Amélia Frazão-Moreira
Biographic Data
| ID | 73001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amélia Frazão-Moreira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amélia |
| FAMILY NAME | Frazão-Moreira |
| SIGNATURE | FRAZÃO-MOREIRA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Research in Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7757-545X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A comprehensive checklist of the wild edible plants of Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Wild edible plants (WEP) are among the most important non-timber forest products, contributing both to local food security and to the generation of income for families. The aim of this study is to present a comprehensive dataset of WEP in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, including species identification, characterization of uses, bioecology, and local common names, as well as an associated image dataset documenting the species and their edible parts. …
Diversity of wild edible plants of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa): Traditional uses and trade
In Guinea-Bissau, WEPs play a key role in the traditional diet of local communities, especially when crops are scarce, thus ensuring food security, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. The sustainable use of WEPs can contribute to the well-being of local populations and to the conservation of the natural resources and ecosystems in this West African country
Entre favas e ovelhas: Categorias do mundo adulto apreendidas pelas crianças , numa aldeia do Alto Douro
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‘Among predators’: The place of humans, Iberian lynx and other wild carnivores
Using an ethnoecological approach we studied perceptions, empirical classifications and practices towards wild predators in Portuguese protected areas. Results from 131 semi-structured interviews allowed the analysis of classification, criteria used by key actors and the understanding of an emic perspective on the differentiation of the natural world. Further analysis and data from observation reveal local ecological knowledge associated with cha…
Gendered plants and plant categorization by gender: Classificatory and “storied” knowledge in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal
Background: An anthropomorphizing process arises out of classification systems, whereby analogy is drawn between the social differences of gender and the morphological and biological characteristics used to designate or classify plants. On the other side, it is observed that men and women categorize plants differently on the basis of their practices and knowledge.This paper addresses two assumptions: the consistent cognitive mechanisms of attribu…
Breaking Through Disciplinary Barriers: Human-Wildlife Interactions and Multispecies Ethnography
One of the main challenges when integrating biological and social perspectives in primatology is overcoming interdisciplinary barriers. Unfamiliarity with subject-specific theory and language, distinct disciplinary-bound approaches to research, and academic boundaries aimed at "preserving the integrity" of subject disciplines can hinder developments in interdisciplinary research. With growing interest in how humans and other primates share landsc…
The return of the Iberian lynx to Portugal: Local Voices
BACKGROUND: Ethnographic research can help to establish dialog between conservationists and local people in reintroduction areas. Considering that predator reintroductions may cause local resistance, we assessed attitudes of different key actor profiles to the return of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) to Portugal before reintroduction started in 2015. We aimed to characterize a social context from an ethnoecological perspective, including factor…
Relating to the wild: Key actors’ values and concerns about lynx reintroduction
Across disciplinary boundaries: Remembering Cláudia Sousa
This dossier pays homage to the primatologist Cláudia Sousa and is the result of a seminar held in her memory. It collates the presentations of Cláudia’s colleagues on themes that demonstrate not only the importance of her work but also the legacy that she left. It highlights the potential for novel ways to bring together social and human sciences and biological sciences in the field of anthropology
Challenging approaches and crossovers in anthropology and conservation in Guinea-Bissau
This communication presents research conducted according to the theoretical viewpoint held passionately by Cláudia Sousa: the need for an interdisciplinary perspective between anthropology, primatology and conservation. Only then can a holistic understanding of human and chimpanzee interactions be achieved that includes local knowledge, and involves local populations in biodiversity conservation
The (In)visibility of the Iberian Lynx
