What drives the use of natural products for medicinal purposes in the context of cultural pluralism?

Medeiros, Patrícia Muniz de; Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino; Abreu, Diego Batista de Oliveira; Silva, Taline Cristina da; Ferreira, Washington Soares; Ramos, Marcelo Alves; Ladio, Ana Haydeé

doi:10.1016/j.eujim.2016.03.012

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“…However, it is noteworthy that Siribinha has only a small health facility, where a doctor only attends once a week, and, therefore, the community still relies to a large extent on their ethnomedical knowledge and local healers. It is worth investigating whether some integration between Western scientifically based medicine and ethnomedical knowledge systems has been taking place in Siribinha, as it has been reported for other communities in Northeast Brazil (Medeiros et al 2016).…”

Section: The Maintenance or Erosion Of Traditional Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

Gender differences in plant use knowledge within a traditional fishing community in northeastern Brazil

Tng¹,

Apgaua²,

Lisboa³

et al. 2021

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Background: Understanding patterns in traditional plant use knowledge is crucial for assisting policy making with regard to nature conservation, human nutrition, human health, as well as educational and participatory processes in traditional communities. We aim to document and describe local ethnobotanical knowledge and test the hypothesis that gender structures the knowledge of plant use possessed by artisanal fishers in a fishing community in northeast Bahia, Brazil.

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Section: The Maintenance or Erosion Of Traditional Knowledgementioning

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Gender differences in plant use knowledge within a traditional fishing community in northeastern Brazil

Tng¹,

Apgaua²,

Lisboa³

et al. 2021

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“…Given the significant cross–Caribbean variation in ethnobotanical practices between these communities (Boulogne et al 2011 ; Longuefosse and Nossin 1996 ; Picking et al 2015 ; Tramil 1999 ; Weniger et al 1986 ), the dynamics of exchange between them deserve particular attention. In the present survey, we thus present the medicinal plants used by these four communities, and analyze and discuss the characteristics of their practices in the context of migrant ethnobotanical theory (Ceuterick et al 2008 , 2011 ; Medeiros et al 2012 , 2016 ; van Andel and van’t Klooster 2007 ; Vandebroek et al 2007 ; Volpato et al 2009 ). Briefly, from the point of view of a migrant group, the arrival in a new territory demands, on the one hand, adaptation to new environmental and cultural realities and, on the other hand, a search for plant species that will allow the reproduction of cultural practices (Medeiros et al 2012 ).…”

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Migrant Pharmacopoeias: An Ethnobotanical Survey of Four Caribbean Communities in Amazonia (French Guiana)

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“…Ethnobotany of migrants is occupying an increasingly important place in modern ethnobiology, thanks to numerous recent works of ethnographic description and conceptualization of these practices [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13], and particularly in an urban context where moving populations are often concentrated [1,2,5,[8][9][10][14][15][16][17][18][19]. Indeed, the question of the resulting ethnobotanical hybridizations is now at the heart of interdisciplinary questioning in ethnosciences [20][21][22][23][24][25], as it is nowadays accepted that phytotherapeutical practices are dynamic cultural processes which are constantly nourished by the circulation of people and the interactions between different cultural groups.…”

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Phytotherapies in motion: French Guiana as a case study for cross-cultural ethnobotanical hybridization

Tareau

Bonnefond²,

Palisse

et al. 2020

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Background French Guiana is characterized by a very multicultural population, made up of formerly settled groups (Amerindians, Maroons, Creoles) and more recent migrants (mostly from Latin America and the Caribbean). It is the ideal place to try to understand the influence of intercultural exchanges on the composition of medicinal floras and the evolution of phytotherapies under the effect of cross-culturalism. Methods A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was used. Semi-directive interviews were conducted in 12 localities of French Guiana’s coast between January 2016 and June 2017, and the responses to all closed questions collected during the survey were computerized in an Excel spreadsheet to facilitate quantitative processing. Herbarium vouchers were collected and deposited at the Cayenne Herbarium to determine Linnaean names of medicinal species mentioned by the interviewees. A list of indicator species for each cultural group considered was adapted from community ecology to this ethnobiological context, according to the Dufrêne-Legendre model, via the “labdsv” package and the “indval” function, after performing a redundancy analysis (RDA). Results A total of 205 people, belonging to 15 distinct cultural groups, were interviewed using semi-structured questionnaires. A total of 356 species (for 106 botanical families) were cited. We observed that pantropical and edible species hold a special place in these pharmacopeias. If compared to previous inventories, 31 recently introduced species can be counted. Furthermore, this study shows that the majority of the plants used are not specific to a particular group but shared by many communities. However, despite this obvious cross-culturalism of medicinal plants between the different cultural communities of French Guiana, divergent trends nevertheless appear through the importance of 29 indicator/cultural keystone species in 10 cultural groups. Finally, we have emphasized that the transmission of herbal medicine’s knowledge in French Guiana is mainly feminine and intra-cultural. Conclusion French Guianese medicinal flora is undoubtedly related to the multiple cultures that settled this territory through the last centuries. Cultural pharmacopeias are more hybrid than sometimes expected, but cultural keystone species nevertheless arise from a common background, allowing to understand, and define, the relationships between cultural groups.

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What drives the use of natural products for medicinal purposes in the context of cultural pluralism?

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Gender differences in plant use knowledge within a traditional fishing community in northeastern Brazil

Gender differences in plant use knowledge within a traditional fishing community in northeastern Brazil

Migrant Pharmacopoeias: An Ethnobotanical Survey of Four Caribbean Communities in Amazonia (French Guiana)

Phytotherapies in motion: French Guiana as a case study for cross-cultural ethnobotanical hybridization

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