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Ethnozoology: A Brief Introduction
Connections between animals and humans date back thousands of years, and cultures all over the world have developed characteristic ways of interacting with the regional fauna over time. Human communities have accumulated a huge store of knowledge about animals through the centuries (passed from generation to generation, largely through oral traditions)
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves +1 more
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The interactions between humans and animals: the contribution of ethnozoology [PDF]
In this review paper, the variety of interactions established between human cultures and animals is approached through the perspective of ethnozoology.
Eraldo Medeiros Costa-Neto +1 more
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Number of Pages: 5Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Beaman, Kent R. +3 more
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The Analysis of Existing Experience for the Ethnobotanical Information System [PDF]
Ethnobotanical researches reflect the conventional learning of a region. Over the previous decade, medical plants which used for healing indigenous people has become a significant notion among the people and impacted improvement of scientific and ...
Hamidova, L. F. (Laman)
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Although overexploitation threatens some high-profile medicinal animals, little is known about global patterns in the use of - and threats to - medicinal animals.
Monica L. Short, Chris T. Darimont
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Therapeutic and prophylactic uses of invertebrates in contemporary Spanish ethnoveterinary medicine [PDF]
Zootherapeutic practices in ethnoveterinary medicine are important in many socio-cultural environments around the world, particularly in developing countries, and they have recently started to be inventoried and studied in Europe.
Francisco Amich +3 more
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SUBSISTENCE HUNTING FOR TURTLES IN NORTHWESTERN ECUADOR
We describe the subsistence exploitation of an entire turtle fauna in Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador. We collected first-hand accounts and witnessed a number of capture techniques used by rural Afroecuadorian and Chachi inhabitants of the Cayapas-Santiago ...
John L Carr +3 more
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Medicinal use of wild fauna by mestizo communities living near San Guillermo Biosphere Reserve (San Juan, Argentina) [PDF]
Background: Wild and domestic animals and their by-products are important ingredients in the preparation of curative, protective and preventive medicines. Despite the medicinal use of animals worldwide, this topic has received less attention than the use
Borghi, Carlos Eduardo +2 more
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Introduction of Ethnozoology-a review
Interaction between human being civilizations and the animals in their environment is known as ethnozoology. It includes the classification and vernacular names of fauna, folklore awareness, and utilize of whole fauna. The importance of this information to our knowledge of the functions performed by fauna in human being civilization is the focus of ...
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Latin America covers one of the regions with the greatest biodiversity in the world, where, for millennia and up to the present time, human societies have developed a complex and close biological and cultural relationship with animals.
Elizabeth Ramos Roca, Eduardo Corona
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