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Historical ethnobotanical studies are useful starting points for further diachronic analysis. The aim of this contribution is to present archival data from the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian borderland, which we...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:20
Published on: 23 March 2017
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The “horchata” is a herbal mixture infusion consumed in Southern Ecuador. It remains unknown how vendors group the plant species to sell them at traditional markets. This research documented the following: 1) ...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:18
Published on: 9 March 2017
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This paper reports a study undertaken in three remote communities (Mahaboboka, Amboronabo, Mikoboka), located in Sakaraha, Southwestern Madagascar. Not only villages are far away from sanitary infrastructures ...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:19
Published on: 9 March 2017
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This research was performed in four villages adjacent the boundary of Udzungwa Mountains National Park in the Kilombero River plain of Tanzania. The area adjacent the villages is characterized by self-consumpt...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:17
Published on: 9 March 2017
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Information on the use of medicinal plants in Karst and Gorjanci is not available in the literature, but collection of plants is still an important and widespread practice in these regions. Karst and Gorjanci ...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:16
Published on: 23 February 2017
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Ethnolinguistic studies are important for understanding an ethnic group’s ideas on the world, expressed in its language. Comparing corresponding aspects of such knowledge might help clarify problems of origin ...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:14
Published on: 21 February 2017
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The aim of the study was to document the prevailing indigenous knowledge and various uses of lichens among the lichenophilic communities in the hills and mountainous settlements of Nepal.
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:15
Published on: 21 February 2017
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This article reports on the use of domestic or table salt for its perceived health effects and healing properties in a Latino farmworker community. It explores how contemporary salt usage beliefs can be seen t...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:11
Published on: 8 February 2017
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Domestication is an important and contested concept. Insects are used as food worldwide, and while some have been described as domesticated and even ‘semi-domesticated’, the assumptions and implications of thi...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:13
Published on: 8 February 2017
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Pastoral social-ecological systems (SESs) are adaptive and complex systems rooted in the extensive exploitation of forage plants for livestock-based livelihoods and culture. There are species and relations tha...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:12
Published on: 8 February 2017
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This study examined the use of wild plants in the food, medicinal and veterinary areas within a small territory limited to one village council in the Liubań district of Belarus. The objectives of the research ...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:10
Published on: 8 February 2017
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Traditional healing methods involving hundreds of insect and other invertebrate species are reviewed. Some of the uses are based on the tenet of “similia similibus” (let likes be cured by likes), but not all non-...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:9
Published on: 7 February 2017
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The number of termite species in the world is more than 2500, and Africa with more than 1000 species has the richest intercontinental diversity. The family Termitidae contains builders of great mounds up to 5 ...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:8
Published on: 26 January 2017
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Human and animal health are deeply intertwined in livestock dependent areas. Livestock health contributes to food security and can influence human health through the transmission of zoonotic diseases. In low-i...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:7
Published on: 21 January 2017
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Indigenous cultures are the result of their adaptation to the natural surroundings, in such a way that, amongst their main features is a set of knowledge, technologies and strategies for the appropriation of n...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:6
Published on: 21 January 2017
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Tamarindus indica L. is one of the indigenous fruit tree species that traditionally contributes to food security and ecosystem stability in sub-Saharan Africa. We hypothesized that the...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:5
Published on: 21 January 2017
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Researchers considering children’s traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) highlighted the importance of examining children’s daily activities as empirical contexts for its acquisition. Many of them evaluated c...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:2
Published on: 13 January 2017
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The transverse harvest knife, also commonly called the finger or finger-bladed knife, has been utilized by rice farmers in southeast Asia for many centuries. The finger knife persisted in many traditional cult...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:3
Published on: 13 January 2017
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Although most Moroccans rely to some extent on traditional medicine, the practice of frigg to treat paediatric ailments by elderly women traditional healers known as ferraggat, has not yet been documented. We des...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:4
Published on: 13 January 2017
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Ethnoveterinary knowledge in Europe may play an important role as a basis for sustainable treatment options for livestock. Aims of our study were (a) to compare the ethnoveterinary practices of two culturally ...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2017 13:1
Published on: 3 January 2017
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Understanding how people interpret environmental change and develop practices in response to such change is essential to comprehend human resource use. In the cosmology of the American indigenous peoples, as a...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2016 12:56
Published on: 7 December 2016
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Cosmetic plants and their uses have often been neglected in ethnobotanical surveys which focus mainly on plants with medicinal or food uses. Thus, this survey was carried out to specifically investigate cosmet...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2016 12:55
Published on: 29 November 2016
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Documenting the spectrum of ecosystem management, the roles of forestry and agricultural biodiversity, TEK, and human culture for food sovereignty, are all priority challenges for contemporary science and soci...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2016 12:54
Published on: 23 November 2016
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Medicinal flora plays a vital role in treating various types of ailments in living beings. The present study was planned to investigate and document systematically the indigenous knowledge in a scientifically ...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2016 12:53
Published on: 15 November 2016
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Seahorses are endangered teleost fishes under increasing human pressures worldwide. In Brazil, marine conservationists and policy-makers are thus often skeptical about the viability of sustainable human-seahor...
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2016 12:52
Published on: 8 November 2016
