M Kujawska
Biographic Data
| ID | 6867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Kujawska |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kujawska |
| SIGNATURE | KUJAWSKA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lodz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5643-3417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Wild-grown medicinal plants used by the Asháninka people from the Tambo River, Peruvian Amazonia
Food habits related to wild edible plants of the Paraguayan people in the Atlantic Forest
The ecological, cultural, and historical complexity of the Atlantic Forest of the Upper Paraná begs a closer look at the local food habits. This is the first study on the current use of wild edible plants by the Paraguayan Mestizo people, who live as migrants in Misiones, Argentina, on the Argentinean-Paraguayan borderland. This study documents 49 wild edible plants, of which wild fruits are the most appreciated food. It finds little connection b…
The Relation Between Ashaninka Amazonian Society and Cultivated Acanthaceae Plants
The article discusses the relationships between Ashaninka people from Peruvian Amazonia and the ibinishi ethnotaxon corresponding to several species from the Acanthaceae family cultivated in Ashaninka home gardens. The information on cultivated Acanthaceae comes from 59 gardens in 12 native communities along the Tambo River valley in Peruvian Upper Amazonia. The data were interpreted with a more-than-utility theoretical-methodological approach. I…
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina
Migrants’ home gardens may be created from elements of both old and new landscapes. We assume that medicinal plant assemblages in migrants’ gardens are shaped by plant diversity and availability, therapeutic needs, and heritagization processes. Which of the factors prevail: those related to biodiversity and ecology, epidemiology, or heritage and memory? In this paper we offer new knowledge on the garden landscapes of the Global South. The researc…
Dysphania schraderiana (Schult.) Mosyakin & Clemants – An overlooked medicinal and ritual plant used in Poland
D. schraderiana is a rare case of a non-native plant traditionally used within an area of Europe but previously nearly overlooked in European ethnobotanical literature. Historical uses of Dysphania spp. in other areas of Poland and former Poland (now western Ukraine) suggest that the genus was used more widely in regions beyond the one studied. However, a very compact distribution of use suggests that D. schraderiana may have been brought to SE P…
The use of medicinal plants by Paraguayan migrants in the Atlantic Forest of Misiones, Argentina, is based on Guaraní tradition, colonial and current plant knowledge
This study was carried out in a geographic area with a long-standing tradition of Guaraní medicine. Paraguayan migrants in Misiones integrate pre-Hispanic Guaraní names and uses of plants and old humoral concepts with current adaptation of plants to meet new health challenges. Several of the uses described in early colonial times are still practiced, giving a solid background for in-depth studies of the local pharmacopoeia
Local ecological knowledge and resilience of ethnomedical systems in a changing world – South American perspectives
"If there's no dill, the taste isn't right!" A comparison of food plant knowledge between Polish and German descendants in the context of an imagined culinary community in Brazil
Food is a cultural marker investigated by several fields of knowledge. The ecological approach to food plants used in human societies can give us insights into food biodiversity and its connection to cultural identity. In our work, we investigate plant knowledge as part of an imagined culinary community among Polish and German descendants in Santa Catarina, Brazil. We interviewed Polish and German descendants and used an ecological analytical app…
The Edibility Approach, Chemical Ecology and Relationality. Methodological and Ethnobotanical Contributions
This paper combines ethnographic and ethnobotanical fieldwork with the edibility approach (EA), chemical ecology and Ingold’s ontology of dwelling. The EA aims to “push harder onto and through the boundaries between edible plants and the human-animals that eat them to consider the outcomes produced as a result of these interacting materials” (Attala 2017, 130). This approach places ingestion in the light of multispecies entanglement. As proposed …
From medicinal plant to noxious weed: Bryonia alba L. (Cucurbitaceae) in northern and eastern Europe
