The use of different indicators for interpreting the local knowledge loss on medical plants
| Autor: | Fernanda Novais Barros, Taline Cristina da Silva, Camilla de Carvalho de Brito, Eraldo Medeiros Costa Neto, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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0106 biological sciences
Traditional botanical knowledge Bioprospecting Recall Local knowledge media_common.quotation_subject Ethnobotany lcsh:RS1-441 Younger people 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences lcsh:Pharmacy and materia medica Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics(all) 010404 medicinal & biomolecular chemistry Geography Single indicator Erosion Knowledge transmission Psychological resilience General Pharmacology Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Socioeconomics 010606 plant biology & botany media_common |
| Zdroj: | Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia, Vol 27, Iss 2, Pp 245-250 Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia, Vol 27, Iss 2, Pp 245-250 (2017) Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia v.27 n.2 2017 Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia Sociedade Brasileira de Farmacognosia (SBFgnosia) instacron:SBFGNOSIA Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 245-250, Published: APR 2017 |
| Popis: | The increasing loss of local ecological knowledge may have negative impacts on the resilience of socio-ecological systems and may also negatively impact bioprospecting efforts, since local ecological knowledge is an important source of information for searching new drugs. Recent studies try to evaluate whether communities are experiencing loss of local ecological knowledge. However, some of them make conclusions which are erroneously based on specific analyses of a single indicator. We propose an integrative analysis of three indicators, namely: number of plants cited by young people and elders, therapeutic choices and people's connectance in terms of medicinal plant learning. The study was carried out in the community of Sucruiuzinho (Bahia, Brazil). We conducted semistructured interviews and a therapeutic recall with 24 local dwellers. We did not find evidence of local ecological knowledge loss in the studied community. Although younger people know fewer plants, they are well connected in terms of knowledge transmission. Moreover, in illness events, young people and adults have similar proportions of choice for plants when compared to allopathy. Concomitant use of the three indicators leads to a more realistic scenario of local ecological knowledge loss than the use of only one of them. Keywords: Local knowledge, Erosion, Traditional botanical knowledge, Ethnobotany |
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