[MPWG] WEBINAR: Ethnobotany Series: Plants, People & Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany (September 17; 2-3pm ET) - Free registration required

[De Angelis, Patricia]

What will you learn?
Leading ethnobotanists Michael J. Balick and Paul Alan Cox will be discussing their new book Plants, People & Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany, revised from the first edition published in 1996. Balick and Cox have spent many years studying the ethnobotany of indigenous people in various parts of the world, including Central and South America, Asia, Oceania, and many other areas. They were colleagues at Harvard University where they both received their doctorates and were heavily influenced by the famed Harvard professor Richard Evans Schultes, widely considered the ‘father of ethnobotany’ in the U.S.

Speakers:
Michael Balick is Vice President and Director of the Institute of Economic Botany and Senior Philecology Curator at The New York Botanical Garden. He has studied the relationship between plants, people, and culture in the Amazon Valley, Central and South America, the Middle East, Asia, and Oceania.
Paul Alan Cox, recognized by Time Magazine as a “Hero of Medicine” for his ethnobotanical search for new medicines, was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for his conservation efforts with indigenous peoples. He founded the island conservation organization Seacology and is Director of the Brain Chemistry Labs in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

For more info and to register: http://abc.herbalgram.org/site/Calendar?view=Detail&id=121263

This is the first in a new series of Ethnobotany Webinars from the American Botanical Council and the Sustainable Herbs Program.

ABC: https://abc.herbalgram.org/site/SPageServer/
SHP: https://sustainableherbsproject.com/
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