INTRODUCTION: White bryony, Bryonia alba L., is a relatively little known plant in the history of folk medicine and folk botany in eastern and northern Europe. The main aim of this article is to bring together data about Bryonia alba and to summarise its cultural history and folk botanical importance in eastern and northern Europe. Nowadays, this species is considered at best as an ornamental plant, and at worst as a noxious weed. However, ethnog…
Different Systems of Knowledge Found in the Reproductive Health of Ashaninka Women from the Peruvian Amazon
Indigenous Ashaninka people from the Peruvian Amazon operate within their communal reserve and autonomous native communities, where biomedical health posts and biomedical practitioners are present. This article analyses how the two systems of knowledge and practice i.e., indigenous medicine and biomedicine, coexist in the Ashaninka territory and how they are articulated in childbirth, birth control and other aspects of reproductive health. Their …
Urban Allotment Gardens in Poland: Implications for Botanical and Landscape Diversity
Polish allotment gardeners, who cultivate publicly owned urban space, constitute the largest group of city land managers in the country. Although research on allotment gardens in Poland exists, detailed studies about the uses of cultivated plants are absent. The aims of this study are to document plant richness and diversity of allotment-garden use and to explore the (changing) purpose of such gardens. Interviews, guided walks, and plant inventor…
Effects of Landscape Structure on Medicinal Plant Richness in Home Gardens: Evidence for the Environmental Scarcity Compensation Hypothesis
Our research involves of how Paraguayan migrants who are living in Misiones, Argentina, manage medicinal plants in home gardens, and how this practice can be related to the landscape. We examine the relationship between the richness of home garden medicinal plants and landscape variables (e.g., distance to the forest) by applying PLS analysis, which combines principal component analysis with linear regression. We surveyed 60 home gardens localize…
Nchatoshi, ivenki, ivinishi – rośliny z lasu i ogrodu. Wprowadzenie do problematyki badań z zakresu etnobotaniki medycznej wśród Indian Asháninka z Amazonii peruwiańskiej
Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, DoÅ wiadczenia » 2017 » Numer 3/2017 » Inchatoshi, ivenki, ivinishi – roÅ liny z lasu i ogrodu. Wprowadzenie do problematyki badaÅ z zakresu etnobotaniki medycznej wÅ ród Indian Asháninka z Amazonii peruwiaÅ skiej A A A
Cognition, culture and utility: Plant classification by Paraguayan immigrant farmers in Misiones, Argentina
Culturally constructed use patterns ultimately override morphological variables in rural Paraguayans' ethnobotanical classification
Fischer's Plants in folk beliefs and customs: A previously unknown contribution to the ethnobotany of the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian borderland
BACKGROUND: 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 were collected by Adam Fischer, a Polish ethnographer from Lviv, in the 1930s. These data were originally gathered for publication in the first part of the Lexicon of Slavic beliefs and customs, dedicated to plant uses in tradition…
Forms of medical pluralism among the Polish Community in Misiones, Argentina
The paper addresses forms of medical pluralism, studied from the microsocial perspective, among the Polish community in Misiones, Argentina. It shows different attitudes to health treatment within the field of home medicine, local non-biomedical specialists and biomedicine. It points out the relationship between the diversity of offers of medical assistance and community members' negotiations between various medical approaches. It also identifies…
Management of medicinally useful plants by European migrants in South America
Plants Used as Food and Medicine by Polish Migrants in Misiones, Argentina
In this article we discuss the importance of food plants, both introduced and native, in the pharmacopoeia of the Polish community in Misiones, Argentina. Food species constitute a relevant portion of all botanicals used by Polish settlers in home therapies (41%), while introduced food species prevail among the continued herbal remedies used by the study group. We explain this pattern of use by food plant availability, their versatility as reflec…
Fischer's Lexicon of Slavic beliefs and customs: A previously unknown contribution to the ethnobotany of Ukraine and Poland
