![]() ![]() Bedouin Ethnobotany, however, offers a sterling example of how "pastoral nomadic ethnobotany" can be accomplished. Modern classifications of the ways in which native people-often living far from population centers-utilize plants in their lives have long depended on the study of small-scale agricultural populations and, sometimes, hunter-gatherer groups. It also makes a major contribution to the larger project of ethnobotany by describing aspects of a nomadic peoples' conceptual relationships with the plants of their homeland. A Bedouin asking a fellow tribesman about grazing conditions in other parts of the country says simply, "Fih hayah?" or "Is there life?" A desert Arab's knowledge of the sparse vegetation is tied directly to his life and livelihood.Bedouin Ethnobotany offers the first detailed study of plant uses among the Najdi Arabic-speaking tribal peoples of eastern Saudi Arabia. ![]()
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