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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Ausgabe 1/2021

Inhalt (72 Artikel)

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Indigenous biosystematics of yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Southwest Ethiopia: folk taxonomy, ethnolinguistic analysis, and folk descriptors

Tsegaye Babege Worojie, Bizuayehu Tesfaye Asfaw, Wendawek Abebe Mengesha

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Participatory analysis of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) cropping system and production constraints in Burkina Faso

Boubacar Sinare, Amos Miningou, Baloua Nebié, John Eleblu, Ofori Kwadwo, Appolinaire Traoré, Bertin Zagre, Haile Desmae

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Ethnoecology of miriti (Mauritia flexuosa, L.f.) fruit extraction in the Brazilian Amazon: knowledge and practices of riverine peoples contribute to the biodiversity conservation

Flávio Bezerra Barros, Fagner Freires de Sousa, Josiele Pantoja de Andrade, Fabrício Menezes Ramos, Camila Vieira-da-Silva

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What interferes with conducting free lists? A comparative ethnobotanical experiment

Melise Pessôa Araujo Meireles, Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros

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Ethnobotanical characterization of medicinal plants used in Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu territories, Kongo-Central Province in DR Congo

Kibungu Kembelo Pathy, Nzuki Bakwaye Flavien, Belesi Katula Honoré, Wouter Vanhove, Patrick Van Damme

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Wild food plants and fungi sold in the markets of Luang Prabang, Lao PDR

Łukasz Łuczaj, Vichith Lamxay, Khamphart Tongchan, Kosonh Xayphakatsa, Kongchay Phimmakong, Somphavanh Radavanh, Villapone Kanyasone, Marcin Pietras, Małgorzata Karbarz

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Actualized inventory of medicinal plants used in traditional medicine in Oaxaca, Mexico

Cruz-Pérez Alejandra Lucía, Barrera-Ramos Jacqueline, Bernal-Ramírez Luis Alberto, Bravo-Avilez David, Rendón-Aguilar Beatriz

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Correction to: Ethnobotanical characterization of medicinal plants used in Kisantu and Mbanza-Ngungu territories, Kongo-Central Province in DR Congo

Kibungu Kembelo Pathy, Nzuki Bakwaye Flavien, Belesi Katula Honoré, Wouter Vanhove, Patrick Van Damme

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What’s in a name? Revisiting medicinal and religious plants at an Amazonian market

Isabela Pombo Geertsma, Mariana Françozo, Tinde van Andel, Mireia Alcántara Rodríguez

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Traditional knowledge and practice of the Triassic variegated clay from Silesia (Krasiejów), Poland, in human medicine

Izabela Spielvogel, Krzysztof Spałek, Krzysztof Badora, Jarosław Proćków

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Just beautiful green herbs: use of plants in cultural practices in Bukovina and Roztochya, Western Ukraine

N. Stryamets, M. F. Fontefrancesco, G. Mattalia, J. Prakofjewa, A. Pieroni, R. Kalle, G. Stryamets, R. Sõukand

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An ethnopharmacological survey and comparative analysis of plants from the Sudhnoti District, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

Muhammad Faraz Khan, Zia-ur-Rahman Mashwani, Ansar Mehmood, Rehmatullah Qureshi, Rizwan Sarwar, Khawaja Shafique Ahmad, Cassandra L. Quave

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Use, perception, and local management of Copernicia prunifera (Miller) H. E. Moore in rural communities in the Brazilian Savanna

José Afonso Santana de Almeilda, Nágila Alves Feitosa, Leilane de Carvalho e Sousa, Raimundo Nonato Oliveira Silva, Rodrigo Ferreira de Morais, Júlio Marcelino Monteiro, José Ribamar de Sousa Júnior

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Entomotherapy: a study of medicinal insects of seven ethnic groups in Nagaland, North-East India

Lobeno Mozhui, L. N. Kakati, Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow

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Ethnozoological and commercial drivers of the pangolin trade in Benin

Stanislas Zanvo, Sylvestre C. A. M. Djagoun, Fortuné A. Azihou, Bruno Djossa, Brice Sinsin, Philippe Gaubert

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Ethnobotanical study on herbal market at the Dragon Boat Festival of Chuanqing people in China

