Open AccessAn interviewwith Elisabeth Hsu on Plants, Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
Author(s) -
Sofia Vougioukalou
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
ethnobiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2159-8126
DOI - 10.14237/ebl.3.2012.55
Subject(s) - ethnobiology , ethnobotany , anthropology , medical anthropology , sociology , applied anthropology , traditional medicine , medicine , medicinal plants
In this interview Professor Elisabeth Hsu discusses ethnobiology as an interdisciplinary science and introduces the book she co-edited with Dr. Stephen Harris Plants, Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology (Hsu and Harris 2010). She discusses epistemological contradictions between biologically and anthropologically orientated ethnobiological studies and argues for a more anthropologically grounded and methodologically rigorous discipline. The interview took place at the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent in the UK in February 2011.