Gary Martin (ethnobotanist) explained

Gary John Martin (born 1958) is an American anthropologist, ethnobotanist and conservationist, known for his 1995 book Ethnobotany: a methods manual,^[1] which has been translated into Bahasa Melayu, Mandarin and Spanish.

Gary Martin received from Michigan State University his B.S. in botany in 1980 and from U. C. Berkeley two degrees in anthropology, M.A. in 1982 and Ph.D. in 1996 with thesis Comparative Ethnobotany of the Chinantec and Mixe of the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico. He is the Director of the Global Diversity Foundation. He has done applied research and training in ethnobotany and conservation in more than forty-five countries, including the Dominican Republic, India, Mexico, China and Thailand.^{[2] [3]}

Selected publications

• with Sergio Madrid: 1992. Ethnobotany, distribution, and conservation status of Ticondendron incognitum in northern Oaxaca, Mexico. J. Ethnobiol.. 12. 227–231.
• Book: Searching for plants in peasant marketplaces. Sustainable harvest and marketing of rain forest products. https://archive.org/details/sustainableharve0000unse. registration. Island Press. Washington, DC. 1992. 212–223.
• with Alison Semple: 1994. Joint ventures in applied ethnobotany. Nature and Resources (UNESCO).
• Conservation and ethnobotanical exploration. Ethnobotany and the Search for New Drugs. 1994. 229–239.
• with Abderrahim Ouarghidi, Bronwen Powell, Gabrielle Esser, and Abdelaziz Abbad: Botanical identification of medicinal roots collected and traded in Morocco and comparison to the existing literature. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 9. 95. 59. 2013. 10.1186/1746-4269-9-59. 23945196. 3846589. Ouarghidi. Abderrahim. Martin. Gary J.. Powell. Bronwen. Esser. Gabrielle. Abbad. Abdelaziz . free .

Notes and References

1. http://www.rolexawards.com/profiles/jury/gary_martin Rolex Awards for Enterprise : Gary Martin : Profile
2. Web site: Global Diversity Foundation Team, Global Diversity Foundation . 2015-08-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150329010659/http://www.global-diversity.org/about-us/global-diversity-foundation-team . 2015-03-29 . dead .
3. http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Endangered_Lang_Conf/Martin.html Gary J. Martin, University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California at Berkeley