Global Diversity Foundation/Kew/University of Kent
Annual Ethnobotany Lecture
5 pm, Tuesday 19 October 2004
Prof. Dr. Patricia Howard (Wageningen University)
Gender bias in ethnobotany: propositions
and evidence of a distorted science, and promises of a brighter
future
Abstract: The knowledge and use of plant biodiversity is
everywhere gender-differentiated. I will explore and illustrate the
historical, conceptual, and methodological blindness to gender
differences and relations in most ethnobotanical research, draw
out the consequences for contemporary ethnobotanical
knowledge claims, and illustrate how a gender perspective
changes our understanding of people-plant relationships in
fundamental ways.
Free, all welcome but please pre-book by email to
[log in to unmask] (limited space - note change of venue from last
year)
Museum No. 1 (close to Victoria Gate)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (closest tube: Kew Gardens)
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