TY  - BOOK
AU  - Milliken,William
AU  - Alberts,Bruce
AU  - Gomez,Gale Goodwin
ED  - Fundo Mundial para a Natureza
ED  - Survival International
TI  - Yanomami, a forest people / 
SN  - 1900347733
U1  - 305.898 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Kew : 
PB  - Royal Botanic Gardens, 
KW  - Etnobotânica
KW  - Índios Yanomami
N2  - Many aspects of the social organization, rituals and material culture of the Yanomami Indians of Brazil, and Venezuela have been described and discussed in great detail. Much, however, still remains to be discovered about their interactions with the plant world. In this book a general overview of their use and knowledge of plants is presented, based on data collected from the Brazilian Yanomami (Demini, Balawaú and Xitei regions), who live in the northern part of the Satet of Amazonas and western part of the State of Roraima. The information is discussed in the context of the existing literature on Yanomami ethnobotany, and presented in the context of Amazonian ethnobotany in general. It is shown that a very substantial, and possibly exceptional, diversity of species is used by the Yanomami for a broad range of applications, but that in most cases the species employed and the uses to which they are put correspond closely to those which have been recorded amongst other Amazonian peoples
ER  -