SUBJECT GUIDES - Ethnobotany & Indigenous Culinary Arts

Summary
The purpose of this guide is to offer both general and in-depth resources in the area of ethnobotany and indigenous culinary arts. Most of these resources are housed in the IAIA Library. Some useful Internet resources are also provided.

IAIA Catalog
There are several ways to search for literature information in IAIA Library catalog. If you do not have a specific title, author, or call number in mind, one way of searching is by performing a simple keyword search. Another way is by searching subject headings. Some useful subject headings include:

• Ethnobotany
• Medicinal plants
• Wild plants, Edible
• Indians of North America--Food
• Indian cookery

IAIA Print and Media Resources
Some useful starting points in our print and media collection:

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Articles & Additional Resources - IAIA Databases

• CINAHL Plus
  • Provides full-text articles from allied health and nursing journals.
  • The search phrase "Medicine, Native American" may be useful.
    
• Academic Search Premier
  • A multi-disciplinary full text database containing articles from nearly 4,700 publications.
• eHRAF World Cultures
  • http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/
  • A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life.
• JSTOR
• Full text articles from archived scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, anthropology and social sciences.
• North American Indian Thought & Culture
  • Included are biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories.
• Ethnic NewsWatch
  • Articles from the ethnic, minority and native press.
    
• Oral History Online
  • Gives access to full-text, audio, video, or bibliographic citations to more than 7,000 interviews.

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Selected Internet Resources

• Native American Ethnobotany
  • http://herb.umd.umich.edu/
  • A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants.
• The PLANTS National Database
  • http://plants.usda.gov
  • It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references.
• Botany/Plant Biology (Biosciences)
  • http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/www-vl/
  • Covers all areas of the biosciences with numerous links to sites.
• Plants for a Future Database
  • http://www.pfaf.org/database/index.php
  • Edibile, Medicinal and other uses of over 7,000 plants.
• Traditional Herbal & Plant Knowledge, Indentifications
  • http://www.kstrom.net/isk/food/plants.html
• H.O.N.E.R.I.: Herbology & Optimal Nutrition Education & Research Institute
  • http://www.honeri.org/links.htm
  • Lots of links to related information.
• Ethnobotany of the Americas
  • http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/ethnobotanytb.html
  • Bibliographies compiled by the Library of Congress.
• Na’Neelzhiin Ji Otta’ Plant Book
  • http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObject.jsp?objid=0000039443&reqid=29929
  • Traditional use of plants in the Torreon area of New Mexico.
• Native American Nutrition Education Database
  • http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/NatAm_database.html
  • Resources for cultural food practices, food composition, food safety, health indicators/dietary intake, nutrition education, and recipes/cooking.
• Native American Nutrition Education Database: A Resource List for Educators
  • http://peaches.nal.usda.gov/pubs/ethnic/NativeAmericanResources.asp
  • Links to information about diabetes, health, nutrition and recipes.
• National Food and Nutrition Information Center
  • http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic
  • Resources for nutrition and health professionals, educators, government personnel and consumers.

Page last updated: December 3, 2007
Created by: Tomas Enos & Jenni James
Contact: The IAIA Library