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Location: France, Taiwan, Philippines and Spain
Work interests: archaeology, ethnobotany, banana, ginger, handicrafts
Affiliation/website: University of Rovira I Virgili
Preferred contact method: Reply to post in blog/forum/group
Preferred contact language(s): French, English, Spanish
Contact: ckerfant [-at-] gmail [-dot-] com
Favourite publications: Science et Vie, National Geographic, Economic Botany, Journal of Ethnobiology, Nature, Antiquity, Journal of Coastal Archaeology
Work interests: archaeology, ethnobotany, banana, ginger, handicrafts
Affiliation/website: University of Rovira I Virgili
Preferred contact method: Reply to post in blog/forum/group
Preferred contact language(s): French, English, Spanish
Contact: ckerfant [-at-] gmail [-dot-] com
Favourite publications: Science et Vie, National Geographic, Economic Botany, Journal of Ethnobiology, Nature, Antiquity, Journal of Coastal Archaeology
Banana and Ginger for Baskets
Now carrying out fieldwork in Taiwan and Philippines for a Phd project on basket making. I am using a participant-observation approach to learn about the raw materials, techniques, technology and purposes of basket making.
I hope to learn how practitioners assess the properties or qualities of the materials they use, and how the materials are related to end products and uses.
I can translate social/biological research from English or Spanish to...
Dear Peter,
Thank you for sharing this so interesting project with me. It is always amazing to discover new plant use into Handicraft. I recently receive this article upon basket making and it is still located in Amazonia forest.
https://medium.com/social-environmental-stories/we-yanomami-have-presented-scientists-with-a-great-discovery-94697eec280d
There is indeed a similarity of family plant use between America and Southeast Asia, I really like to know more about it.
Thank you very much!!
Best
Celine
Dear Celine,
Here's a great project you will like, happening in the Amazon.... I suspect some vines have similar ecology and uses in SE Asia.
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Ecology-of-secondary-hemiepiphytes-or-nomadic-vines
Dear Celine,
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Dear Peter,
Thanks for your valuable advice, I will proceed soon.
I am still working on my banana descriptors thanks to the Osaka library and to a recent access to the Real Jardin Botanico Archives. By any chance do you know a good book about how to clearly separate species from variety? What I am reading is very interesting but also quite confusing (that is how interesting things taste).
Thank you very much,
Best
Celine