Not much is known about how the cultural image of predators has been constructed in Western contexts and changed through time. This article reviews representations of lynx in Western Europe. A ‘cultural map’ of lynx in historical contexts is presented, and the ‘social visibility’ of the Iberian lynx in Portugal explored. Since prehistoric times the lynx has been an inspiration, an amulet, a creature gifted with extraordinary capacities but also a…
The symbolic efficacy of medicinal plants: Practices, knowledge, and religious beliefs amongst the Nalu healers of Guinea-Bissau
BACKGROUND: In attempting to understand how the use of medicinal plants is symbolically valued and transformed according to specific cosmologies, we gain valuable insight into the ethnopharmacologial practices, in terms of the major role played by healers, as custodians of local ethnobotanical knowledge, but also as ritual masters. Thus, the goal of this paper is to understand how medicinal plants are used differently depending on a combination b…
Living with the Beast: Wolves and Humans through Portuguese Literature
This paper explores representations of wolves in Portuguese literature using an anthropological framework to analyze perceptions, beliefs, knowledge, and practices. From a literary corpus compilation, 262 excerpts from 68 works that made reference to wolves were classified by grid analysis into 12 categories, encompassing the diversity of meanings attributed to these animals. Among wild carnivores, the wolf appears most frequently in the literary…
Ethnobiological research and ethnographic challenges in the “ecological era”
Local knowledge and the ecological practices have been important matters in the study of the ways that people make places and feel the world. Nowadays, in the “ecological era,” this subject gained new prominence. However, different dynamics emerge that, in some way, can seem epistemologically ambiguous. Ethnobiological studies, heirs of linguistic and cognitive anthropology, are permeable to deductive logics and etic approaches. The ethnoecologic…
Importance of local knowledge in plant resources management and conservation in two protected areas from Trás-os-Montes, Portugal
Many European protected areas were legally created to preserve and maintain biological diversity, unique natural features and associated cultural heritage. Built over centuries as a result of geographical and historical factors interacting with human activity, these territories are reservoirs of resources, practices and knowledge that have been the essential basis of their creation. Under social and economical transformations several components o…
Conocimientos acerca de plantas en la nueva ruralidad. Cambio social y agro ecología en el Parque Natural de Montesinho (Portugal)
En las últimas décadas, las regiones montañosas de Portugal han sufrido transformaciones económicas y una intensa disminución de la población que conllevaran modificaciones visibles de los agroecosistemas y en consecuencia del paisaje. Un estudio de caso, conducido en un espacio natural protegido de la provincia portuguesa de Trás-os-Montes (2006-2007) - el Parque Natural de Montesinho - y del ámbito del proyecto de investigación ";Etnobotãnica d…
Amélia Frazão-Moreira
Nalu botanic classifications: Consensus and Flexibility
Neste artigo aborda-se a questão da construção de classificações do mundo natural, concretamente do universo vegetal, e da sua evocação nas práticas sociais. Partindo das classificações botânicas dos nalu da Guiné-Bissau discute-se o modelo taxonómico hierárquico, fundamento de muitas das análises etnobiológicas, e faz-se referência à discussão do carácter utilitário das classificações. Os processos de denominação, identificação e distinção das p…
Breaking Through Disciplinary Barriers: Human-Wildlife Interactions and Multispecies Ethnography
One of the main challenges when integrating biological and social perspectives in primatology is overcoming interdisciplinary barriers. Unfamiliarity with subject-specific theory and language, distinct disciplinary-bound approaches to research, and academic boundaries aimed at "preserving the integrity" of subject disciplines can hinder developments in interdisciplinary research. With growing interest in how humans and other primates share landsc…
Importance of local knowledge in plant resources management and conservation in two protected areas from Trás-os-Montes, Portugal
Many European protected areas were legally created to preserve and maintain biological diversity, unique natural features and associated cultural heritage. Built over centuries as a result of geographical and historical factors interacting with human activity, these territories are reservoirs of resources, practices and knowledge that have been the essential basis of their creation. Under social and economical transformations several components o…
The symbolic efficacy of medicinal plants: Practices, knowledge, and religious beliefs amongst the Nalu healers of Guinea-Bissau
BACKGROUND: In attempting to understand how the use of medicinal plants is symbolically valued and transformed according to specific cosmologies, we gain valuable insight into the ethnopharmacologial practices, in terms of the major role played by healers, as custodians of local ethnobotanical knowledge, but also as ritual masters. Thus, the goal of this paper is to understand how medicinal plants are used differently depending on a combination b…
