Tinde R Van Andel
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 660645 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tinde R Van Andel |
| NOMBRES | Tinde R |
| APELLIDO | Van Andel |
| FIRMA | VAN ANDEL T R |
| AFILIACIONES | Naturalis Biodiversity Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4951-1894 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 75 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 170 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Saint John’s Bouquets
Blessed bouquets and wreaths, hung around homes, have functioned as protective charms for households throughout Europe. This biocultural practice seems to be widespread, although its diversity is not yet fully understood, especially in western Europe. In the Netherlands, we visited all villages where bouquets or wreaths are made and hung around the house on St. John’s Day (June 24th), posing the following questions: Which plant taxa were included…
Surinamese Maroon and Indigenous Knowledge in the Creation of Natural and Ethnographic Collections Housed in The Netherlands
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Royal Dutch Geographical Society commissioned three expeditions to Suriname with the aim of mapping the territory and promoting the collection of minerals, plants, and animals there. These were the Gonini (1903), the Tapanahoni (1904), and the Toemoekhoemak expeditions (1907). Through the analysis of official reports, diaries penned by expedition members, correspondence, photographs, and the ethnogra…
Why are plants named after witches and devils in north-western Europe
Tracing the History of the Taruma People through Plants, Their Names, and Uses
This article explores what plants, their names and uses can tell us about the history of the speakers of Taruma, a language isolate of Guyana. We identified Taruma plant taxa from photographs taken by Taruma speakers and learners, and compared the names and uses of the plants they recorded to those of other Indigenous people to identify knowledge that Taruma speakers share with other nations. Our outcomes show the potential of combining botany an…
The Invisible Tropical Tuber Crop
Edible aroids (plants from the family Araceae) are among the top five most cultivated tuber crops globally, but their consumer acceptance is hindered by acridity. Aroids contain sap that severely irritates the throat and lips if not properly processed. However, no in-depth studies exist on acridity in edible aroids and how to diminish it. We used ethnobotanical methods to document the diversity of edible aroids available in the Dutch marketplace …
Object analysis and species identification of an Asháninka hood from the Rio Ene valley, Peru
A cotton headdress ornamented with several botanical and faunal elements (TM-5074-2) is kept in the depot of the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam. There is little information about the provenance of the object or its context of use. Identified by the museum as a 'shaman hood', is said to have been obtained from an Asháninka indigenous community along the Ene River, Peruvian Amazon. The unusual composition of the hood, with 16 bundles of bird fragments, …
Rice Cultivation and the Struggle for Subsistence in Early Colonial Suriname (1668-1702)
The Black Rice Debate discusses the agency of enslaved Africans in rice cultivation in the Americas from the seventeenth century onward. With regard to Suriname, it was considered highly unlikely that rice grew there before 1730 and that Africans at that time knew how to grow rice. This contradicts Maroon oral history, which dates circa 1690 as the time that their first ancestors escaped into the interior forests with rice. Based on Dutch archiva…
Mechanisms and motivations of medicinal plant use against dysmenorrhea
Background: Dysmenorrhea (painful menstruation) negatively impacts the lives of many women on a global scale. For centuries, women across the world have relied on medicinal plants to treat dysmenorrhea. For an industrialized country like the Netherlands, however, data on such plant use is almost absent. This study aimed to document which plant taxa women in the Netherlands use to treat dysmenorrhea and their motivations behind plant choice. Metho…
Traditional adhesive production systems in Zambia and their archaeological implications
This study explores traditional adhesives using an ethnobiological approach within a multisocioecological context in Zambia. Through semi-structured interviews, videotaped demonstrations, and herbarium collections, we investigated the traditional adhesives people know and use, the flexibility of production processes, resource usage, and knowledge transmission in adhesive production. Our findings reveal flexibility in adhesive production systems. …
The Mystery of Black Rice
During plantation slavery, African rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud.) was widely cultivated in the Americas but was soon replaced by Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.). Maroons, descendants of Africans who escaped slavery in Suriname and French Guiana, continue to cultivate African rice. Genomic research linked this rice to an O. glaberrima variety in the Ivory Coast. Based on interviews with 99 Maroon farmers, of whom 23 cultivate black rice, we describe …
