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Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide (Paperback or Softbac

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EAN
9780700603251
ISBN
0700603255
Binding
TP
Book Title
Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie : an Ethnobotanical Guide
Item Length
9in
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Publication Year
1987
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8in
Author
Kelly Kindscher
Genre
Nature
Topic
Plants / General, Regional
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Long before sunflower seeds became a popular snack food, they were a foodstuff valued by Native Americans. For some 10,000 years, from the end of the Pleistocene to the 1800s, the indigenous peoples of the plains regarded edible native plants, like the sunflower, as an important source of food. Not only did plants provide sustenance during times of scarcity, but they also added variety to what otherwise would have been a monotonous diet of game. Nevertheless, the use of native plants as food sharply declined when white men settled the Great Plains and imposed their own culture with its differing notions of what was fit to eat. Those notions tended to excluded from the accepted diet such plants as soapweed, labsquarter, ground cherry, prairie turnip, and prickly pear. Today it is strange to think of eating chokecherries, which were a key ingredient in that staple of the Indian diet, permmican. Based on plant lore documented by historical and achaeological evidence, Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie relates how 122 plant species were once used as food by the native and immigrant residents on the prairie. Written for a broad audience of amateur naturalists, botanists, ethnologists, anthropologists, and agronomists, this guide is intended to educate the reader about wild plants as food sources, to synthesize information on the potential use of native flora as new food crops, and to encourage the conservation and cultivation of prairie plants . By writing about the edible flora of the American prairie Kelly Kindscher has provided us with the first edible plant book devoted to the region that Walt Whitman called "North America's characteristic landscape" and the Willa Cather called "the floor of the sky." In describing how plants were used for food, he has drawn upon information concerning tribes that inhabited the prairie bioregion. As a consequence, his book serves as a handy compendium for readers seeking to learn more about historical uses of plants by Native Americans. The book is organized into fifty-one chapters arranged alphabetically by scientific name. For those who are interested in finding and identifying the plants, the book provides line drawings, distribution maps, and botanical and habitat descriptions. The ethnobotanical accounts of food use form the major portion of the text, but the reader will also find information on the parts of the plants used, harvesting, propagation (for home gardeners), and the preparation and taste of wild food plants.

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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700603255
ISBN-13
9780700603251
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie : an Ethnobotanical Guide
Author
Kelly Kindscher
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Plants / General, Regional
Publication Year
1987
Genre
Nature
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Qk98.5.U6k56 1987
Reviews
"Whether you simply like prairie plants, want to diversify your diet, plan to recreate Grandma's plum jam, or are a scholar comparing tribal uses, this book is an invaluable reference."Great Plains Quarterly "This book is semi-popular in nature, containing much information useful to the professional yet accessible to the non-specialist as well."Journal of Ethnobiology "A fascinating and readable book, which will please a wide audience from historians and anthropologists to amateur naturalists, botanists and the home gardener."Missouri Prairie Journal, "Unique and important. . . . A definitive contribution to the study of wild edible plants and American Indian ethnobotany."-- E. Barrie Kavasch , author of Native American Harvests: Recipes and Botanicals of the American Indian, "Unique and important. . . . A definitive contribution to the study of wild edible plants and American Indian ethnobotany."- E. Barrie Kavasch , author of Native American Harvests: Recipes and Botanicals of the American Indian, "Whether you simply like prairie plants, want to diversify your diet, plan to recreate Grandma's plum jam, or are a scholar comparing tribal uses, this book is an invaluable reference."-- Great Plains Quarterly "This book is sem-popular in nature, containing much information useful to the professional yet accessible to the non-specialist as well."-- Journal of Ethnobiology "A fascinating and readable book, which will please a wide audience from historians and anthropologists to amateur naturalists, botanists and the home gardener."-- Missouri Prairie Journal, "Whether you simply like prairie plants, want to diversify your diet, plan to recreate Grandma's plum jam, or are a scholar comparing tribal uses, this book is an invaluable reference."-- Great Plains Quarterly "This book is semi-popular in nature, containing much information useful to the professional yet accessible to the non-specialist as well."-- Journal of Ethnobiology "A fascinating and readable book, which will please a wide audience from historians and anthropologists to amateur naturalists, botanists and the home gardener."-- Missouri Prairie Journal
Copyright Date
1987
Lccn
87-006162
Dewey Decimal
581.6/32/0978
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes

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  • by nacho5530
    04 Sep, 2022

    Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie, by Kelly Kindscher

    The book is used to find edible plants growing wildly in the prairie (or, more specifically, the Great Plains region of North America), hence the title. As for the contents of the book, there are ≈100 entries, each given about 2-3 pages of description, making the book ≈300 pages long. For each entry, there are multiple sections: • A black-and-white sketch of the plant and defining traits (leaves, flowers, etc.), • A map with the general area of said plant, • The plant's name (Common, Indian, Scientific), • A paragraph of written description (what it looks like, what time of the year it grows, etc.), • Its habitat, • The parts used (general), • The edible parts of the plant, • and Cultivation (how to grow it) Overall, the book serves its purpose of finding wild plants on the Great ...

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: alibrisbooks

  • by yousellstuff
    19 Dec, 2019

    Space saver review for more detailed comments later after reading.

    Appears to have good info on listed plants. (Only 4 stars because illustrations are only black and white.)

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: goodwillbookworksaustin

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