Knowledges, gathering practices and managment of plants in rural and urban communities of southern Patagonian coast (Argentina)
Background and aims: This work studies the plant gathering practices of local people from the southern coast of Patagonia (Santa Cruz province, Argentina). Organoleptic perceptions, categories of use and knowledge transmission among interviewed were identified.M&M: The vegetation belongs to...
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Sociedad Argentina de Botánica
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/BSAB/article/view/37633 |
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| Sumario: | Background and aims: This work studies the plant gathering practices of local people from the southern coast of Patagonia (Santa Cruz province, Argentina). Organoleptic perceptions, categories of use and knowledge transmission among interviewed were identified.M&M: The vegetation belongs to the Patagonian steppe. An ethnographic qualitative methodology with flexible design was adopted, with semi-structured interviews and participant observation. Theoretical concepts of ethnoecology, relational ontology and cosmopraxis allowed us to analyze the local people ́s discourses.Results: 62 taxa that belong to 40 families are used as medicine, fuel, food, dyes, multipurpose and ornamental. Asteraceae, Lamiaceae, Fabaceae, Apiaceae, Rhamnaceae, and Verbenaceae were the predominant families. The 9.67% of these taxa are used only as food, 22.95 % as fuel, 46.77 % as medicine, 8.19 % as ornamental, and 13.11% as multipurpose. Taxa with more use consensus among interviewees were Berberis microphylla (multipurpose), Schinus jhonstonii (fuel) and Dysphania ambrosioides (medicinal). Fourteen taxa were the average mentions with a range of 3 to 27 taxa by each informant.Conclusions: Medicinal and fuel uses were predominat. Organoleptic perceptions guide the recognition of medicinal plants and biophysical properties of the wood for selection of fuel plants. |
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