Ethnobotanical research under the Covid-19 pandemic
Background: In response to the limitations on fieldwork imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we describe and assess a remote method for documenting plant-related knowledge, using smartphones that requires no in-person interaction between an on-site Indigenous community and off-site researchers. Methods: The on-site team identified the Indigenous taxa, created equivalents of photo vouchers, and recorded their names and uses as voice messages using a …
The catalogue of the Westhoff collection of Chinese materia medica (c. 1870)
The Westhoff catalogue is a valuable record of Chinese materia medica and its practice in a specific time and space. It reflects an individual physician's interpretation of Chinese medicine, shows the difficulties in the interpretation of cultural-bound health issues between the Dutch and the Chinese, and provides evidence that traditional Chinese medicine spread not only in East Asia but also to the distant Western world
Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana
Given the few written documents left behind by those who escaped slavery, the analysis of African agency in the transfer of crops and knowledge in the successful establishment of Maroon communities benefits from other disciplines, such as oral history, ethnobotany and linguistics. In this article, we report the way stories of enslaved women, who escaped in the early periods of slave rebellion in Suriname, live on in the names of specific rice var…
The Future Is in the Younger Generations
In the context of global change, understanding the knowledge and values given to plants is crucial for choosing relevant approaches towards a more sustainable future. Children are central holders of ethnobotanical knowledge, yet they are still under-considered in ethnobotany. Our study explored the medicinal knowledge of children of the Baka, forager-horticulturalists from Cameroon. We assessed the diversity of medicinal plants they know, the dif…
Vernacular Names of Traditional Rice Varieties Reveal the Unique History of Maroons in Suriname and French Guiana
Rice is a keystone crop in all Maroon communities in Suriname and French Guyana today and they cultivate hundreds of traditional varieties. Historically, rice can be considered an indicator crop for successful marronnage in the Guianas. Unraveling local variety names can reveal the history, farming systems, spiritual significance and probably the diversity of rice in Maroon communities. We interviewed 67 rice farmers (96% female), collected over …
The 16th-19th Century Soundtoll Registers Online
Studies of European trade have largely focused on bulk commodities, ignoring minor products. The Danish Soundtoll Registers Online (STRO) document the North-Baltic Seas maritime trade from the 16th century to the 19th. They are an untapped resource to understand the trade of plant products. Here, we present an overview of plants recorded in the STRO from 1497–1857, based on thousands of handwritten vernacular plant name variations in Danish. We f…
Traditional Aucan knowledge on fish and plants eaten by fish along the Tapanahoni River, Suriname
Suriname's freshwater systems are home to a large diversity of (endemic) fish species, and communities of Suriname's interior strongly depend on this diversity for their nutrient intake. However, studies on traditional knowledge of the country's freshwater fish and fish-plant interactions are scarce. Here, we present our findings of a pilot study in the Aucan Maroon community of Diitabiki (Tapanahoni river). We report the species of freshwater fi…
The emperor's herbarium
This paper presents the results of the new interdisciplinary research done on Leonhard Rauwolf's herbarium with plants from the Middle East, which was later owned by Emperor Rudolf II. Using various sources, it examines how the herbarium came into the imperial collections, Early Modern methods of botanical research as described by Rauwolf in his printed travelogue, and how the illustrations for the printed book were produced from the specimens in…
Analysis of historical changes in traditional Chinese medicine based on an Indonesian collection of Chinese materia medica from c. 1870
Differences in vernacular names, plant parts and processing methods between the Westhoff collection and the current Chinese pharmacopoeia illustrate the regional variety of CMM and changes in CMM in the course of time. This work contributes to the understanding of the evolvement of CMM from a historic perspective
Geopolitics of bitterness
Cultural biogeography has proven an interesting concept to reconstruct the dynamics of biocultural interactions through space and time, while herbarium databases have shown to be useful to decipher evolution of local plant knowledge. Tracing the origin of a knowledge is nevertheless a complex adventure that deserves time and interdisciplinary studies
The legacy of traditional rice cultivation by descendants of Indian contract laborers in Suriname
