Recording traditional knowledge

A new book sets down the “Traditional medicine of the Marshall Islands: the women, the plants, the treatments”. In a review, Professor William Aalbersberg points to a familiar driving force behind many similar compilations: that the traditional knowledge is in danger of disappearing, and without it the plants needed for traditional medicine are unlikely to be protected.

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