Cahuilla -- Ethnobotany, Ethnobotany -- California, Ethnobotany, California, Indigenous peoples -- Ethnobotany -- California, Indigenous peoples -- Ethnobotany, Traditional medicine, Traditional ecological knowledge, Cahuilla 

"Temalpakh (From the earth) represents more than ten years of meticulous field work and collaboration by the authors on knowledge and usage of plants among the Cahuilla Indians. The work extends our understanding of Cahuilla use of plants far beyond the scope encompassed by David Prescott Barrows in his pioneer monography Ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California, published in 1900. The studies of Bean and Saubel reveal the high degree of sophisticated knowledge possessed by the Cahuilla concerning plant life, suggest the acuteness of their ecological awareness, and have implications of considerable significance for southern California Indian research as a whole. This new ethnobotany for the Cahuilla covers more than 250 plants and the often fascinating ways in which they were utilized. Additional supplementary material examines the controversial issues of aboriginal agriculture in southern California. Indian people, laymen, and scholars may all profit from and enjoy reading a book that is certain to become a classic in its field."--Back cover.