BackgroundSome 35,000 indentured laborers from India were recruited to work on plantations in Suriname between 1868 and 1916. It is likely that most were familiar with farming before they were shipped to this former Dutch colony in the Caribbean. Around 1900, those who did not return received a piece of land where most of them started growing rice as a staple crop. Agronomists characterized their traditional landraces as inferior and infested wit…
What's in a name? Revisiting medicinal and religious plants at an Amazonian market
Background In spite of an increasing number of ethnobotanical market surveys in the past decades, few studies compare changes in plant species trade over time. The open-air market Ver-o-Peso (VOP) in Belém, located near the mouth of the Amazon River in the state of Pará, Brazil, is known for its wide variety of medicinal plants. A survey of VOP was published in 1984, but it remains unknown to what extent its botanical composition changed over 34 …
Alcohol, drugs and sexual abuse in Cameroon's rainforest
Due to global socio-economical and ecological changes, indigenous societies are exposed to an increased risk of alcohol and substance abuse. Most research on this topic has been done on indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, the US, parts of Europe and New Zealand, leaving indigenous communities in other parts of the world largely unrepresented. This study focuses on alcohol and drug consumption among the Baka: a former hunter-gatherer soci…
Marcgrave and Piso's plants for sale
The similarity patterns in floristic composition among Brazilian markets and the HNB indicate the current wider distribution and trade of the species that Marcgrave and Piso described in 1648 in the northeast. Migration of indigenous groups, environmental changes, globalized and homogenous plant trade, and different market survey methods played a role in these results. The HNB is a reference point in time that captures a moment of colonial cultur…
DNA barcoding augments conventional methods for identification of medicinal plant species traded at Tanzanian markets
Use of a tiered approach increases the identification success of medicinal plants sold in local market and corroborates findings that DNA barcoding can elucidate the identity of material that is unidentifiable based on morphology and literature as well as verify or disqualify these identifications. Results of this study can be used as a basis for quantitative market surveys of fragmented herbal medicine and to investigate conservation issues asso…
African Rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud.)
Evidence of a link between taboos and sacrifices and resource scarcity of ritual plants
BACKGROUND: One of the main obstacles for the mainstreaming of religious traditions as tools for the conservation of nature is the limited applicability of research results in this field. We documented two different restrictions implemented by local people (taboos and sacrifices) related to the use of ritual plants in Benin (West Africa) and Gabon (Central Africa). METHODS: To see whether these restrictions reflected plant scarcity from an etic p…
Indigenous Children’s Knowledge About Non-timber Forest Products in Suriname
Childhood and adolescence are important life stages for the acquisition of knowledge about non-timber forest products (NTFPs). We show at which stage in life traditional plant knowledge is learned and analyze whether cross-cultural ethnobotanical knowledge transmission takes place. We evaluate whether the degree of forest dependency influences ethnobotanical knowledge by comparing two indigenous communities in Suriname. Traditional knowledge was …
The use of Amerindian charm plants in the Guianas
BACKGROUND: Magical charm plants to ensure good luck in hunting, fishing, agriculture, love and warfare are known among many Amerindians groups in the Guianas. Documented by anthropologists as social and political markers and exchangeable commodities, these charms have received little attention by ethnobotanists, as they are surrounded by secrecy and are difficult to identify. We compared the use of charm species among indigenous groups in the Gu…
Vernacular dominance in folk taxonomy
Middlemen, traders and vendors adapt their folk classifications to those of the ethnic groups of the region where they conduct their trade, and to the ethnicity of their main customers. The names in the language of the traders are not forgotten, but relegated in favor of the more salient names of the dominant tribe
Use and management of traditional medicinal plants by Maale and Ari ethnic communities in southern Ethiopia
S. dasyphyllum, I. spicata, P. zeylanica, M. tetraphylla, and Oxalis radicosa need to be considered for phytochemical and pharmacological testing to verify their efficacy and determine their dosages. Land use planning and development initiatives in the area and beyond need to sharply focus on strategies that could alleviate the major threats affecting medicinal plant resources in the landscape and encourage their cultivation to enhance their avai…
Famine food of vegetal origin consumed in the Netherlands during World War II
