A consensus ethnobotany of the Q'eqchi' Maya of Southern Belize

Economic Botany

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-42

  Amiguet, Virginie Treyvaud ^a   Arnason, John Thor ^a   Maquin, Pedro ^b   Cal, Victor ^b   Vindas, Pablo Sanchez ^c   Poveda, Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Belize Indigenous Training Institute   (Belize)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Belize; Consensus; Medicinal plants; Q'eqchi' Maya; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 30844437427     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0013-0001(2005)059[0029:ACEOTQ]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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