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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Ausgabe 1/2017

Inhalt (71 Artikel)

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Swiss ethnoveterinary knowledge on medicinal plants – a within-country comparison of Italian speaking regions with north-western German speaking regions

Maria Mayer, Mirjam Zbinden, Christan R. Vogl, Silvia Ivemeyer, Beat Meier, Michele Amorena, Ariane Maeschli, Matthias Hamburger, Michael Walkenhorst

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Treating infants with frigg: linking disease aetiologies, medicinal plant use and care-seeking behaviour in southern Morocco

Irene Teixidor-Toneu, Gary J. Martin, Rajindra K. Puri, Ahmed Ouhammou, Julie A. Hawkins

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Knowledge, attitudes and practices in tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.) use and conservation in Eastern Uganda

Esther Ebifa-Othieno, Antony Mugisha, Philip Nyeko, John David Kabasa

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Traditional use and perception of snakes by the Nahuas from Cuetzalan del Progreso, Puebla, Mexico

Romina García-López, Alejandro Villegas, Noé Pacheco-Coronel, Graciela Gómez-Álvarez

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Medical pluralism and livestock health: ethnomedical and biomedical veterinary knowledge among East African agropastoralists

Mark A. Caudell, Marsha B. Quinlan, Robert J. Quinlan, Douglas R. Call

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Cultural significance of termites in sub-Saharan Africa

Arnold van Huis

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Multi-functionality of the few: current and past uses of wild plants for food and healing in Liubań region, Belarus

Renata Sõukand, Yanina Hrynevich, Iryna Vasilyeva, Julia Prakofjewa, Yuriy Vnukovich, Jury Paciupa, Aliaksei Hlushko, Yana Knureva, Yulia Litvinava, Siarhei Vyskvarka, Hanna Silivonchyk, Alena Paulava, Mare Kõiva, Raivo Kalle

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An ethnographic study of salt use and humoral concepts in a Latino farm worker community in California’s Central Valley

Judith C. Barker, Claudia Guerra, M. Judy Gonzalez-Vargas, Kristin S. Hoeft

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Nested Houses: Domestication dynamics of human–wasp relations in contemporary rural Japan

Charlotte L. R. Payne, Joshua D. Evans

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The bear in Eurasian plant names: motivations and models

Valeria Kolosova, Ingvar Svanberg, Raivo Kalle, Lisa Strecker, Ayşe Mine Gençler Özkan, Andrea Pieroni, Kevin Cianfaglione, Zsolt Molnár, Nora Papp, Łukasz Łuczaj, Dessislava Dimitrova, Daiva Šeškauskaitė, Jonathan Roper, Avni Hajdari, Renata Sõukand

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Indigenous knowledge and use of lichens by the lichenophilic communities of the Nepal Himalaya

Shiva Devkota, Ram Prasad Chaudhary, Silke Werth, Christoph Scheidegger

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Folk use of medicinal plants in Karst and Gorjanci, Slovenia

Mateja Lumpert, Samo Kreft

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Traditional knowledge on wild and cultivated plants in the Kilombero Valley (Morogoro Region, Tanzania)

Mirko Salinitro, Renzo Vicentini, Costantino Bonomi, Annalisa Tassoni

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“Horchata” drink in Southern Ecuador: medicinal plants and people’s wellbeing

Montserrat Rios, Fani Tinitana, Pablo Jarrín-V, Natalia Donoso, Juan Carlos Romero-Benavides

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The most used medicinal plants by communities in Mahaboboka, Amboronabo, Mikoboka, Southwestern Madagascar

Tabita N. Randrianarivony, Aro Vonjy Ramarosandratana, Tefy H. Andriamihajarivo, Fortunat Rakotoarivony, Vololoniaina H. Jeannoda, Armand Randrianasolo, Rainer W. Bussmann

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Integrating ethnobiological knowledge into biodiversity conservation in the Eastern Himalayas

Alexander R. O’Neill, Hemant K. Badola, Pitamber P. Dhyani, Santosh K. Rana

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Erratum to: Riverine fishers’ knowledge of extreme climatic events in the Brazilian Amazonia

Ana Isabel Camacho Guerreiro, Richard J. Ladle, Vandick da Silva Batista

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Prioritizing fodder species based on traditional knowledge: a case study of mithun (Bos frontalis) in Dulongjiang area, Yunnan Province, Southwest China

Yanfei Geng, Guoxiong Hu, Sailesh Ranjitkar, Yuhua Wang, Dengpan Bu, Shengji Pei, Xiaokun Ou, Yang Lu, Xuelan Ma, Jianchu Xu

