Dr. Nancy Turner | Emeritus Professor, University of Victoria
Febuary 22, 2019 | 7:00 p.m | UBC, AMS Student Nest
Faculty Host: Dr. Kerry Renwick
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Abstract
Our Food is Our Medicine: Traditional plant food, traditional ecological knowledge and health in a changing environment
Presented by | 15th Canadian Symposium on Home Economics/Family Studies Education
For Further Information:
canadiansymposium@gmail.com
Sponsored by:
Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, EDCP
Canadian Home Economics Foundation | www.chef-fcef.ca
Short Bio
Nancy Turner is an ethnobotanist, Professor Emeritus and former Hakai Professor in Ethnoecology with the School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria. She has worked with First Nations elders and cultural specialists in northwestern North America for over 50 years, helping to document, retain and promote their traditional knowledge of plants and environments, including Indigenous foods, materials and traditional medicines.