BackgroundHistorical ethnobotanical studies are important, even if they are only descriptive, because they help to throw light on the missing chains needed for diachronic analysis. However, the documentation of traditional uses of plants in some countries, e.g. Ukraine, is still fragmentary. The aim of this contribution is to fill the gap and present a portion of the data set, from western Ukraine, which was collected by Adam Fischer, a Polish et…
Wild Edible Plants Used by the Polish Community in Misiones, Argentina
We studied the cultural significance of wild edible plants for Eastern European migrants who settled in rural subtropical areas of South America. In 50 interviews with Polish migrants and their descendants in northern Misiones, Argentina, we recorded the use of 41 botanical species and two mushroom taxa. Different cultural significance indices were applied and sociodemographic factors such as gender, age and origin were addressed. Out of the ten …
Phytotherapy of Polish migrants in Misiones, Argentina: Legacy and acquired plant species
All Useful Plants Have Not Only Identities, but Stories: The Mythical Origins of the Peach Palm (Bactris Gasipaes Kunth) According to the Peruvian Asháninka
In this paper we present a myth about the origins of the peach palm (Bactris gasipaes Kunth), recorded during a research project dedicated to landscape domestication and the management of palms by the Asháninka people of Amazonian Peru.This myth is most likely the outcome of cross-fertilization between European Christian and Amerindian traditions during colonial times, but which must have undergone significant changes during the 'indianization' p…
Wild Edible Plants Used by the Polish Community in Misiones, Argentina
We studied the cultural significance of wild edible plants for Eastern European migrants who settled in rural subtropical areas of South America. In 50 interviews with Polish migrants and their descendants in northern Misiones, Argentina, we recorded the use of 41 botanical species and two mushroom taxa. Different cultural significance indices were applied and sociodemographic factors such as gender, age and origin were addressed. Out of the ten …
Fischer's Lexicon of Slavic beliefs and customs: A previously unknown contribution to the ethnobotany of Ukraine and Poland
BackgroundHistorical ethnobotanical studies are important, even if they are only descriptive, because they help to throw light on the missing chains needed for diachronic analysis. However, the documentation of traditional uses of plants in some countries, e.g. Ukraine, is still fragmentary. The aim of this contribution is to fill the gap and present a portion of the data set, from western Ukraine, which was collected by Adam Fischer, a Polish et…
Local ecological knowledge and resilience of ethnomedical systems in a changing world – South American perspectives
Fischer's Plants in folk beliefs and customs: A previously unknown contribution to the ethnobotany of the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian borderland
BACKGROUND: 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 were collected by Adam Fischer, a Polish ethnographer from Lviv, in the 1930s. These data were originally gathered for publication in the first part of the Lexicon of Slavic beliefs and customs, dedicated to plant uses in tradition…
Effects of Landscape Structure on Medicinal Plant Richness in Home Gardens: Evidence for the Environmental Scarcity Compensation Hypothesis
Our research involves of how Paraguayan migrants who are living in Misiones, Argentina, manage medicinal plants in home gardens, and how this practice can be related to the landscape. We examine the relationship between the richness of home garden medicinal plants and landscape variables (e.g., distance to the forest) by applying PLS analysis, which combines principal component analysis with linear regression. We surveyed 60 home gardens localize…
All Useful Plants Have Not Only Identities, but Stories: The Mythical Origins of the Peach Palm (Bactris Gasipaes Kunth) According to the Peruvian Asháninka
In this paper we present a myth about the origins of the peach palm (Bactris gasipaes Kunth), recorded during a research project dedicated to landscape domestication and the management of palms by the Asháninka people of Amazonian Peru.This myth is most likely the outcome of cross-fertilization between European Christian and Amerindian traditions during colonial times, but which must have undergone significant changes during the 'indianization' p…
"If there's no dill, the taste isn't right!" A comparison of food plant knowledge between Polish and German descendants in the context of an imagined culinary community in Brazil
