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“We Are Italians!”: The Hybrid Ethnobotany of a Venetian Diaspora in Eastern Romania

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  1. We did not consider a recent medical-botanical inventory of the Oltenia region of Romania (Tiţa et al. 2009) since the field methods used were unclear, nor the medico-botanical literature concerning Hungarians living in Transylvania (Szabo and Péntek 1976; Papp et al. 2011).

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  1. University of Gastronomic Sciences, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele 9, 12060, Pollenzo, Italy

    Andrea Pieroni

  2. Center for the Study of Human Health, Emory University, 550 Asbury Circle, Candler Library 107, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA

    Cassandra L. Quave

  3. Department of History of Arts and Performing Arts, University of Florence, Via Gino Capponi 7-9, 50121, Florence, Italy

    Maria Elena Giusti

  4. Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Pécs, Rókus 2, 7624, Pécs, Hungary

    Nora Papp

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Pieroni, A., Quave, C.L., Giusti, M.E. et al. “We Are Italians!”: The Hybrid Ethnobotany of a Venetian Diaspora in Eastern Romania. Hum Ecol 40, 435–451 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-012-9493-4

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