Children’s Acquisition of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in a Caribbean Horticultural Village
| Autor: | Marsha B. Quinlan, Robert J. Quinlan, Sarah K. Council, Jennifer W. Roulette |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060101 anthropology
Ecology fungi food and beverages Subsistence agriculture 06 humanities and the arts Plant Science Social learning 01 natural sciences Child development 0104 chemical sciences Crop Plant identification 010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistry Geography Anthropology Ethnobotany Nominal group technique 0601 history and archaeology Animal Science and Zoology Socioeconomics West indies |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Ethnobiology. 36:433-456 |
| ISSN: | 2162-4496 0278-0771 |
| DOI: | 10.2993/0278-0771-36.2.433 |
| Popis: | Subsistence horticulturalists learn considerable local ecological knowledge by early adulthood. We investigate the relationship between children’s family environments and learning of their plant environment. In a rural village in Dominica, West Indies, children of ages four through 17 (N = 51) participated in a “plant trail” along a route containing 50 core local plants marked for identification. Plants in question resulted from village adults’ freelists on members of local plant domains found via nominal group technique (i.e., trees, staple foods, vegetables, condiments, medicines, and ornamentals). Individual children’s ethnobotanical knowledge was assessed through proper plant identification with a local term. Findings indicate that children learn botanical domains differentially. They identify trees and staple crop plants early in life. As they develop, they learn other plant domains, and trees and staples decrease in proportion to total ethnobotanical knowledge. Boys retain a larger proporti... |
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