BACKGROUND: Periods of extreme food shortages during war force people to eat food that they normally do not consider edible. The last time that countries in Western Europe experienced severe scarcities was during World War II. The so-called Dutch famine or Hunger Winter (1944-1945) made at least 25,000 victims. The Dutch government took action by opening soup kitchens and providing information on wild plants and other famine food sources in "wart…
Collection and trade of wild-harvested orchids in Nepal
Background Wild orchids are illegally harvested and traded in Nepal for use in local traditional medicine, horticulture, and international trade. This study aims to: 1) identify the diversity of species of wild orchids in trade in Nepal; 2) study the chain of commercialization from collector to client and/or export; 3) map traditional knowledge and medicinal use of orchids; and 4) integrate the collected data to propose a more sustainable approac…
The Future Is in the Younger Generations
In the context of global change, understanding the knowledge and values given to plants is crucial for choosing relevant approaches towards a more sustainable future. Children are central holders of ethnobotanical knowledge, yet they are still under-considered in ethnobotany. Our study explored the medicinal knowledge of children of the Baka, forager-horticulturalists from Cameroon. We assessed the diversity of medicinal plants they know, the dif…
The Trade in African Medicinal Plants in Matonge-Ixelles, Brussels (Belgium)
Maintaining cultural identity and preference to treat cultural bound ailments with herbal medicine are motivations for migrants to continue using medicinal plants from their home country after moving to Europe and the USA. As it is generally easier to import exotic food than herbal medicine, migrants often shift to using species that double as food and medicine. This paper focuses on the trade in African medicinal plants in a Congolese neighborho…
From Bush Mangoes to Bouillon Cubes
Increasing deforestation affects tropical forests, threatening the livelihoods of local populations who subsist on forest resources. The disappearance of wild plants and animals and the increasing influence of market economies affect local health, well-being, and diet. The impact of these changes on wild meat consumption has been well documented, but little attention has been given to wild edible plants, despite their importance as sources of cal…
Plant Knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648)
The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (HNB, 1648) is the most complete treatise on Brazilian flora and fauna created in the seventeenth century. Scientists Marcgrave and Piso depicted hundreds of plants and described uses, vernacular names, and diseases in Dutch Brazil. We aimed to verify whether these plants are still used similarly, using herbarium vouchers and taxonomic literature to identify the species described in the HNB and reviewing historica…
Maroon Women in Suriname and French Guiana
Given the few written documents left behind by those who escaped slavery, the analysis of African agency in the transfer of crops and knowledge in the successful establishment of Maroon communities benefits from other disciplines, such as oral history, ethnobotany and linguistics. In this article, we report the way stories of enslaved women, who escaped in the early periods of slave rebellion in Suriname, live on in the names of specific rice var…
Comparing Apples and Pears
Comparing Apples and Pears: The Hidden Diversity of Central African Bush Mangoes (Irvingiaceae) . The fruits of Irvingiaceae trees, commonly known as “bush mangoes” or “mangues sauvages,” are crucial foods for Central African human populations, as well as local wildlife. Irvingiaceae oil-rich kernels play an important role in local diet, well-being, and livelihood. When collected for sale, they enter the international market of non-timber forest …
The Cultural Importance of Plants in Western African Religions
This paper explores the importance of elements of the natural world, and particularly plants, among people of different religious affiliations in western Africa . Plants play an overriding role in African folk religions, which in turn are closely associated with health practices and influence management decisions concerning natural resources. In spite of the extensive literature documenting ritual plant use, the cultural importance of plants in t…
Herbal bathing
BACKGROUND: Herbal baths play an important role in the traditional health care of Maroons living in the interior of Suriname. However, little is known on the differences in plant ingredients used among and within the Maroon groups. We compared plant use in herbal baths documented for Saramaccan and Aucan Maroons, to see whether similarity in species was related to bath type, ethnic group, or geographical location. We hypothesized that because of …
Evidence in support of the role of disturbance vegetation for women's health and childcare in Western Africa
BACKGROUND: In savannah-dominated Bénin, West Africa, and forest-dominated Gabon, Central Africa, plants are a major source of healthcare for women and children. Due to this high demand and the reliance on wild populations as sources for medicinal plants, overharvesting of African medicinal plants is a common concern. Few studies in Western Africa, however, have assessed variations in harvest patterns across different ecological zones and within …
