• The ethnobotany of the Americas
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference LC 33.10:97-1
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• Amazonian ethnobotanical dictionary / Duke, James A., 1929-
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference GN564.P4 D85 1994
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• A modern herbal : the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs and trees with all their modern scientific uses / Grieve, M. (Maud)
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference QK99.A1 G72 1998
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• Ethnobotany and medicinal plants : July 1991 - July 1992 / McCarthy, Susan A.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference QK99.A1 M38 1992
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• Aboriginal plant use in Canada's northwest boreal forest /;Robin J. Marles ... [et al.]
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference QK98.4.C2 A26 2000
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• American medical ethnobotany : a reference dictionary / Moerman, Daniel E.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.M4 M67
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• The Cambridge encyclopedia of hunters and gatherers
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference GN388 .C35 1999
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• Native American ethnobotany / Moerman, Daniel E.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.B7 M66 1998
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• Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America : Bahamas to Yucatan / Morton, Julia Frances, 1912-
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference QK99.C315 M67
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• PDR for herbal medicines
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference RM666.H33 P37
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• The dictionary of sacred and magical plants / Rätsch, Christian, 1957-
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference GR780 .R3813 1992
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• Profiles of Northwest plants : food uses, medicinal uses, legends / Robinson, Peggy.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference QK98.5.U6 R62 1979
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• Medicinal plants of the world : chemical constituents, traditional, and modern medicinal uses / Ross, Ivan A.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference RS164 .R676 1999
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• Ancient herb and modern herbs : a comprehensive reference guide to medicinal herbs, human ailments, and possible herbal remedies / Sayre, James Kedzie, 1942-
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference RS164 .S395 2001
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• Earth medicine--earth foods;;plant remedies, drugs, and natural foods of the North American Indians / Weiner, Michael A.
  • Location: Haggard 2 -Reference E98.M4 W4
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• The Western Libraries use Library of Congress Subject Headings. When searching the Library Catalog the following selected subject headings may be useful in retrieving information about ethnobotany.
  

  Botany -- Washington State	Herbs Therapeutic Use	Plants Cultivated
  Botany Medical	Human-Plant Relationships	Plants Folklore
  Botany, Economic	Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany	Plants Useful
  Ethnobotany	Materia Medica, Vegetable	Psychotropic Plants
  Ethnobotany -- Mexico	Medicinal Plants -- Asia	Flowers Symbolic aspects
  Flower Language	Paleoethnobotany	Traditional Medicine - Africa
  Flowers Folklore	Plants and Civilization	Wild Plants Edible

  Note: The subject headings Botany; Ethnobotany; Medicinal Plants;Plants, useful, Wild Plants, Edible; and Traditional Medicine cann be broken down with georaphical regions as sub-headings. For example: Ethnobotany - Africa

• Abstracts in Anthropology
  • Location: Reference GN 1 .A15
  • Dates covered: 1970-current
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  Indexes international books, articles and conference papers in archaeology, ethnology, linguistics and physical anthropology.

• America: History and Life / ABC-Clio
  • Dates covered: 1964-current
  A bibliographic database indexing scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. The scope includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, as well as book and media reviews. 6 Simultaneous Users.

• AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access)
  • Dates covered: 1970-current
  A bibliographic database of citations to agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library. Encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. The AGRICOLA database is organized into two bibliographic data sets, which must be searched separately. Both data sets are updated daily with newly cataloged and indexed materials. Online Public Access Catalog, contains citations to books, audiovisual materials, serial publications, and other materials in the NAL collection. AGRICOLA also contains bibliographic records for items cataloged by other libraries and not held in NAL's collection. Journal Article Citation Index, includes citations, many with abstracts, to journal articles (see List of Journals Indexed), book chapters, reports, and reprints.

• Anthropology Plus
  • Dates covered: 1900-current
  Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK), providing international indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, and edited works from the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, material culture, folklore and interdisciplinary studies.

• Biological and Agricultural Index
  • Location: S 1 .A37 (Wilson 5 West)
  • Dates covered: 1942-1995
  (Coverage is 1964-1994 only) This is a print subject index to over 291 key international English language periodicals in the biological and agricultural sciences. Topics covered include agricultural chemicals, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, environmental science, fisheries sciences, forestry, genetics and cytoloogy, marine biology and limnology, nutrition, soil science, and zoology.

• Biological and Medical Sciences
  • Dates covered: 1982-current
  This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 sources including serials, conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

• EBSCO - Academic Search Complete
  Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.

• MEDLINE
  • Dates covered: 1989-current
  Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, this is the major index of biomedical literature materials. Site License.

• MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography
  • Dates covered: 1926-current
  Produced by the Modern Language Association, this database covers literature, languages, linguistics, folklore, journalism, communications, film, media, and theater and indexes journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, and bibliographies from 1926 to the current year. 3 Simultaneous Users.

• PubMed
  Accesses the MEDLINE database of the National Library of Medicine, covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Contains citations and abstracts for articles in about 3,900 current biomedical journals published in the U. S. and 70 foreign countries.

• Conservation biology
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• Cultural survival quarterly
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• Economic botany
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• Ethnobotanical Leaflets

• Ethnohistory : the bulletin of the Ohio Valley Historic Indian Conference
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Unless otherwise indicated, films (videos or DVDs) are located in Wilson 2 West behind the Circulation Media Desk. To search for films in the Library Catalog, start with a keyword (or subject) search and limit by "Material Type" to Visual Media.

Below are some examples of films with an ethnobotany theme:

• Healers of Ghana
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  Explores the traditional medical practices of the Bono people of central Ghana and how their healers are accommodating the conflict between the arrival of Western medicine and their religious beliefs. Traditionally, Bono tribal priests undergo a painful spiritual possession, during which deities reveal to them the causes of illnesses, which plants to use to treat them, who is perpetrating witchcraft, and which villagers might be endangering society through improper behavior.

• Native American Medicine
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  Native Americans demonstrate their healing rites through spiritual healing, primal healing and first-aid with wild plants.

• Plants, peoples, and medicines of the rainforest
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• A rainforest remedy
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  Scientists working in one of the oldest rainforests in Africa have determined that one tree's bark yields a powerful antifungal compound, while another's shows potential as an anticancer drug. Thousands of other remedies may also exist. However, logging operations, depredation by poachers, and overuse by indigenous peoples are destroying these medicinal gold mines. This program examines efforts under way to preserve the forests and their pharmaceutical treasures, including compensating loggers and native peoples with profits from the sale of new drugs.

• Journal of natural products
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• Linking Sites

• Access Excellence: Botany Web Sites
  Built and maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden and Harvard University Herbaria, this site provides links to global information regarding ethnobotanical research.

• Ethnobotanical Resource Directory
  (Centre for International Ethnomedicinal Education and Research) The purpose of this site is to unify global information regarding ethnobotanical research and documentation on the Internet. The Ethnobotanical Resource Directory is a collection of more than 150 links which are divided into 12 areas.

• Paleolithic Diet Page
  Links to sites that discuss "What the Hunter/Gatherers Ate." Provides links to the PaleoFood.com Recipe Collection and the www.Foraging.com Page.

• Databases

• Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
  Includes medicinal plant searches, chemical searches, and ethnobotanical searches.

• Families of Flowering Plants: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, Information Retrieval
  Describes various aspects of flowering plants including leaf form, stem anatomy, pollination, seed morphology, cytology, and taxonomy. Illustrated.

• Native American Ethnobotany Database
  The current edition of the database is substantially enlarged and includes foods, drugs, dyes, fibers and other uses of plants (a total of over 44,000 items). This represents uses by 291 Native American groups of 4,029 species from 243 different plant families. Native American Ethnobotany by Daniel E. Moerman (Reference E98.B7 M66 1998), evolved from this database.

• Plants National Database (USDA)
  The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information about plants produced by the USDA. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. Included are data reports for plants that are culturally significant.

• Organizations

• CIEER, Center for International Ethnomedicinal Education and Research
  

  CIEER is an nonprofit educational and research organization providing a gathering point for the exchange of ethnomedicinal knowledge and to establish an international network of ethnobotanical researchers. CIEER's goals are to educate the public concerning the use of plants for healing by traditional cultures and to promote the safe and effective use of medicinal plants.

• Herb Research Foundation
  The Herb Research Foundation is a source of science-based information on the health benefits and safety of herbs---and expertise in sustainable botanical resource development.

• Research Projects/Educational Centers/Libraries

• Ethnobotany Resources at the Seattle Public Library
  A collection of some of the sources at the Seattle Public Library that provide information on the many ways plants have met the needs of people worldwide. Created in conjunction with the Washington Park Arboretum.

• The Human Flower Project
  "The Human Flower Project is an international newsgroup, photo album and discussion of how people live through flowers. We report on art, medicine, society, politics, religion, and commerce." Julie Ardery

• Herbariums/Gardens

• Medicinal Herb Garden (University of Washington)
  Images from this hypertext exhibit and partial catalog can be accessed by botanical name or by common name.

• Index Herbarium (New York Botanical Garden)
  A searchable directory of 3,220+ public herbaria of the world and the associated staff members.