Food is a cultural marker investigated by several fields of knowledge. The ecological approach to food plants used in human societies can give us insights into food biodiversity and its connection to cultural identity. In our work, we investigate plant knowledge as part of an imagined culinary community among Polish and German descendants in Santa Catarina, Brazil. We interviewed Polish and German descendants and used an ecological analytical app…
From medicinal plant to noxious weed: Bryonia alba L. (Cucurbitaceae) in northern and eastern Europe
INTRODUCTION: White bryony, Bryonia alba L., is a relatively little known plant in the history of folk medicine and folk botany in eastern and northern Europe. The main aim of this article is to bring together data about Bryonia alba and to summarise its cultural history and folk botanical importance in eastern and northern Europe. Nowadays, this species is considered at best as an ornamental plant, and at worst as a noxious weed. However, ethnog…
Cognition, culture and utility: Plant classification by Paraguayan immigrant farmers in Misiones, Argentina
Culturally constructed use patterns ultimately override morphological variables in rural Paraguayans' ethnobotanical classification
The Relation Between Ashaninka Amazonian Society and Cultivated Acanthaceae Plants
The article discusses the relationships between Ashaninka people from Peruvian Amazonia and the ibinishi ethnotaxon corresponding to several species from the Acanthaceae family cultivated in Ashaninka home gardens. The information on cultivated Acanthaceae comes from 59 gardens in 12 native communities along the Tambo River valley in Peruvian Upper Amazonia. The data were interpreted with a more-than-utility theoretical-methodological approach. I…
The Edibility Approach, Chemical Ecology and Relationality. Methodological and Ethnobotanical Contributions
This paper combines ethnographic and ethnobotanical fieldwork with the edibility approach (EA), chemical ecology and Ingold’s ontology of dwelling. The EA aims to “push harder onto and through the boundaries between edible plants and the human-animals that eat them to consider the outcomes produced as a result of these interacting materials” (Attala 2017, 130). This approach places ingestion in the light of multispecies entanglement. As proposed …
Different Systems of Knowledge Found in the Reproductive Health of Ashaninka Women from the Peruvian Amazon
Indigenous Ashaninka people from the Peruvian Amazon operate within their communal reserve and autonomous native communities, where biomedical health posts and biomedical practitioners are present. This article analyses how the two systems of knowledge and practice i.e., indigenous medicine and biomedicine, coexist in the Ashaninka territory and how they are articulated in childbirth, birth control and other aspects of reproductive health. Their …
Forms of medical pluralism among the Polish Community in Misiones, Argentina
The paper addresses forms of medical pluralism, studied from the microsocial perspective, among the Polish community in Misiones, Argentina. It shows different attitudes to health treatment within the field of home medicine, local non-biomedical specialists and biomedicine. It points out the relationship between the diversity of offers of medical assistance and community members' negotiations between various medical approaches. It also identifies…
Phytotherapy of Polish migrants in Misiones, Argentina: Legacy and acquired plant species
All Useful Plants Have Not Only Identities, but Stories: The Mythical Origins of the Peach Palm (Bactris Gasipaes Kunth) According to the Peruvian Asháninka
In this paper we present a myth about the origins of the peach palm (Bactris gasipaes Kunth), recorded during a research project dedicated to landscape domestication and the management of palms by the Asháninka people of Amazonian Peru.This myth is most likely the outcome of cross-fertilization between European Christian and Amerindian traditions during colonial times, but which must have undergone significant changes during the 'indianization' p…
Management of medicinally useful plants by European migrants in South America
Plants Used as Food and Medicine by Polish Migrants in Misiones, Argentina
In this article we discuss the importance of food plants, both introduced and native, in the pharmacopoeia of the Polish community in Misiones, Argentina. Food species constitute a relevant portion of all botanicals used by Polish settlers in home therapies (41%), while introduced food species prevail among the continued herbal remedies used by the study group. We explain this pattern of use by food plant availability, their versatility as reflec…
