<div dir="ltr">Thank you to all of those who corresponded with me on my query about references on plant-human interactions in TB/related families/Himalayas. Many people asked for me to share what I learned, as there are many others who are interested in this topic or else related topics. I received a great list of references and leads, which are listed here in no particular order. There are many names of people who could be contacted individually to share handouts or other things as well.<div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-c2bb9fab-7fff-6eba-6fc5-183ce5dafbdd"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1. Hoshi, Izumi 星 泉, Shiho Ebihara 海老原 志穂, Namtargyal & Yusuke Bessho 別所 裕介 (eds.). 2020. チベット</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">語牧畜文化辞典 [Dictionary Of Tibetan Pastoralism]</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Fuchū-shi, Tōkyō: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2. Doornenbaal, Marius A. 2009. A Grammar of Bantawa. University of Leiden Dissertation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Can be accessed at:  </span><a href="https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/14326" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/14326</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Author’s note to me: “In Bantawa (Kiranti) "seluwa" (Artemisia Indica) is used for catching fish. The procedure works by collecting fish in a dead spot in a river, then numbing the fish by throwing in plant mush. At the time I heard about it I thought it was an interesting method.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3. Hyslop, Gwendolyn. 2016. Worlds of knowledge in Central Bhutan: Documentation of ‘Olekha. Language Documentation & Conservation 10: 77-106. <a href="https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/24688/hyslop.pdf">https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/24688/hyslop.pdf</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4. Hyslop, Gwendolyn. and Jade d’Alpoim‐Guedes. 2020. Linguistic evidence supports a long antiquity of cultivation of barley and buckwheat over that of millet and rice in Eastern Bhutan. Vegetation History and Archeobotany. </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-020-00809-8" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-020-00809-8</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">5. Turin, Mark. 2003. Ethnobotanical notes on Thangmi plant names and their medicinal and ritual uses. CNS 30.1: 19-52, paper can be accessed at </span><a href="https://markturin.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2018/07/plant_names.pdf" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://markturin.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2018/07/plant_names.pdf</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">6. Sellers, H.A. 2015. A linguistic approach to ethnobotanical plant name classification in southern Lisu. LaTrobe University Dissertation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thesis can be accessed at </span><a href="http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/latrobe:41888" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/latrobe:41888</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">7. Kurabe, Keita. 2021. A preliminary report on Burmese Phytonyms. Middle Mekong Meeting (Zoom), 1/9/2021. Contact author for copy of presentation.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Author’s note to me: “Plant names in Burmese. One of the characteristics of Burmese plant names is that many of them are based on animals/body parts. Metaphorical plant names based on body parts include:  "cat tongue," "rat tail," "egret leg," "fowl bone," "kite claw," "monkey palm," "elephant nose," "goat shit," and "horse hoof" for plant names. This suggests that plants are easy to recognize through animals. Attached please find a handout of my presentation on Burmese plant names. I hope it will be of some use.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Related to this:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">8. Vittrant, Alice. 2002. Classifier systems and noun categorization devices in Burmese. BLS 28S: 129-148.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">9. Chirkova, Katia, Franz. K. Huber, Caroline S. Weckerle, Henriette Daudey, and Gerong Pincuo. 2016. Plant names as traces of the past in Shuiluo Valley, China. Journal of Ethnobiology. 36.1: 192-214. </span><a href="https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-ethnobiology/volume-36/issue-1/0278-0771-36.1.192/Plant-Names-as-Traces-of-the-Past-in-Shuiluo-Valley/10.2993/0278-0771-36.1.192.short" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-ethnobiology/volume-36/issue-1/0278-0771-36.1.192/Plant-Names-as-Traces-of-the-Past-in-Shuiluo-Valley/10.2993/0278-0771-36.1.192.short</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">10. Tamsang, Aathing KP. 2010. Trees, Shrubs, and Large Climbers Found in the Darjeeling District, West Bengal, and Sikkim. Indigenous Lepcha Tribal Association.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(reference shared by Juha Y (</span><a href="mailto:juha.yliniemi@safarimail.net" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">juha.yliniemi@safarimail.net</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), who says that there are many entries in Latin, Nepali, and Lepcha, and many photos).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">10. Also, I was directed to the scholar profile of Laur Kiik, who has conservation beliefs and ethnonationalism among the Kachin.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/laur-kiik#/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/laur-kiik#/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.etis.ee/CV/Laur_Kiik/eng">https://www.etis.ee/CV/Laur_Kiik/eng</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">11. Also, I received correspondence from Nathan Badenoch</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, who mentioned this: “Jim Chamberlain--I think he mentioned some of the work we have been doing with human-animal interactions from the linguistic perspective in Laos. I am very interested in the human-flora question as well, although I have not yet done too much with it. My interest was really stimulated when I heard some stories in Bit (Austroasiatic language that I work on the most intensively) where people had relations with humans, trees 'became' human, etc. There are ritual taboo groups that have flora origins, as well. I have recently been getting together the flora terms I have for Sida and Pana (TB - the article is in one of the volumes that Jim shared with you) but haven't done anything yet with them. They are closely related languages, and my starting point would be something like what I did with Sida fauna terms, looking at them from the perspective of ethnopoetics.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">12. I also received correspondence from Kevin Kopp (<a href="mailto:ktmtkopp@gmail.com">ktmtkopp@gmail.com</a>), who mentioned this: “World Wildlife Fund did some publications on wild plants names and uses in support of the Amchi association in Nepal. Their work included collaborating with Amchi’s in Dolpo and Mustang.  You might see what is available through the WWF - this was part of their people and environment awareness program.”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">13. I also received correspondence from Alice Vittrant,</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> who suggested: “Mrs Bernot’s dictionary, a 15 volumes Burmese-French dictionary.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Trained somehow by Mr Haudricourt, she included many many names (and drawings) of plants.”</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>----</div>Orche<div>'Thanks' in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manang_language" target="_blank">Manange</a></div><div><br></div><div>Kristine Hildebrandt</div><div>Professor, <a href="https://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/english/faculty-staff/hildebrandt.shtml" target="_blank">English Language & Literature</a></div><div>Co-Director, <a href="https://iris.siue.edu/" target="_blank">The IRIS Digital Humanities Center</a></div><div>Southern Illinois University Edwardsville</div><div>President, <a href="http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/" target="_blank">Endangered Language Fund</a></div><div>Editor, <i><a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/himalayanlinguistics" target="_blank">Himalayan Linguistics</a></i></div></div></div></div></div>