Living with the Beast: Wolves and Humans through Portuguese Literature
This paper explores representations of wolves in Portuguese literature using an anthropological framework to analyze perceptions, beliefs, knowledge, and practices. From a literary corpus compilation, 262 excerpts from 68 works that made reference to wolves were classified by grid analysis into 12 categories, encompassing the diversity of meanings attributed to these animals. Among wild carnivores, the wolf appears most frequently in the literary…
The return of the Iberian lynx to Portugal: Local Voices
BACKGROUND: Ethnographic research can help to establish dialog between conservationists and local people in reintroduction areas. Considering that predator reintroductions may cause local resistance, we assessed attitudes of different key actor profiles to the return of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) to Portugal before reintroduction started in 2015. We aimed to characterize a social context from an ethnoecological perspective, including factor…
Relating to the wild: Key actors’ values and concerns about lynx reintroduction
Nalu botanic classifications: Consensus and Flexibility
Neste artigo aborda-se a questão da construção de classificações do mundo natural, concretamente do universo vegetal, e da sua evocação nas práticas sociais. Partindo das classificações botânicas dos nalu da Guiné-Bissau discute-se o modelo taxonómico hierárquico, fundamento de muitas das análises etnobiológicas, e faz-se referência à discussão do carácter utilitário das classificações. Os processos de denominação, identificação e distinção das p…
Nalu botanic classifications: Consensus and Flexibility
Neste artigo aborda-se a questão da construção de classificações do mundo natural, concretamente do universo vegetal, e da sua evocação nas práticas sociais. Partindo das classificações botânicas dos nalu da Guiné-Bissau discute-se o modelo taxonómico hierárquico, fundamento de muitas das análises etnobiológicas, e faz-se referência à discussão do carácter utilitário das classificações. Os processos de denominação, identificação e distinção das p…
Amélia Frazão-Moreira
Conocimientos acerca de plantas en la nueva ruralidad. Cambio social y agro ecología en el Parque Natural de Montesinho (Portugal)
En las últimas décadas, las regiones montañosas de Portugal han sufrido transformaciones económicas y una intensa disminución de la población que conllevaran modificaciones visibles de los agroecosistemas y en consecuencia del paisaje. Un estudio de caso, conducido en un espacio natural protegido de la provincia portuguesa de Trás-os-Montes (2006-2007) - el Parque Natural de Montesinho - y del ámbito del proyecto de investigación ";Etnobotãnica d…
Importance of local knowledge in plant resources management and conservation in two protected areas from Trás-os-Montes, Portugal
Many European protected areas were legally created to preserve and maintain biological diversity, unique natural features and associated cultural heritage. Built over centuries as a result of geographical and historical factors interacting with human activity, these territories are reservoirs of resources, practices and knowledge that have been the essential basis of their creation. Under social and economical transformations several components o…
Ethnobiological research and ethnographic challenges in the “ecological era”
Local knowledge and the ecological practices have been important matters in the study of the ways that people make places and feel the world. Nowadays, in the “ecological era,” this subject gained new prominence. However, different dynamics emerge that, in some way, can seem epistemologically ambiguous. Ethnobiological studies, heirs of linguistic and cognitive anthropology, are permeable to deductive logics and etic approaches. The ethnoecologic…
Across disciplinary boundaries: Remembering Cláudia Sousa
This dossier pays homage to the primatologist Cláudia Sousa and is the result of a seminar held in her memory. It collates the presentations of Cláudia’s colleagues on themes that demonstrate not only the importance of her work but also the legacy that she left. It highlights the potential for novel ways to bring together social and human sciences and biological sciences in the field of anthropology
Challenging approaches and crossovers in anthropology and conservation in Guinea-Bissau
This communication presents research conducted according to the theoretical viewpoint held passionately by Cláudia Sousa: the need for an interdisciplinary perspective between anthropology, primatology and conservation. Only then can a holistic understanding of human and chimpanzee interactions be achieved that includes local knowledge, and involves local populations in biodiversity conservation
The (In)visibility of the Iberian Lynx