Qinghe Wang, Ling Zhao, Chi Gao, Jiawen Zhao, Zixuan Ren, Yuxiang Shen, Ruyu Yao, Hongxiang Yin

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Homegarden agroecosystems managed by Salar people on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Mingjing Zhu, Binsheng Luo, Ben La, Ruijie Chen, Fenggui Liu, Chunlin Long

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Ethnobotanical biocultural diversity by rural communities in the Cuatrociénegas Valley, Coahuila; Mexico

Eduardo Estrada-Castillón, José Ángel Villarreal-Quintanilla, Juan Antonio Encina-Domínguez, Enrique Jurado-Ybarra, Luis Gerardo Cuéllar-Rodríguez, Patricio Garza-Zambrano, José Ramón Arévalo-Sierra, César Martín Cantú-Ayala, Wibke Himmelsbach, María Magdalena Salinas-Rodríguez, Tania Vianney Gutiérrez-Santillán

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Assessment of biodiversity goods for the sustainable development of the chagra in an indigenous community of the Colombian Amazon: local values of crops

Giovanny Garavito, Rafael Clavijo, Pilar Luengas, Pablo Palacios, María Helena Arias

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Quality blues: traditional knowledge used for natural indigo identification in southern China

Yuru Shi, Libin Zhang, Lu Wang, Shan Li, Zuchuan Qiu, Xiaoyong Ding, Yuhua Wang

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The use of medicinal plants to prevent COVID-19 in Nepal

Dipak Khadka, Man Kumar Dhamala, Feifei Li, Prakash Chandra Aryal, Pappu Rana Magar, Sijar Bhatta, Manju Shree Thakur, Anup Basnet, Dafang Cui, Shi Shi

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Farmer preferred traits and genotype choices in Solanum aethiopicum L., Shum group

Brenda Nakyewa, Godfrey Sseremba, Nahamya Pamela Kabod, Moses Rwothtimutung, Tadeo Kyebalyenda, Kenneth Waholi, Ruth Buteme, Mildred Julian Nakanwangi, Gerard Bishop, Elizabeth Balyejusa Kizito

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Breaking the paradigms of residual categories and neglectable importance of non-used resources: the “vital” traditional knowledge of non-edible mushrooms and their substantive cultural significance

Amaranta Ramírez-Terrazo, E. Adriana Montoya, Roberto Garibay-Orijel, Javier Caballero-Nieto, Alejandro Kong-Luz, Claudia Méndez-Espinoza

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Contested or complementary healing paradigms? Women’s narratives of COVID-19 remedies in Mwanza, Tanzania

Gerry Mshana, Zaina Mchome, Diana Aloyce, Esther Peter, Saidi Kapiga, Heidi Stöckl

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Ethnobotany of the medicinal plants used by the ethnic communities of Kerman province, Southeast Iran

Seyed Hamzeh Hosseini, Hossein Bibak, Abdollah Ramzani Ghara, Amirhossein Sahebkar, Abolfaz Shakeri

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Ethnobiological study on traditional medicinal plants and fungi recorded in the Naxi Dongba sutras

Haitao Li, Zhiyong Li, Xiaobo Zhang, Shaohua Yang, Cui Chen, Qingning Yang, Chengfeng He, Jianqin Liu, Jingyuan Song

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Nahua biocultural richness: an ethnoherpetological perspective

Miriam Itzel Linares-Rosas, Benigno Gómez, Elda Miriam Aldasoro-Maya, Alejandro Casas

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The role of schools as an opportunity for transmission of local knowledge about useful Restinga plants: experiences in southeastern Brazil

Nicky van Luijk, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Viviane Stern da Fonseca-Kruel

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What are the factors influencing the aversion of students towards reptiles?

