Cultural transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge in a rural community of Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina

Economic Botany

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 374-385

  Lozada, Mariana ^a   Ladio, Ana ^a   Weigandt, Mariana ^a  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Learning of ethnobotanical information; Mapuche indigenous tradition; Patagonia; Traditional ecological knowledge

Indexed keywords

CAPSICUM PUBESCENS;

EID: 33846603733     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0013-0001(2006)60[374:CTOEKI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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