Uses of Plants in the Amalfi Coast/ Usi delle piante in Costiera amalfitana (original) (raw)

2010

Abstract

Life is a journey, why not make it wonderful? This pocket book will tour whereby you will discover the tradition, culture and tastes of one of the most beautiful places of Italy and probably of the world: the Amalfi Coast, a World Heritage Site of UNESCO (1997) (Fig. 1.1, Fig 1.2). The results of a field research, which was carried out in the area between 2006 and 2009, will be here reported. This research aimed to collect the oral testimonies of local people on the knowledge of plants and their uses. Information that will be reported comes from the elaboration of data collected through 214 interviews which were carried out with 214 local people (called informants). Those informants are inhabitants of the 16 municipalities which for reasons of cultural or geographical significance belong to the Amalfi Coast, for both cultural or geographical reasons (Agerola, Amalfi, Atrani, Cetara, Conca dei Marini, Corbara, Furore, Maiori, Minori, Positano, Praiano, Scala, Ravello, Sant’Egidio del Monte Albino, Tramonti, Vietri sul Mare). This book will provide descriptions of the most interesting or characteristic uses of plants; which will be listed according to the way they are used or prepared: specifically, medicinal, food and domestic uses will be described....

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