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Current use of wild plants with edible underground storage organs in a rural population of Patagonia: between tradition and change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Edible plants with underground storage organs (USOs) are neglected resources. We studied the local ecological knowledge edible plants with (USOs) in rural populations of North-Patagonia in order to establish how people are utilizing these plants.
Ladio, Ana Haydee, Ochoa, Juan José
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Ethnobiology's Contributions to Sustainability Science

open access: yesJournal of Ethnobiology
Progress toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is insufficient at a global scale. A thorough and interdisciplinary understanding of barriers and levers to sustainability, including synergies and trade-offs between SDGs, is utterly important but still limited.
Arrivabene, Alexandre   +7 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of Two Biologies [PDF]

open access: yes
Anthropological inquiry suggests that all societies classify animals and plants in similar ways. Paradoxically, in the same cultures that have seen large advances in biological science, citizenry's practical knowledge of nature has dramatically ...
Douglas Medin, Norbert Ross, Scott Atran
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Bulungan ethnobiology handbook [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This book is intended as a resource for researchers working in the Bulungan area, including the Kayan Mentarang National Park and the Bulungan Research Project (BRF), it serves as both a field guide to common plants and animals, and a dictionary of their vernacular terms from 18 different linguistic/cultural groups.
openaire   +1 more source

Les premiers pas du Réseau thématique Ethnoécologie et interactions humains-écosystèmes

open access: yesRevue d'ethnoécologie
We present a short report of the first day of the French Ethnoecology and Humans-Ecosystems Interactions Thematic Network. This thematic network is contextualized alongside the thematic school that preceded it and the European Network of Ethnobiology ...
Sandrine Gallois, Richard Raymond
doaj   +1 more source

The Endangered long-tailed macaque is considered a pest in North Sumatra, Indonesia

open access: yesOryx, 2023
Wanda Kuswanda   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

What’s in a Bird’s Name? Bird Records and Aguaruna Names in Amazonian Indigenous Territories of Peru

open access: yesBirds
Western Amazonia hosts the highest bird diversity in the world, yet in many regional indigenous territories, biodiversity remains poorly known to science.
Nico Arcilla   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Garuda 5 (khyung lnga): Ecologies of Potency and the Poison-Medicine Spectrum of Sowa Rigpa’s Renowned ‘Black Aconite’ Formula [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article focuses on ethnographic work conducted at the Men-Tsee-Khang (Dharamsala, India) on Garuda 5 (khyung lnga), a commonly prescribed Tibetan medical formula.
van der Valk, Jan M. A.
core   +1 more source

The use of firewood for home consumption and the fabrication of hand-crafted ceramics in a semi-arid region of Northeast Brazil

open access: yesActa Botânica Brasílica
This study aimed to identify, analyze and compare different uses of firewood for home consumption and for handicraft work in rural communities in Altinho, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Mariana Cavalcanti Gomes da Silva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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