ABSTRACT

Abstract ....................................................................................................462 12.1 Introduction ...................................................................................462 12.2 Traditional Knowledge ..................................................................463 12.3 All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Ethnobiology

(1982-1998) ..................................................................................463 12.4 The Kani Tribe and Arogyappacha (=Elixir of Health) ................465 12.5 Scientific Investigation on Arogyappacha and

Development of the Herbal Drug Jeevani .....................................466 12.6 Ethnobotany Research in 20th and 21st Century .............................468 12.7 Traditional Knowledge Digital Library .........................................469 12.8 Third World Nations and Intellectual Property Rights ..................470 12.9 Genesis of the Subject Ethnopharmacology ..................................474 12.10 Workshop on Ethnobiology and Tribal Welfare ............................477 12.11 Conclusion .....................................................................................478 Keywords .................................................................................................479 References ................................................................................................479

P. PUSPANGADAN, V. GEORGE and T. P. IJINU