TY - JOUR
T1 - Calculating the Cultural Significance of American Indian Plants
T2 - Paiute and Shoshone Ethnobotany at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
AU - Stoffle, Richard W.
AU - Halmo, David B.
AU - Evans, Michael J.
AU - Olmsted, John E.
PY - 1990/6
Y1 - 1990/6
N2 - Ethnobotanical studies are of interest to ethnographers, ethnobotanists, and cultural historians who study the prehistoric, historic, and contemporary contribution of plants to the sociocultural adaptations of American Indian people. A critical research issue is evaluating the differential contribution of plants to American Indian adaptive strategies. This article takes the first quantitative plant evaluation model and combines it with field data from the Yucca Mountain, Nevada, ethnobotany study to explore the utility of this model for evaluating the cultural significance of botanical resources to contemporary American Indian peoples. 1990 American Anthropological Association
AB - Ethnobotanical studies are of interest to ethnographers, ethnobotanists, and cultural historians who study the prehistoric, historic, and contemporary contribution of plants to the sociocultural adaptations of American Indian people. A critical research issue is evaluating the differential contribution of plants to American Indian adaptive strategies. This article takes the first quantitative plant evaluation model and combines it with field data from the Yucca Mountain, Nevada, ethnobotany study to explore the utility of this model for evaluating the cultural significance of botanical resources to contemporary American Indian peoples. 1990 American Anthropological Association
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U2 - 10.1525/aa.1990.92.2.02a00100
DO - 10.1525/aa.1990.92.2.02a00100
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0000310933
SN - 0002-7294
VL - 92
SP - 416
EP - 432
JO - American Anthropologist
JF - American Anthropologist
IS - 2
ER -