Discovering Aboriginal Plant Use : The Journeys of an Australian Anthropologist

Philip A. Clarke (Head of Anthropology and Manager of Sciences, The South Australian Museum, Australia)

The author argues that we can better understand a people if we know how they see and use plants. In Discovering Aboriginal Plant Use, Clarke dips into his field journals to provide a rich account of journeys, as both anthropologist and ethnobotanist, that span the temperate, arid and tropical zones of A...