Curating Biocultural Collections: A Handbook

ISBN 10: 1842464981 / ISBN 13: 9781842464984

Editore: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2014

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR010896371

Riassunto:

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

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.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Curating Biocultural Collections: A Handbook
Casa editrice: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Data di pubblicazione: 2014
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good