Beyond food and medicine, but necessary for life, too: other folk plant uses in several territories of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands
| Autor: | Joan Vallès, M. Àngels Bonet, Montse Rigat, Marina Mayans, Teresa Garnatje, Esperança Carrió, Airy Gras, Montse Parada |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Generalitat de Catalunya, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Ajuntament de Figueres, CSIC - Unidad de Recursos de Información Científica para la Investigación (URICI) |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences Cultural Studies Health (social science) Catalonia Biodiversity Ethnobotany government.political_district 01 natural sciences Health(social science) soccer.team Balearic Islands Humans Revenue Aged Aged 80 and over Balearic islands Plants Medicinal Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all) Research Middle Aged language.human_language Non-food and non-medicinal plant uses 0104 chemical sciences Voucher 010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistry Geography Herbarium Complementary and alternative medicine Food Spain language government Ethnology soccer Catalan General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Formentera 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC instname Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |
| Popis: | 53 p., mapa, tablas, gráfico -- La licencia Creative Commons de los datos que se han utilizado en este artículo es: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ [Background] Ethnobotanical academic research, particularly in European industrialised countries, has been, and is, mostly focused on folk uses of food and medicinal plants. Nevertheless, other uses, as may well be supposed, account for a significant portion of these folk uses. In the Catalan linguistic domain, a considerable amount of ethnobotanical work has been produced, but to date almost nothing has been published on these other plant uses. [Methods] We basically used the method of semistructured interviews to collect data on names, knowledge and use of plants in the above-mentioned fields from 759 informants in three Catalonian (Alt Empordà, Montseny and Ripollès) and two Balearic (Formentera and Mallorca) areas. We identified the plants quoted by the informants and prepared herbarium vouchers. We analysed and compared the results obtained. [Results] Information has been collected on 401 genera, 552 species, 81 subspecies and four varieties, belonging to 122 families, totalling 4137 use reports for popular non-food and non-medicinal uses (classified in 14 modalities), and designated with 1303 folk Catalan names. The informant consensus factor is 0.87, accounting for a consistent and robust dataset. [Conclusion] Contrarily to what could be thought a priori, and irrespective of the fact that some uses are declining or changing, non-medicinal and non-food folk plant uses strongly persist in the territories considered, are highly considered by their practitioners, and may even imply some economic revenues. This research has been partially funded by the municipal council of Figueres (IX Beca de recerca “Ciutat de Figueres”), the Catalan government (projects 2009SGR439, 2009ACOM00012, 2009ACOM00013 and 2014SGR514) and the Spanish government (project CSO2014-59704-P). We acknowledge support by the CSIC Open Access Publication Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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