Fischer's Lexicon of Slavic beliefs and customs: A previously unknown contribution to the ethnobotany of Ukraine and Poland
BackgroundHistorical ethnobotanical studies are important, even if they are only descriptive, because they help to throw light on the missing chains needed for diachronic analysis. However, the documentation of traditional uses of plants in some countries, e.g. Ukraine, is still fragmentary. The aim of this contribution is to fill the gap and present a portion of the data set, from western Ukraine, which was collected by Adam Fischer, a Polish et…
Wild Edible Plants Used by the Polish Community in Misiones, Argentina
We studied the cultural significance of wild edible plants for Eastern European migrants who settled in rural subtropical areas of South America. In 50 interviews with Polish migrants and their descendants in northern Misiones, Argentina, we recorded the use of 41 botanical species and two mushroom taxa. Different cultural significance indices were applied and sociodemographic factors such as gender, age and origin were addressed. Out of the ten …
Forms of medical pluralism among the Polish Community in Misiones, Argentina
The paper addresses forms of medical pluralism, studied from the microsocial perspective, among the Polish community in Misiones, Argentina. It shows different attitudes to health treatment within the field of home medicine, local non-biomedical specialists and biomedicine. It points out the relationship between the diversity of offers of medical assistance and community members' negotiations between various medical approaches. It also identifies…
Nchatoshi, ivenki, ivinishi – rośliny z lasu i ogrodu. Wprowadzenie do problematyki badań z zakresu etnobotaniki medycznej wśród Indian Asháninka z Amazonii peruwiańskiej
Etnografia. Praktyki, Teorie, DoÅ wiadczenia » 2017 » Numer 3/2017 » Inchatoshi, ivenki, ivinishi – roÅ liny z lasu i ogrodu. Wprowadzenie do problematyki badaÅ z zakresu etnobotaniki medycznej wÅ ród Indian Asháninka z Amazonii peruwiaÅ skiej A A A
Cognition, culture and utility: Plant classification by Paraguayan immigrant farmers in Misiones, Argentina
Culturally constructed use patterns ultimately override morphological variables in rural Paraguayans' ethnobotanical classification
Fischer's Plants in folk beliefs and customs: A previously unknown contribution to the ethnobotany of the Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian borderland
BACKGROUND: 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 were collected by Adam Fischer, a Polish ethnographer from Lviv, in the 1930s. These data were originally gathered for publication in the first part of the Lexicon of Slavic beliefs and customs, dedicated to plant uses in tradition…
Urban Allotment Gardens in Poland: Implications for Botanical and Landscape Diversity
Polish allotment gardeners, who cultivate publicly owned urban space, constitute the largest group of city land managers in the country. Although research on allotment gardens in Poland exists, detailed studies about the uses of cultivated plants are absent. The aims of this study are to document plant richness and diversity of allotment-garden use and to explore the (changing) purpose of such gardens. Interviews, guided walks, and plant inventor…
Effects of Landscape Structure on Medicinal Plant Richness in Home Gardens: Evidence for the Environmental Scarcity Compensation Hypothesis
Our research involves of how Paraguayan migrants who are living in Misiones, Argentina, manage medicinal plants in home gardens, and how this practice can be related to the landscape. We examine the relationship between the richness of home garden medicinal plants and landscape variables (e.g., distance to the forest) by applying PLS analysis, which combines principal component analysis with linear regression. We surveyed 60 home gardens localize…
From medicinal plant to noxious weed: Bryonia alba L. (Cucurbitaceae) in northern and eastern Europe
INTRODUCTION: White bryony, Bryonia alba L., is a relatively little known plant in the history of folk medicine and folk botany in eastern and northern Europe. The main aim of this article is to bring together data about Bryonia alba and to summarise its cultural history and folk botanical importance in eastern and northern Europe. Nowadays, this species is considered at best as an ornamental plant, and at worst as a noxious weed. However, ethnog…
Different Systems of Knowledge Found in the Reproductive Health of Ashaninka Women from the Peruvian Amazon
