Paul E. Minnis
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Plants for Desperate Times
The Diversity of Life-Saving Famine Foods
By Paul E. Minnis and Robert Freedman
The University of Arizona Press
Plants for Desperate Times is an introduction to the foods that have saved millions of lives during lethal food shortages. While not a field guide, it addresses questions about what famine foods are and why they are important.
- Copyright year: 2024
Famine Foods
Plants We Eat to Survive
The University of Arizona Press
How people eat today is a record of food use through the ages, and Famine Foods offers the first ever overview of the use of alternative foods during food shortages. Paul E. Minnis explores the unusual plants that have helped humanity survive throughout history.
- Copyright year: 2021
The Prehispanic Ethnobotany of Paquimé and Its Neighbors
By Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen
The University of Arizona Press
This volume is a major ethnobotanical study for the ancient U.S. Southwest and northwestern Mexico. The results reorient our perspective in the rise of one of the most impressive communities in the international region.
- Copyright year: 2020
Discovering Paquimé
Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen
The University of Arizona Press
Based on a half century of modern research since the Joint Casas Grades Project, this book explores the recent discoveries about important site and its neighbors. Drawing the expertise of fourteen scholars from the U.S., Mexico , and Canada, who have long worked in the region, the chapters revel new insights about Paquime and its influence, bringing this fascinating place and its story to light.
New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops
Edited by Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops profiles nine plant species that were important contributors to human diets and medicinal uses in antiquity: maygrass, chenopod, marsh elder, agave, little barley, chia, arrowroot, little millet, and bitter vetch. Each chapter is written by a well-known scholar, who illustrates the value of the ancient crop record to inform the present.
- Copyright year: 2014
Ethnobiology for the Future
Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan; Foreword by Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnobiology is dedicated to celebrating the knowledge and values of some of the most distinctive cultures and practices on Earth. In this important new collection, MacArthur Fellow Gary Paul Nabhan lays out the case for the future of the field. Nabhan and his colleagues from across disciplines and cultures call for an ethnobiology that is provocative, problem-driven, and, above all, inspiring.
Ancient Paquimé and the Casas Grandes World
Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Michael E. Whalen
The University of Arizona Press
Sixteen scholars on both sides of the border present recent research on the economy, history, religion, and far-reaching influence of Casas Grandes. Macaw feathers, copper, shells, ritual mounds, and ball fields all reveal the secrets of Casas Grandes, a massive town whose trading network extended from the Chihuahua Desert up through the American Southwest.
- Copyright year: 2015
People and Plants in Ancient Western North America
Edited by Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America
Edited by Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
The Neighbors of Casas Grandes
Medio Period Communities of Northwestern Chihuahua
By Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
- Copyright year: 2009
Casas Grandes and Its Hinterlands
Prehistoric Regional Organization in Northwest Mexico
By Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
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