The diverse uses of fish-poison plants in Northwest Guyana
Alcohol, drugs and sexual abuse in Cameroon's rainforest
Due to global socio-economical and ecological changes, indigenous societies are exposed to an increased risk of alcohol and substance abuse. Most research on this topic has been done on indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, the US, parts of Europe and New Zealand, leaving indigenous communities in other parts of the world largely unrepresented. This study focuses on alcohol and drug consumption among the Baka: a former hunter-gatherer soci…
The Reinvention of Household Medicine by Enslaved Africans in Suriname
Journal Article The Reinvention of Household Medicine by Enslaved Africans in Suriname Get access Tinde van Andel Tinde van Andel *Naturalis Biodiversity Center / Leiden University, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 29, Issue 4, November 2016, Pages 676–694, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/h…
Vernacular Names of Traditional Rice Varieties Reveal the Unique History of Maroons in Suriname and French Guiana
Rice is a keystone crop in all Maroon communities in Suriname and French Guyana today and they cultivate hundreds of traditional varieties. Historically, rice can be considered an indicator crop for successful marronnage in the Guianas. Unraveling local variety names can reveal the history, farming systems, spiritual significance and probably the diversity of rice in Maroon communities. We interviewed 67 rice farmers (96% female), collected over …
The legacy of traditional rice cultivation by descendants of Indian contract laborers in Suriname
BackgroundSome 35,000 indentured laborers from India were recruited to work on plantations in Suriname between 1868 and 1916. It is likely that most were familiar with farming before they were shipped to this former Dutch colony in the Caribbean. Around 1900, those who did not return received a piece of land where most of them started growing rice as a staple crop. Agronomists characterized their traditional landraces as inferior and infested wit…
What's in a name? Revisiting medicinal and religious plants at an Amazonian market
Background In spite of an increasing number of ethnobotanical market surveys in the past decades, few studies compare changes in plant species trade over time. The open-air market Ver-o-Peso (VOP) in Belém, located near the mouth of the Amazon River in the state of Pará, Brazil, is known for its wide variety of medicinal plants. A survey of VOP was published in 1984, but it remains unknown to what extent its botanical composition changed over 34 …
Ethnobotany of the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy-Güicán
BACKGROUND: The Sierra Nevada del Cocuy-Güicán in the Colombian Andes is protected as a National Natural Park since 1977 because of its fragile páramo ecosystems, extraordinary biodiversity, high plant endemism, and function as water reservoir. The vegetation on this mountain is threatened by expanding agriculture, deforestation, tourism, and climate change. We present an ethnobotanical inventory among local farmer communities and discuss the eff…
Sustainability issues of commercial non-timber forest product extraction in West Suriname
BACKGROUND: Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) have been traded for millennia by indigenous communities. Current increased demands driven by globalisation, however, put more pressure on local harvesters and their surrounding ecosystems. The safeguarding of indigenous access rights to harvesting grounds is needed, either through communal land titles or collaborative management agreements, both to secure prior indigenous rights and to minimise furt…
Palaeolithic landscapes of Europe and environs, 150,000-25,000 years ago
The diverse uses of fish-poison plants in Northwest Guyana
The Use of Hemiepiphytes as Craft Fibres by Indigenous Communities in the Colombian Amazon
Aerial roots of hemiepiphytes are used throughout the Amazon Basin for house construction, basketry, traps and furniture. Here we describe how 15 species of hemiepiphytes are extracted by six indigenous groups in the Colombian Amazon for traditional artefacts, commercial crafts and as raw material for the furniture industry. Indigenous classification systems, use preferences, and the influence of the craft trade on indigenous livelihoods are disc…
The Medicinal Plant Trade in Suriname
Medicinal plant markets provide not only a snapshot of a country’s medicinal flora, but also of the importance of herbal medicine among its inhabitants and their concerns about health and illness. During a market survey in 2006, we collected data on the diversity, source, and volume of plants being sold and exported, and the preferences of urban consumers in Suriname. More than 245 species of medicinal plants were sold at the markets of Paramarib…
Dry sex in Suriname
Bathe the baby to make it strong and healthy
Why Surinamese migrants in the Netherlands continue to use medicinal herbs from their home country
African Rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud.)