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Evaluating fishermen’s conservation attitudes and local ecological knowledge of the European sardine (Sardina pilchardus), Peniche, Portugal

Heitor O. Braga, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Henrique M. F. Oliveira, Miguel A. Pardal

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Erratum to: Traditional use and management of NTFPs in Kangchenjunga Landscape: implications for conservation and livelihoods

Yadav Uprety, Ram C. Poudel, Janita Gurung, Nakul Chettri, Ram P. Chaudhary

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An ethnopharmacological evaluation of Navapind and Shahpur Virkanin district Sheikupura, Pakistan for their herbal medicines

Maria Zahoor, Zubaida Yousaf, Tahreem Aqsa, Manahil Haroon, Nadia Saleh, Arusa Aftab, Sadia Javed, Mouzma Qadeer, Habiba Ramazan

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Agrobiodiversity and in situ conservation in ethnic minority communities of Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province, Southwest China

Shicai Shen, Gaofeng Xu, Diyu Li, David Roy Clements, Fudou Zhang, Guimei Jin, Jianyong Wu, Pingfang Wei, Song Lin, Dayuan Xue

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Food beliefs and practices among the Kalenjin pregnant women in rural Uasin Gishu County, Kenya

Roselyter Monchari Riang’a, Jacqueline Broerse, Anne Kisaka Nangulu

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The use of Local Ecological Knowledge as a complementary approach to understand the temporal and spatial patterns of fishery resources distribution

Mauro Sergio Pinheiro LIMA, Jorge Eduardo LINS OLIVEIRA, Marcelo Francisco de NÓBREGA, Priscila Fabiana Macedo LOPES

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The socioeconomic context of the use of Euterpe precatoria Mart. and E. oleracea Mart. in Bolivia and Peru

Narel Paniagua-Zambrana, Rainer W. Bussmann, Manuel J. Macía

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Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used as insects repellents in six malaria endemic localities of Cameroon

Roger Ducos Fokouo Youmsi, Patrick Valère Tsouh Fokou, Elisabeth Zeuko’o Menkem, Issakou Bakarnga-Via, Rodrigue Keumoe, Victor Nana, Fabrice Fekam Boyom

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Semiarid ethnoagroforestry management: Tajos in the Sierra Gorda, Guanajuato, Mexico

Vincent M. Hoogesteger van Dijk, Alejandro Casas, Ana Isabel Moreno-Calles

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The use of birds as pets in Mexico

Blanca Roldán-Clarà, Víctor M. Toledo, Ileana Espejel

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Truffle renaissance in Poland – history, present and prospects

Aleksandra Rosa-Gruszecka, Dorota Hilszczańska, Wojciech Gil, Bogusław Kosel

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Utilization and farmers’ knowledge on pigeonpea diversity in Benin, West Africa

Mathieu Anatole Tele Ayenan, Agyemang Danquah, Léonard Essehou Ahoton, Kwadwo Ofori

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Plants as highly diverse sources of construction wood, handicrafts and fibre in the Heihe valley (Qinling Mountains, Shaanxi, China): the importance of minor forest products

Jin Kang, Yongxiang Kang, Jing Feng, Mengying Liu, Xiaolian Ji, Dengwu Li, Kinga Stawarczyk, Łukasz Łuczaj

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Ethnomedicinal and cultural practices of mammals and birds in the vicinity of river Chenab, Punjab-Pakistan

Muhammad Altaf, Arshad Javid, Muhammad Umair, Khalid Javed Iqbal, Zahid Rasheed, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

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Cognition, culture and utility: plant classification by Paraguayan immigrant farmers in Misiones, Argentina

Monika Kujawska, N. David Jiménez-Escobar, Justin M. Nolan, Daniel Arias-Mutis

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Patient-centered boundary mechanisms to foster intercultural partnerships in health care: a case study in Guatemala

Martin Hitziger, Mónica Berger Gonzalez, Eduardo Gharzouzi, Daniela Ochaíta Santizo, Regina Solis Miranda, Andrea Isabel Aguilar Ferro, Ana Vides-Porras, Michael Heinrich, Peter Edwards, Pius Krütli

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Rare tradition of the folk medicinal use of Aconitum spp. is kept alive in Solčavsko, Slovenia

Marija Povšnar, Gordana Koželj, Samo Kreft, Mateja Lumpert

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Habits and customs of crab catchers in southern Bahia, Brazil

Angélica M. S. Firmo, Mônica M. P. Tognella, Gabrielle D. Tenório, Raynner R. D. Barboza, Rômulo R. N. Alves

