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

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.”