Swahili plants

Swahili plants: An ethnobotanical survey aims at studying some aspects of the behaviour the Swahili-speaking people have vis-a-vis their plant world.
Heine, Bernd; Legere, Karsten
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Title: Swahili plants
Subtitle: An ethnobotanical survey
Authors: Bernd Heine; Karsten Legere
Genre: Ethnobotany; wordbook
Verlag: Rüdiger Koppe Verlag
Köln, 1995
ISBN 3927620890 / ISBN 3-927620-89-0
Original softcover, 17 x 24 cm, 376 pages, several bw-illustrations, text: English

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Very good. Like new.

Description:

Swahili plants aims at studying some aspects of the behaviour the Swahili-speaking people have vis-a-vis their plant world. After having carried out a series of similar studies in the semi-arid and arid lands of East Africa, the main goal was now to look at a society living in an entirely different biotope and engaging in entirely different economic activities: While previous studies focussed on pastoralist and hunter-gatherer societies, the people the authors are looking at here are mainly farmers and fishermen. As in the earlier studies, they aimed at documenting plant knowledge as it is commonly found among adult members of the community having no professionally defined special knowledge of wild plants.

Content: Swahili plants

1 Introduction
2 Folk taxonomy

2.1 Unique beginners
2.1.1 Folk biology
2.1.2 Notes on ethnozoology
2.2 Taxonomic ranks
2.2.1 Life forms
2.2.2 Families
2.2.2.1 MNAZI
2.2.2.2 MCHUNGWA
2.2.2.3 MKOKO
2.2.2.4 MPILIPILI
2.2.2.5 NYASI
2.2.3 Super-generic categories
2.2.4 Generics and specifics
2.3 Nomenclature
2.4 Plants and the noun class system
2.4.1 The survey of Ingo Heine (1989)
2.4.2 Folk taxonomy
3 Plant use
4 Plant lexicon
5 Botanical - Swahili list
References