In search of the perfect aphrodisiac
Ghana's herbal market
Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora
Introduction Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record diversity of these forests have hampered an understanding of basinwide patterns. To overcome this obstacle, we compiled and standardized species-level data on more than half a million trees in 1170 plots sampling all major lowland forest types to explore patterns of commo…
Collection and trade of wild-harvested orchids in Nepal
Background Wild orchids are illegally harvested and traded in Nepal for use in local traditional medicine, horticulture, and international trade. This study aims to: 1) identify the diversity of species of wild orchids in trade in Nepal; 2) study the chain of commercialization from collector to client and/or export; 3) map traditional knowledge and medicinal use of orchids; and 4) integrate the collected data to propose a more sustainable approac…
Ethnobotany of Wild and Semi-Wild Edible Fruit Species used by Maale and Ari Ethnic Communities in Southern Ethiopia
Wild and semi-wild tree fruit species are important resources in combating food insecurity and providing supplementary diet to rural people. We studied wild and semi-wild fruit species used by the Maale and Ari communities in southern Ethiopia and the conservation status of these resources. We used focus group discussions (n = 18) and individual interviews (n = 144) in three rural kebeles. In total, the two communities used 52 species of wild and…
Ritual uses of palms in traditional medicine in sub-Saharan Africa
Palms (Arecaceae) are prominent elements in African traditional medicines. It is, however, a challenge to find detailed information on the ritual use of palms, which are an inextricable part of African medicinal and spiritual systems. This work reviews ritual uses of palms within African ethnomedicine. We studied over 200 publications on uses of African palms and found information about ritual uses in 26 of them. At least 12 palm species in sub-S…
Medicinal plants used for menstrual disorders in Latin America, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia and their uterine properties
Quantifying the domestic market in herbal medicine in Benin, West Africa
Ethnoveterinary medicinal plants used by the Maale and Ari ethnic communities in southern Ethiopia
Volume, value and floristic diversity of Gabon׳s medicinal plant markets
Use and management of traditional medicinal plants by Maale and Ari ethnic communities in southern Ethiopia
S. dasyphyllum, I. spicata, P. zeylanica, M. tetraphylla, and Oxalis radicosa need to be considered for phytochemical and pharmacological testing to verify their efficacy and determine their dosages. Land use planning and development initiatives in the area and beyond need to sharply focus on strategies that could alleviate the major threats affecting medicinal plant resources in the landscape and encourage their cultivation to enhance their avai…
Evidence in support of the role of disturbance vegetation for women's health and childcare in Western Africa
BACKGROUND: In savannah-dominated Bénin, West Africa, and forest-dominated Gabon, Central Africa, plants are a major source of healthcare for women and children. Due to this high demand and the reliance on wild populations as sources for medicinal plants, overharvesting of African medicinal plants is a common concern. Few studies in Western Africa, however, have assessed variations in harvest patterns across different ecological zones and within …
The medicine from behind”
The Reinvention of Household Medicine by Enslaved Africans in Suriname
Journal Article The Reinvention of Household Medicine by Enslaved Africans in Suriname Get access Tinde van Andel Tinde van Andel *Naturalis Biodiversity Center / Leiden University, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 29, Issue 4, November 2016, Pages 676–694, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/h…
Evidence of a link between taboos and sacrifices and resource scarcity of ritual plants
BACKGROUND: One of the main obstacles for the mainstreaming of religious traditions as tools for the conservation of nature is the limited applicability of research results in this field. We documented two different restrictions implemented by local people (taboos and sacrifices) related to the use of ritual plants in Benin (West Africa) and Gabon (Central Africa). METHODS: To see whether these restrictions reflected plant scarcity from an etic p…
The use of Amerindian charm plants in the Guianas
BACKGROUND: Magical charm plants to ensure good luck in hunting, fishing, agriculture, love and warfare are known among many Amerindians groups in the Guianas. Documented by anthropologists as social and political markers and exchangeable commodities, these charms have received little attention by ethnobotanists, as they are surrounded by secrecy and are difficult to identify. We compared the use of charm species among indigenous groups in the Gu…
Vernacular dominance in folk taxonomy
Middlemen, traders and vendors adapt their folk classifications to those of the ethnic groups of the region where they conduct their trade, and to the ethnicity of their main customers. The names in the language of the traders are not forgotten, but relegated in favor of the more salient names of the dominant tribe
Geography (58 obras) · Biology (56 obras) · Ecology (45 obras) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (38 obras) · Medicinal plants (34 obras) · Medicine (31 obras) · Ethnobotany (30 obras) · Traditional medicine (29 obras) · Agroforestry (27 obras) · African Botany and Ecology Studies (23 obras)