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Medicinal and commercial uses of ostrich products in Tanzania

Flora Magige, Eivin Røskaft

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Ethnomedicinal plants used by local inhabitants of Jakholi block, Rudraprayag district, western Himalaya, India

Ankit Singh, Mohan C. Nautiyal, Ripu M. Kunwar, Rainer W. Bussmann

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More fishers and fewer martens due to cumulative effects of forest management and climate change as evidenced from local knowledge

Pauline Suffice, Hugo Asselin, Louis Imbeau, Marianne Cheveau, Pierre Drapeau

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Sharing fishers´ ethnoecological knowledge of the European pilchard (Sardina pilchardus) in the westernmost fishing community in Europe

Heitor de Oliveira Braga, Miguel Ângelo Pardal, Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro

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Medicinal plants used by inhabitants of the Shigar Valley, Baltistan region of Karakorum range-Pakistan

Zaheer Abbas, Shujaul Mulk Khan, Jan Alam, Sher Wali Khan, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi

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Use of cultivated plants and non-plant remedies for human and animal home-medication in Liubań district, Belarus

Renata Sõukand, Yanina Hrynevich, Julia Prakofjewa, Tatsiana Valodzina, Iryna Vasilyeva, Jury Paciupa, Aliaksandra Shrubok, Aliaksei Hlushko, Yana Knureva, Yulia Litvinava, Siarhei Vyskvarka, Hanna Silivonchyk, Alena Paulava, Mare Kõiva, Raivo Kalle

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Traditional knowledge hiding in plain sight – twenty-first century ethnobotany of the Chácobo in Beni, Bolivia

Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana, Rainer W. Bussmann, Robbie E. Hart, Araceli L. Moya Huanca, Gere Ortiz Soria, Milton Ortiz Vaca, David Ortiz Álvarez, Jorge Soria Morán, María Soria Morán, Saúl Chávez, Bertha Chávez Moreno, Gualberto Chávez Moreno, Oscar Roca, Erlin Siripi

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The implications of ritual practices and ritual plant uses on nature conservation: a case study among the Naxi in Yunnan Province, Southwest China

Yanfei Geng, Guoxiong Hu, Sailesh Ranjitkar, Yinxian Shi, Yu Zhang, Yuhua Wang

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Sociocultural and ecological factors influencing management of edible and non-edible plants: the case of Ixcatlán, Mexico

Selene Rangel-Landa, Alejandro Casas, Eduardo García-Frapolli, Rafael Lira

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Naukan ethnobotany in post-Soviet times: lost edibles and new medicinals

Kevin A. Jernigan, Olga S. Belichenko, Valeria B. Kolosova, Darlene J. Orr

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Medicinal plants used by women in Mecca: urban, Muslim and gendered knowledge

Afnan Alqethami, Julie A. Hawkins, Irene Teixidor-Toneu

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Famine food of vegetal origin consumed in the Netherlands during World War II

Tom Vorstenbosch, Ingrid de Zwarte, Leni Duistermaat, Tinde van Andel

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Farmers’ perception of termites in agriculture production and their indigenous utilization in Northwest Benin

Laura Estelle Yêyinou Loko, Azize Orobiyi, Paterne Agre, Alexandre Dansi, Manuele Tamò, Yves Roisin

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Are identities oral? Understanding ethnobotanical knowledge after Irish independence (1937–1939)

Fiona Shannon, Astrid Sasse, Helen Sheridan, Michael Heinrich

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Functional diversity of home gardens and their agrobiodiversity conservation benefits in Benin, West Africa

Rodrigue Castro Gbedomon, Valère Kolawolé Salako, Adandé Belarmain Fandohan, Alix Frank Rodrigue Idohou, Romain Glèlè Kakaї, Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo

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Exploring differences in stakeholders’ perceptions of illegal bird trapping in Cyprus

Heather M. Jenkins, Christos Mammides, Aidan Keane

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Ethnopharmacological studies of indigenous plants in Kel village, Neelum Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan

Khawaja Shafique Ahmad, Abdul Hamid, Fahim Nawaz, Mansoor Hameed, Farooq Ahmad, Jiabin Deng, Noreen Akhtar, Ambreen Wazarat, Sehrish Mahroof

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Magico-religious and social belief of tribals of district Udaipur, Rajasthan

Vandana Singh Kushwah, Rashmi Sisodia, Chhaya Bhatnagar

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Correction to: Medicinal plants used by women in Mecca: urban, Muslim and gendered knowledge

Afnan Alqethami, Julie A. Hawkins, Irene Teixidor-Toneu