Culturally important plants from Southern Belize: Domestication by Q'eqchi' Maya healers and conservation

Ambio

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 138-140

  Bourbonnais Spear, Natalie ^a   Poissant, Jocelyn ^b   Cal, Victor ^c   Arnason, John Thor ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Belize Indigenous Training Institute BITI   (Belize)

^d Ottawa Carleton Institute of Biology   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DOMESTICATION; PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BELIZE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MEDICINAL PLANT; TREE;

AGRICULTURE; BELIZE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CULTURE; HUMANS; INDIANS, CENTRAL AMERICAN; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; TREES;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; CENTRAL AMERICA;

EID: 33745889018     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2006)35[138:CIPFSB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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20. We would like to thank participating healers, community members, and translators for their time and commitment to this project, as well as Pedro Maquin for his generous input. We also recognize the strong implication of the Q'eqchi' Healers' Association (QHA) and the Belize Indigenous Training Institute (BITI). Also, we are grateful to Luis Poveda and Pablo Sanchez Vindas from the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica for taxonomic identifications. This project was funded partly through an NSERC (Canada) grant to Thor Arnason and an FQRNT (Québec) scholarship to Natalie Bourbonnais-Spear.
21. First submitted 6 November 2005. Accepted for publication 4 January 2006.