Kim W Bridges

Biographic Data

ID4205161
NAMEKim W Bridges
GIVEN NAMESKim W
FAMILY NAMEBridges
SIGNATUREBRIDGES K W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX0

  • Traditional Botanical Knowledge of the Plain Mennonites

    Open AccessAdam Brown, Adam R Brown et al.ARTICLEEthnobotany Research and…2014

    This study quantifies the culinary and medicinal botanical knowledge of the Old Order or Plain Mennonites in eastern Pennsylvania, a religious group which chooses to reject certain elements of modern technology. The study tests the hypothesis that time, geography, and degree of religious conservatism impact the retention of botanical knowledge. Historical cookbooks and medical texts were combined with data from modern interviews to identify usefu…

  • “Segues” in Botanica

    Open AccessValentina Savo, Yam Lau et al.ARTICLEEthnobotany Research and…2009

    cui gli studenti di differenti backgrounds politici e culturali, pensiamo che questa documentazione fotografica possa fornire una pi chiara spiegazione di come questo esperimento sia stato condotto. In altre parole, lo scopo di questa documentazione fotografica quello di complementare quella pubblicazione presentando i metodi utilizzati in un modo alternativo

  • Are Our Students Taxonomically Challenged or Not

    Open AccessHan Lau, Will C Mcclatchey et al.ARTICLEEthnobotany Research and…2009

    A class exercise to introduce plant taxonomy to non- science majors was conducted as part of the Botany Segue of our Introductory Ethnobotany course at the University of Hawai`i in Fall 2007. Students were given the opportunity to name and develop their own classification schemes for forty plant materials. This paper discusses the results of the class exercise. Binomials were used more often than monomials for plant names and the pattern was reve…

  • Botany Segue

    Open AccessValentina Savo, Y Han Lau et al.ARTICLEEthnobotany Research and…2009

    In the context of a class exercise, students enrolled in the Introductory Ethnobotany course at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa were asked to make up names for 40 fresh plant specimens avoiding the use of any previously known common names. One of the aims of this exercise was to collect data regarding the visual reaction of these students. The students came up with names that were related to shape, color and other morphological features of the…