Publications

With 500,000 higher plants in the world's flora, not including as many less well-known lower plants (the fungi and algae), there exists an incredibly unexplored frontier of new chemical compounds. It has been estimated that of the 80,000 species of higher plants in the Amazon valley, fewer than 1 percent of the plants have been even superficially analyzed for their chemical constituents.

-Richard Evan Schultes, 1995

In Press

Quave, C.L., U. Lohani, A. Verde, J. Fajardo, D. Rivera, C. Obón, A. Valdes, and A. Pieroni. (In Press). A comparative assessment of zootherapeutic remedies from selected areas in Albania, Italy, Spain and Nepal. Journal of Ethnobiology.

2009

	Quave, C.L. (2009). Medicina Popolare del Vulture. Traditional Medicine of the Vulture-Alto Bradano area of southern Italy. ISBN 978-1-61584-442-5. Order Now
2008 Quave, C.L., L.W.R. Plano, T.Pantuso, and B.C. Bennett (2008). Effects of extracts from Italian medicinal plants on plantonic growth, biofilm formation and adherence in MRSA. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 118:418-428. View PDF Quave, C.L., A. Pieroni, and B.C. Bennett (2008). Dermatological remedies in the traditional pharmacopoeia of Vulture-Alto Bradano, inland southern Italy. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 4(5). View PDF 2007
	Quave, C.L. and A. Pieroni. (2007). Traditional health care and food and medicinal plant use among historic Albanian migrants and Italians in Northern Lucania, southern Italy. In: Travelling cultures, plants and medicines. The ethnobiology and ethnopharmacy of migrations. A. Pieroni & I. Vandebroek (Eds.). Pp. 204-226. Berghahn Press, Oxford, UK. Order Now

2006

Pieroni, A. and C.L. Quave. (2006). Functional foods or food-medicines? On the consumption of wild plants among Albanians and south-Italians in Lucania. In: Eating and Healing. Traditional Food as Medicine. A. Pieroni and L. Price (Eds.) Pp. 101-129. Haworth Press: USA. Order Now

2005

Pieroni, A. and C.L. Quave. (2005). Traditional pharmacopoeias and medicines among Albanians and Italians in southern Italy: a comparison. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 101 (1-3): 258-270 View PDF

Quave, C.L. and A. Pieroni. (2005). Folk illness and healing in Arbëreshë Albanian and Italian communities of Lucania, southern Italy. Journal of Folklore Research 42(1): 57-97. View PDF

2004

Giusti, M.E., A. Pieroni and C. Quave. (2004). Medical anthropology at the borders: ritual healing in Arbëreshë Albanian ethnic communities in Lucania (southern Italy). In: Times, Places, Passages. Ethnological Approaches in the New Millennium. 7th SIEF Selected Papers. A. Paládi-Kovács, G. Csukás, R. Kiss, I. Kristóf, I. Nagy and Z. Szarvas (Eds.). Pp. 237-245. Akadémiai Kiadó: Budapest, Hungary. Order Now

Pieroni, A., C.L. Quave and R.F. Santoro. (2004). Folk pharmaceutical knowledge in the territory of the Dolomiti Lucane, inland southern Italy. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 95(2-3): 373-384. View PDF

Pieroni, A., C.L. Quave, M.L.Villanelli, P. Mangino, G. Sabbatini, L. Santini, T. Boccetti, M. Profili, T. Ciccioli, L.G. Rampa, G. Antonimi, C. Girolamini, M. Cecchi, and M.Tomasi. (2004). Ethnopharmacognostic survey on the natural ingredients used in folk cosmetics, cosmeceuticals and remedies for healing skin diseases in the inland Marches, Central-Eastern Italy. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 91: 331-344. View PDF

2002

Quave, C. and A. Pieroni. (2002). Traditional healing in the Vulture area of southern Italy. In: Handbuch der Ethnotherapien/ Handbook of Ethnotherapies. C.E. Gottschalk-Batschkus and J.C. Green (Eds.). Pp. 97-118. Institut für Ethnomedizin: Germany. Order Now

Pieroni, A., C. Quave, S. Nebel and M. Heinrich. (2002). Ethnopharmacy of the ethnic Albanians (Arbëreshë) in northern Basilicata, Italy. Fitoterapia 73: 217-41. View PDF

Pieroni, A., S. Nebel, C. Quave and M. Heinrich. (2002). Ethnopharmacology of liakra: traditional weedy vegetables of the Arbëreshë of the Vulture area in southern Italy. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 81: 165-85. View PDF

1999
Quave, C.L. (1999). Paradise lost? Ethnobotany and its relevance to tropical forest conservation in Amazonia. The Emory Anthropologist: A Journal of Undergraduate Research 4: 24-30. View (HTML)