Not much is known about how the cultural image of predators has been constructed in Western contexts and changed through time. This article reviews representations of lynx in Western Europe. A ‘cultural map’ of lynx in historical contexts is presented, and the ‘social visibility’ of the Iberian lynx in Portugal explored. Since prehistoric times the lynx has been an inspiration, an amulet, a creature gifted with extraordinary capacities but also a…
The symbolic efficacy of medicinal plants: Practices, knowledge, and religious beliefs amongst the Nalu healers of Guinea-Bissau
BACKGROUND: In attempting to understand how the use of medicinal plants is symbolically valued and transformed according to specific cosmologies, we gain valuable insight into the ethnopharmacologial practices, in terms of the major role played by healers, as custodians of local ethnobotanical knowledge, but also as ritual masters. Thus, the goal of this paper is to understand how medicinal plants are used differently depending on a combination b…
Living with the Beast: Wolves and Humans through Portuguese Literature
This paper explores representations of wolves in Portuguese literature using an anthropological framework to analyze perceptions, beliefs, knowledge, and practices. From a literary corpus compilation, 262 excerpts from 68 works that made reference to wolves were classified by grid analysis into 12 categories, encompassing the diversity of meanings attributed to these animals. Among wild carnivores, the wolf appears most frequently in the literary…
Relating to the wild: Key actors’ values and concerns about lynx reintroduction
Breaking Through Disciplinary Barriers: Human-Wildlife Interactions and Multispecies Ethnography
One of the main challenges when integrating biological and social perspectives in primatology is overcoming interdisciplinary barriers. Unfamiliarity with subject-specific theory and language, distinct disciplinary-bound approaches to research, and academic boundaries aimed at "preserving the integrity" of subject disciplines can hinder developments in interdisciplinary research. With growing interest in how humans and other primates share landsc…
The return of the Iberian lynx to Portugal: Local Voices
BACKGROUND: Ethnographic research can help to establish dialog between conservationists and local people in reintroduction areas. Considering that predator reintroductions may cause local resistance, we assessed attitudes of different key actor profiles to the return of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) to Portugal before reintroduction started in 2015. We aimed to characterize a social context from an ethnoecological perspective, including factor…
Gendered plants and plant categorization by gender: Classificatory and “storied” knowledge in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal
Background: An anthropomorphizing process arises out of classification systems, whereby analogy is drawn between the social differences of gender and the morphological and biological characteristics used to designate or classify plants. On the other side, it is observed that men and women categorize plants differently on the basis of their practices and knowledge.This paper addresses two assumptions: the consistent cognitive mechanisms of attribu…
‘Among predators’: The place of humans, Iberian lynx and other wild carnivores
Using an ethnoecological approach we studied perceptions, empirical classifications and practices towards wild predators in Portuguese protected areas. Results from 131 semi-structured interviews allowed the analysis of classification, criteria used by key actors and the understanding of an emic perspective on the differentiation of the natural world. Further analysis and data from observation reveal local ecological knowledge associated with cha…
Entre favas e ovelhas: Categorias do mundo adulto apreendidas pelas crianças , numa aldeia do Alto Douro
.
Diversity of wild edible plants of Guinea-Bissau (West Africa): Traditional uses and trade
In Guinea-Bissau, WEPs play a key role in the traditional diet of local communities, especially when crops are scarce, thus ensuring food security, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. The sustainable use of WEPs can contribute to the well-being of local populations and to the conservation of the natural resources and ecosystems in this West African country
A comprehensive checklist of the wild edible plants of Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
Wild edible plants (WEP) are among the most important non-timber forest products, contributing both to local food security and to the generation of income for families. The aim of this study is to present a comprehensive dataset of WEP in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, including species identification, characterization of uses, bioecology, and local common names, as well as an associated image dataset documenting the species and their edible parts. …
Geography (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Biology (5 works) · Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies (5 works) · Ethnobotany (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works)