Moacyr Xavier Gomes da Silva, Franciany Braga-Pereira, Mikaela Clotilde da Silva, José Valberto de Oliveira, Sérgio de Faria Lopes, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves

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Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil)

Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Karina Ferreira Figueiredo, Paulo Henrique Santos Gonçalves, Roberta de Almeida Caetano, Élida Monique da Costa Santos, Gabriela Maria Cota dos Santos, Déborah Monteiro Barbosa, Marcelo de Paula, Ana Maria Mapeli

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Notes on current Mbyá-Guarani medicinal plant exchanges in southern Brazil

Julian Henrique Carlotto de Andrade, José Rodrigues, André Benites, Cornélio Benites, Arlindo Acosta, Marcelina Benites, Cocelina Benites, Ilda Gomes, Jaime Valdir da Silva, Eunice Antunes, Elisete Antunes, José Martins, Daniel Martins Timóteo, Santiago Franco, José Cirilo Pires Morinico, Fernanda Ribeiro da Silva, Natalia Hanazaki

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Comparative analysis of management practices and end-users’ desired breeding traits in the miracle plant [Synsepalum dulcificum (Schumach & Thonn.) Daniell] across ecological zones and sociolinguistic groups in West Africa

Dèdéou A. Tchokponhoué, Enoch G. Achigan-Dako, Sognigbé N’Danikou, Daniel Nyadanu, Rémi Kahane, Alfred O. Odindo, Julia Sibiya

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Ichthyological ethnoknowledge of the “piabeiros” from the Amazon region, Brazil

Daniel da Silva Ladislau, Maiko Willas Soares Ribeiro, Philip Dalbert da Silva Castro, Jackson Pantoja-Lima, Paulo Henrique Rocha Aride, Adriano Teixeira de Oliveira

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Ethnozoology among the Berbers: pre-Islamic practices survive in the Rif (northwestern Africa)

Aymane Budjaj, Guillermo Benítez, Juan Manuel Pleguezuelos

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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding vector-borne diseases in central Mexico

Joel E. Nava-Doctor, César A. Sandoval-Ruiz, Antonio Fernández-Crispín

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Wild plants used by the Lhoba people in Douyu Village, characterized by high mountains and valleys, in southeastern Tibet, China

Wen-Yun Chen, Tao Yang, Jun Yang, Zhu-Chuan Qiu, Xiao-Yong Ding, Yu-Hua Wang, Yue-Hu Wang

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Ethnobotany of the Aegadian Islands: safeguarding biocultural refugia in the Mediterranean

Alfonso La Rosa, Laura Cornara, Alessandro Saitta, Akram M. Salam, Santo Grammatico, Marco Caputo, Tommaso La Mantia, Cassandra L. Quave

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How does urbanization affect perceptions and traditional knowledge of medicinal plants?

Cecilia Arjona-García, José Blancas, Leonardo Beltrán-Rodríguez, Citlalli López Binnqüist, Hortensia Colín Bahena, Ana Isabel Moreno-Calles, José Antonio Sierra-Huelsz, Xavier López-Medellín

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Indigenous plant protection practices of Tripura, India

Satyapriya Singh, Biswajit Das, Anup Das, Sujan Majumder, Hidangmayum Lembisana Devi, Ranjeet Singh Godara, Alok Kumar Sahoo, Manas Ranjan Sahoo

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Uses, abundance perception, and potential geographical distribution of Smilax aristolochiifolia Mill (SMILACACEAE) on the Totonacapan Region of Puebla, Mexico

José Espinoza-Pérez, César Reyes, Jesús Hernández-Ruíz, Maximino Díaz-Bautista, Francisco Ramos-López, Abel Espinoza-Gómez, Oscar Pérez-García

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Local plant knowledge and its variation among farmer’s families in the Napf region, Switzerland

Anna Poncet, Christoph Schunko, Christian R. Vogl, Caroline S. Weckerle

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In situ conservation of traditional vegetable diversity in Wa homegardens in southwestern Yunnan, China

Hua Shao, Rosemary Hill, Dayuan Xue, Jingbiao Yang

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Exploration of ethnomedicinal plants and their practices in human and livestock healthcare in Haripur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Zeeshan Siddique, Nasir Shad, Ghulam Mujtaba Shah, Abid Naeem, Liu Yali, Muhammad Hasnain, Arshad Mahmood, Muhammad Sajid, Muhammad Idrees, Ilyas Khan

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Preserving for the future the — once widespread but now vanishing — knowledge on traditional pig grazing in forests and marshes (Sava-Bosut floodplain, Serbia)

Zsolt Molnár, Klára Szabados, Alen Kiš, Jelena Marinkov, László Demeter, Marianna Biró, Kinga Öllerer, Krisztián Katona, Marko Đapić, Ranko Perić, Viktor Ulicsni, Dániel Babai

