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The ethnobiology of the Haitian zombi
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1983For many years students of Haitian society have suggested that there is an ethnopharmacological basis for the notorious zombies, the living dead of peasant folklore. The recent surfacing of three zombies, one of whom may represent the first potentially verifiable case, has focused scientific attention on the reported zombi drug.
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2016
Ethnobiology and ethnoecology form a hybrid knowledge field, which is marked by interfaces involving the natural and social sciences. In addition, it is directly related to local cultural knowledge and practices and efforts for nature conservation. Thus, a quite complex and rich epistemological scenario is present.
Angelo Giuseppe Chaves Alves +1 more
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Ethnobiology and ethnoecology form a hybrid knowledge field, which is marked by interfaces involving the natural and social sciences. In addition, it is directly related to local cultural knowledge and practices and efforts for nature conservation. Thus, a quite complex and rich epistemological scenario is present.
Angelo Giuseppe Chaves Alves +1 more
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2016
The history of ethnobiology has been addressed by different authors to portray the development of the discipline, its main authors, and its theoretical and methodological approaches, challenges, gaps, and perspectives. At first, ethnobiological studies were characterized by more descriptive approaches and by the documentation of the uses of plants and ...
André Sobral +1 more
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The history of ethnobiology has been addressed by different authors to portray the development of the discipline, its main authors, and its theoretical and methodological approaches, challenges, gaps, and perspectives. At first, ethnobiological studies were characterized by more descriptive approaches and by the documentation of the uses of plants and ...
André Sobral +1 more
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1996
Abstract It is widely agreed today that “culture ‘does not consist of things, people, behavior, or emotions’, but the forms or organization of these things in the minds of people” (Frake 1962: 85, with reference to Goodenough 1957). The question which mightcause disagreement is this: How can the organization of “these things” in the ...
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Abstract It is widely agreed today that “culture ‘does not consist of things, people, behavior, or emotions’, but the forms or organization of these things in the minds of people” (Frake 1962: 85, with reference to Goodenough 1957). The question which mightcause disagreement is this: How can the organization of “these things” in the ...
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MEDFLOR: An ethnobiological database
Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 1993C W, Beecher, C, Gyllenhaal
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