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific ; Hanoi : Institute of Materia Medica, 1990, c1989.
  QK99.V5 M445 1990
• New directions in the study of plants and people : research contributions from the Institute of Economic Botany
  Ghillean T. Prance and Michael J. Balick, editors. 
  Bronx, N.Y., U.S.A. : New York Botanical Garden, 1990.
  SB108.A45 N48 1990
• Peppers : the domesticated Capsicums
  Jean Andrews 
  SB307.P4 A53 1995   
• El placer del chile
  Janet Long Solís, Manuel Álvarez y Aranzazú Camarena. 
  México : Clío, 1998.
  TX803.P46 L66 1998 
• Plantas aromaticas y medicinales : Umbelíferas : coriandro, anis, comino, hinojo, eneldo y alcaravea : cultivo, economía y mercado ; Ana Curioni & Osvaldo Arizio
  Buenos Aires, Argentina : Editorial Hemisferio Sur, 1997
  SB302.A7 C87 1997 
• Spice plants
  M. Borget. 
  London : Macmillan, 1993
  SB305 .B68 1993  

Articles

Willingham, Emily. "Eat Your Peppers, Gentlemen." 3 April 2006. Plexus Encyclopedia of Medicine, Science, and Technology. 3.61(2006). 15 May 2006.

University of Michigan, Dearborn
Native American Ethnobotany
A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants.
http://herb.umd.umich.edu/ 

Ethnobotany: Plants and People Interacting, UCR
Interviews of Ethnobotanists
http://maya.ucr.edu/pril/ethnobotany/Start.html 

How people make use of indigenous plants
http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/Ethnobotany/page2.html

This exhibit was created on  February 27, 2006 and  designed by Margaret Hogarth and Marie Bronoel
in collaboration with Araceli Aguilar Melendez and Pesach Lubinsky.

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