SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Schedule

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Week Theme Assignments Activities
01
Knowledge Loss, Knowledge Secrecy.

If you tell all you know you die, but what if you don't know anything. Are you dead to your culture already?
WebLecture
Readings

Plants, People and Culture:
Chapter One People and Plants

Resources

Sacred Earth: Plant and People

Activities
02
Healing plants: Physiological illnesses
WebLecture
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Resources
Activities
03 Healing plants: Cultural illnesses
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Activities
04
Seedless Vascular Plants

Psilophyta
Lycophyta
Pterophyta

Morphology, identifying characteristics, reproduction, local uses and names
WebLecture
Readings
Resources
Activities
05 Food plants: Local food plants
WebLecture
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Resources
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06 Food plants: Famine food and hunter gather food plants
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07
Gymnosperms

Morphology, identifying characteristics, reproduction, local uses and names

 
WebLecture
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08 Plants in material culture: Housing  
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09 Plants in material culture: Transportation
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Resources
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10 Plants in material culture: Body decorations
WebLecture
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11
Angiosperms

Morphology, identifying characteristics, reproduction, local uses and names
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12 Psychoactive plants: Accessing other realms  
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13 Social customs and social impacts of the fruit of Areca catechu
WebLecture
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Resources
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14 Social customs and social impacts of Piper methysticum
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15 Conservation and Ethnobotany: Conservation of our Cultures
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16 Conservation: Models and modes of management
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Instructor email address: dleeling@comfsm.fm
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