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Plants of life, plants of death
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- Book Synopsis
- This study examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity and life, and plants associated with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate and death. It provides detail from history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany and medicine.
- About The Author
- Frederick J. Simoons is professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis, adjunct professor of geography at Eastern Washington University, and adjunct research associate in anthropology at Washington State University. His other books include Eat Not This Flesh; A Ceremonial Ox of India (with the assistance of Elizabeth S. Simoons), both published by the University of Wisconsin Press; and Food in China.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780299159009
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- The University of Wisconsin Press, (25 November 1998)
- Number of Pages
- 568
- Weight
- 875 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 39 mm
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