Curating Biocultural Collections: A Handbook - Brossura

 
9781842464984: Curating Biocultural Collections: A Handbook

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Written and edited by world-renowned experts.• Specific chapters covering curation of material collections including herbarium, ethnozoological, paleoethnobotanical , xylarium, ethnographic, ethnobiological products, DNA, horticultural, and seed collections• Chapters on the curation of related reference collections including databases, books and archives, photographs and images, linguistic and audio information, and ethnographic information • Further chapters consider the implications of biocultural collections in cultural, indeigenous, ethical and legal contexts • Each chapter has a bibliography citing important references in individual fields• An appendix provides a much more extensive bibliography on references for curating biocultural collections

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jan Salick is senior curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Katie Konchar is a biologist and botanist. Mark Nesbitt is curator of the Economic Botany Collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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