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Wine, Beer, Snuff, Medicine, and Loss of Diversity - Ethnobotanical travels in the Georgian Caucasus

Rainer W. BussmannInstitute of Botany and Bakuri-ani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botani-kuri St. 1, 0105 Tbilisi, GEORGIANarel Y. Paniagua-ZambranaBrown Center, Missouri Bo-tanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, U.S.AShalva Sikharulidze-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, 5, Cholokasvili Ave. 0162 Tbilisi, GEORGIAZaal Kikvidze-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, 5, Cholokasvili Ave. 0162 Tbilisi, GEORGIADavid KikodzeBrown Center, Missouri Bo-tanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, U.S.ATamar JinjikhadzeInstitute of Botany and Bakuri-ani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botani-kuri St. 1, 0105 Tbilisi, GEORGIATamaz ShanshiashviliInstitute of Botany and Bakuri-ani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botani-kuri St. 1, 0105 Tbilisi, GEORGIADato ChelidzeZaal Kikvidze,Ketevan BatsatsashviliNacional de Boliv-ia, Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, Apdo. Postal 10077 correo central, La Paz, BOLIVIANiki BakanidzeZaal Kikvidze,

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Abstract

Research was conducted in July 2013 as part of anethnobotany research-training course in Georgia(საქართველო). After obtaining prior informed consent forinterviews and photographs, semi-structured interviewswere conducted with participants in local villages.Images were taken of the physical environment (soils, waterfeatures, and other geographical context elements), biologicalenvironment (parts of plants used, whole plants,animals, ecosystems, landscapes), and cultural environment(artifacts, villages, crop fields, and other anthropogeniclandscapes, individuals and groups interacting witheach other or the researchers, and people conducting dailytasks of life). Most of the photographs were taken opportunisticallyand only Figures 79-81 were “staged.”

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DOI: 10.17348/era.12.0.237-313

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