Robert Voeks
Biographic Data
| ID | 226118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Voeks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Voeks |
| SIGNATURE | VOEKS R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Flowering and Fruiting Calendar of Babaçu (Attalea pindobassu): Agreement Between Local Ecological Knowledge and Phenological Monitoring in the Chapada Diamantina, Northeast Brazil
The Gradual Loss of African Indigenous Vegetables in Tropical America: A Review
God's healing leaves: The colonial quest for medicinal plants in the Torrid Zone
The colonial era witnessed a fevered quest for exotic medicinal plants by European physicians and scientists. This essay explores the geographical principles that oriented the search towards the lands and peoples of the humid tropics. Believing that God had planted botanical cures for diseases in their places of origin, medicinal plant collectors concentrated their efforts in the pestilential equatorial latitudes. Although many subscribed to the …
Ethnobotany
Ethnobotany is the study of the dynamic relationship between plants and people. Considerable ethnobotanical inquiry focuses on the search for commercially valuable botanical products, especially medicines, but the field is becoming increasingly conceptual and problem oriented. Researchers explore the processes of crop domestication and diffusion, as well as indigenous plant‐naming systems. They investigate the strategies employed by rural subsist…
Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany
Robert C. Clarke and Mark D. Merlin. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013. xv and 452 pp., maps, timeline, and index. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 9780520270480).The end of the war on weed is i
African Ethnobotany in the Americas
Is Non-Timber Forest Product Harvest Sustainable in the Less Developed World? A Systematic Review of the Recent Economic and Ecological Literature
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) provide material subsistence and cash income to millions of rural people, particularly in less developed countries. This paper offers a systematic review of recent trends (2000-2010) in the ecological and economic sustainability of NTFPs. Of 101 NTFP ecological studies, most addressed harvest consequences at the population-individual level (62.4%), and over half (52.5%) were carried out in Latin America. Nearly …
Animals for the Gods: Magical and Religious Faunal Use and Trade in Brazil
African Medicine and Magic in the Americas
CONQUEST and colonization of the Americas by Europeans were accompanied by an unprecedented blending of Old World and New World diseases, ethnomedical systems, and plant-based pharmacopoeias. Romantic visions of a salubrious American Eden, free of illness and aging, yielded to the reality of epidemic and premature death. Indigenous peoples succumbed in droves to exotic viruses; Mediterranean colonists battled new tropical maladies; and African ca…
Sacred Leaves of Brazilian Candomble
Candomble religion diffused from the Yoruba area of West Africa to Bahia, Brazil, via the slave trade. Use of plants for spiritual and medicinal purposes is fundamental to the practice of Candomble. Religious leaders retained elements of their ethnoflora by importing Old World species and by using accidentally introduced weeds. Brazilian species were substituted, when it was not feasible to use African ones. The biogeographical similarity of the …
African Medicine and Magic in the Americas
CONQUEST and colonization of the Americas by Europeans were accompanied by an unprecedented blending of Old World and New World diseases, ethnomedical systems, and plant-based pharmacopoeias. Romantic visions of a salubrious American Eden, free of illness and aging, yielded to the reality of epidemic and premature death. Indigenous peoples succumbed in droves to exotic viruses; Mediterranean colonists battled new tropical maladies; and African ca…
Animals for the Gods: Magical and Religious Faunal Use and Trade in Brazil
Sacred Leaves of Brazilian Candomble
Candomble religion diffused from the Yoruba area of West Africa to Bahia, Brazil, via the slave trade. Use of plants for spiritual and medicinal purposes is fundamental to the practice of Candomble. Religious leaders retained elements of their ethnoflora by importing Old World species and by using accidentally introduced weeds. Brazilian species were substituted, when it was not feasible to use African ones. The biogeographical similarity of the …
God's healing leaves: The colonial quest for medicinal plants in the Torrid Zone
The colonial era witnessed a fevered quest for exotic medicinal plants by European physicians and scientists. This essay explores the geographical principles that oriented the search towards the lands and peoples of the humid tropics. Believing that God had planted botanical cures for diseases in their places of origin, medicinal plant collectors concentrated their efforts in the pestilential equatorial latitudes. Although many subscribed to the …
Sacred Leaves of Brazilian Candomble
Candomble religion diffused from the Yoruba area of West Africa to Bahia, Brazil, via the slave trade. Use of plants for spiritual and medicinal purposes is fundamental to the practice of Candomble. Religious leaders retained elements of their ethnoflora by importing Old World species and by using accidentally introduced weeds. Brazilian species were substituted, when it was not feasible to use African ones. The biogeographical similarity of the …
African Medicine and Magic in the Americas
CONQUEST and colonization of the Americas by Europeans were accompanied by an unprecedented blending of Old World and New World diseases, ethnomedical systems, and plant-based pharmacopoeias. Romantic visions of a salubrious American Eden, free of illness and aging, yielded to the reality of epidemic and premature death. Indigenous peoples succumbed in droves to exotic viruses; Mediterranean colonists battled new tropical maladies; and African ca…
African Ethnobotany in the Americas
Is Non-Timber Forest Product Harvest Sustainable in the Less Developed World? A Systematic Review of the Recent Economic and Ecological Literature
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) provide material subsistence and cash income to millions of rural people, particularly in less developed countries. This paper offers a systematic review of recent trends (2000-2010) in the ecological and economic sustainability of NTFPs. Of 101 NTFP ecological studies, most addressed harvest consequences at the population-individual level (62.4%), and over half (52.5%) were carried out in Latin America. Nearly …
Animals for the Gods: Magical and Religious Faunal Use and Trade in Brazil
Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany
Robert C. Clarke and Mark D. Merlin. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2013. xv and 452 pp., maps, timeline, and index. $95.00 cloth (ISBN 9780520270480).The end of the war on weed is i
Ethnobotany
Ethnobotany is the study of the dynamic relationship between plants and people. Considerable ethnobotanical inquiry focuses on the search for commercially valuable botanical products, especially medicines, but the field is becoming increasingly conceptual and problem oriented. Researchers explore the processes of crop domestication and diffusion, as well as indigenous plant‐naming systems. They investigate the strategies employed by rural subsist…
The Gradual Loss of African Indigenous Vegetables in Tropical America: A Review
God's healing leaves: The colonial quest for medicinal plants in the Torrid Zone
The colonial era witnessed a fevered quest for exotic medicinal plants by European physicians and scientists. This essay explores the geographical principles that oriented the search towards the lands and peoples of the humid tropics. Believing that God had planted botanical cures for diseases in their places of origin, medicinal plant collectors concentrated their efforts in the pestilential equatorial latitudes. Although many subscribed to the …
Flowering and Fruiting Calendar of Babaçu (Attalea pindobassu): Agreement Between Local Ecological Knowledge and Phenological Monitoring in the Chapada Diamantina, Northeast Brazil
Geography (9 works) · Biology (6 works) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (6 works) · Ethnobotany (5 works) · African Botany and Ecology Studies (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Medicinal plants (4 works)