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The Primate Cultural Significance Index: applications with Popoluca Indigenous people at Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve

Marianna Pinto-Marroquin, John F. Aristizabal, Yasminda García-Del Valle, Felipe Ruan-Soto, Juan Carlos Serio-Silva

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Traditional knowledge of medicinal plants on Gau Island, Fiji: differences between sixteen villages with unique characteristics of cultural value

Kana Miyamoto, Hiroshi Ehara, Randolph Thaman, Joeli Veitayaki, Takehito Yoshida, Hikaru Kobayashi

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Selection of medicinal plants for traditional medicines in Nepal

Durga H. Kutal, Ripu M. Kunwar, Yadav Uprety, Yagya P. Adhikari, Shandesh Bhattarai, Binaya Adhikari, Laxmi M. Kunwar, Man D. Bhatt, Rainer W. Bussmann

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The legacy of traditional rice cultivation by descendants of Indian contract laborers in Suriname

Melissa Ramdayal, Harro Maat, Tinde van Andel

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Zootherapeutic uses of animals excreta: the case of elephant dung and urine use in Sayaboury province, Laos

Jean-Marc Dubost, Phommachack Kongchack, Eric Deharo, Palamy Sysay, Chithdavone Her, Lamxay Vichith, Duffillot Sébastien, Sabrina Krief

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Known but not called by name: recreational fishers’ ecological knowledge of freshwater plants in Hungary

Viktor Löki, Jenő Nagy, András Nagy, Dániel Babai, Zsolt Molnár, Balázs András Lukács

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Correction to: Selection of medicinal plants for traditional medicines in Nepal

Durga H. Kutal, Ripu M. Kunwar, Yadav Uprety, Yagya P. Adhikari, Shandesh Bhattarai, Binaya Adhikari, Laxmi M. Kunwar, Man D. Bhatt, Rainer W. Bussmann

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Shifting perceptions, preferences and practices in the African fruit trade: the case of African plum (Dacryodes edulis) in different cultural and urbanization contexts in Cameroon

Aurore Rimlinger, Jérôme Duminil, Taïna Lemoine, Marie-Louise Avana, Armel Chakocha, Alexis Gakwavu, Franca Mboujda, Mélanie Tsogo, Marlène Elias, Stéphanie M. Carrière

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The loneliness of the long-distance ethnobotanist: a constructive critique of methods used in an ethnoveterinary study in Mongolia

Barbara C. Seele, Léanne Dreyer, Karen J. Esler, Anthony B. Cunningham

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Herbal plants traded at the Kaili medicinal market, Guizhou, China

Sizhao Liu, Beixi Zhang, Jiangju Zhou, Qiyi Lei, Qiong Fang, Edward J. Kennelly, Chunlin Long

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In search of traces of the mandrake myth: the historical, and ethnobotanical roots of its vernacular names

Amots Dafni, Cesar Blanché, Salekh Aqil Khatib, Theodora Petanidou, Bedrettin Aytaç, Ettore Pacini, Ekaterina Kohazurova, Aharon Geva-Kleinberger, Soli Shahvar, Zora Dajic, Helmut W. Klug, Guillermo Benítez

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Species perceived to be dangerous are more likely to have distinctive local names

Harith Farooq, Cláudio Bero, Yolanda Guilengue, Clementina Elias, Yasalde Massingue, Ivo Mucopote, Cristóvão Nanvonamuquitxo, Johan Marais, Alexandre Antonelli, Søren Faurby

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Temporal assessment of the medicinal plants trade in public markets of the state of Paraíba, northeastern Brazil

Ezequiel da Costa Ferreira, Reinado Farias Paiva de Lucena, Rainer W. Bussmann, Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana, Denise Dias da Cruz

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Ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Adwa District, Central Zone of Tigray Regional State, Northern Ethiopia

Muhidin Tahir, Letebrhan Gebremichael, Tadesse Beyene, Patrick Van Damme

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Unity in diversity—food plants and fungi of Sakartvelo (Republic of Georgia), Caucasus

Rainer W. Bussmann, Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana, Inayat Ur Rahman, Zaal Kikvidze, Shalva Sikharulidze, David Kikodze, David Tchelidze, Manana Khutsishvili, Ketevan Batsatsashvili