When people travel they take their plants and plant lore with them. In some cultures, making medicinal plants mobile is essential to survival, and nearly every culture has some sort of folk remedy they feed with a plant they would have expected to find alongside them generations ago. This collection of unique essays by experts in ethnobiology, trans-cultural pharmacy and medical anthropology analyze 12 case studies and glean the lessons learned. The studies include examples from people of the Dominican Republic and their travel to New York City with folk ways, Latino's traditional medical knowledge in the US, strategies of Indians from the Asian subcontinent as they come to the US, Swedish women and their traditional herbal remedies, Surinamese immigrants in Amsterdam, Latino migrants in London, the ethno-economy of Kurdish traditional medicine, Somalis and khat, and displacement camp medicine for the Sahrawi people in Algeria. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
