Calculating the Cultural Significance of American Indian Plants: Paiute and Shoshone Ethnobotany at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Anthropologist
- Vol. 92 (2) , 416-432
- https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1990.92.2.02a00100
Abstract
Ethnobotanical studies are of interest to ethnographers, ethnobotanists, and cultural historians who study the prehistoric, historic, and contemporary contribution of plants to the sociocultural adaptations of American Indian people. A critical research issue is evaluating the differential contribution of plants to American Indian adaptive strategies. This article takes the first quantitative plant evaluation model and combines it with field data from the Yucca Mountain, Nevada, ethnobotany study to explore the utility of this model for evaluating the cultural significance of botanical resources to contemporary American Indian peoples.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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