Indigenous Ashaninka people from the Peruvian Amazon operate within their communal reserve and autonomous native communities, where biomedical health posts and biomedical practitioners are present. This article analyses how the two systems of knowledge and practice i.e., indigenous medicine and biomedicine, coexist in the Ashaninka territory and how they are articulated in childbirth, birth control and other aspects of reproductive health. Their …
The Edibility Approach, Chemical Ecology and Relationality. Methodological and Ethnobotanical Contributions
This paper combines ethnographic and ethnobotanical fieldwork with the edibility approach (EA), chemical ecology and Ingold’s ontology of dwelling. The EA aims to “push harder onto and through the boundaries between edible plants and the human-animals that eat them to consider the outcomes produced as a result of these interacting materials” (Attala 2017, 130). This approach places ingestion in the light of multispecies entanglement. As proposed …
"If there's no dill, the taste isn't right!" A comparison of food plant knowledge between Polish and German descendants in the context of an imagined culinary community in Brazil
Food is a cultural marker investigated by several fields of knowledge. The ecological approach to food plants used in human societies can give us insights into food biodiversity and its connection to cultural identity. In our work, we investigate plant knowledge as part of an imagined culinary community among Polish and German descendants in Santa Catarina, Brazil. We interviewed Polish and German descendants and used an ecological analytical app…
Dysphania schraderiana (Schult.) Mosyakin & Clemants – An overlooked medicinal and ritual plant used in Poland
D. schraderiana is a rare case of a non-native plant traditionally used within an area of Europe but previously nearly overlooked in European ethnobotanical literature. Historical uses of Dysphania spp. in other areas of Poland and former Poland (now western Ukraine) suggest that the genus was used more widely in regions beyond the one studied. However, a very compact distribution of use suggests that D. schraderiana may have been brought to SE P…
The use of medicinal plants by Paraguayan migrants in the Atlantic Forest of Misiones, Argentina, is based on Guaraní tradition, colonial and current plant knowledge
This study was carried out in a geographic area with a long-standing tradition of Guaraní medicine. Paraguayan migrants in Misiones integrate pre-Hispanic Guaraní names and uses of plants and old humoral concepts with current adaptation of plants to meet new health challenges. Several of the uses described in early colonial times are still practiced, giving a solid background for in-depth studies of the local pharmacopoeia
Local ecological knowledge and resilience of ethnomedical systems in a changing world – South American perspectives
The Relation Between Ashaninka Amazonian Society and Cultivated Acanthaceae Plants
The article discusses the relationships between Ashaninka people from Peruvian Amazonia and the ibinishi ethnotaxon corresponding to several species from the Acanthaceae family cultivated in Ashaninka home gardens. The information on cultivated Acanthaceae comes from 59 gardens in 12 native communities along the Tambo River valley in Peruvian Upper Amazonia. The data were interpreted with a more-than-utility theoretical-methodological approach. I…
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina
Migrants’ home gardens may be created from elements of both old and new landscapes. We assume that medicinal plant assemblages in migrants’ gardens are shaped by plant diversity and availability, therapeutic needs, and heritagization processes. Which of the factors prevail: those related to biodiversity and ecology, epidemiology, or heritage and memory? In this paper we offer new knowledge on the garden landscapes of the Global South. The researc…
Wild-grown medicinal plants used by the Asháninka people from the Tambo River, Peruvian Amazonia
Food habits related to wild edible plants of the Paraguayan people in the Atlantic Forest
The ecological, cultural, and historical complexity of the Atlantic Forest of the Upper Paraná begs a closer look at the local food habits. This is the first study on the current use of wild edible plants by the Paraguayan Mestizo people, who live as migrants in Misiones, Argentina, on the Argentinean-Paraguayan borderland. This study documents 49 wild edible plants, of which wild fruits are the most appreciated food. It finds little connection b…
Geography (20 works) · Biology (18 works) · Ecology (15 works) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (15 works) · Medicinal plants (13 works) · Ethnobotany (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · Traditional medicine (5 works)