Collecting and learning to identify edible fungi in Southeastern Poland: Age and gender differences

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 319-336

  Łuczaj, Łukasz ^a   Nieroda, Zofia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RZESZÓW   (Poland)

^b Wyzsza Szkola Humanistyczno Ekonomiczna w Lodzi   (Poland)

Author keywords

Folk taxonomy; Foraging; Inter generational knowledge transfer; Mushroom picking; Mycophilia

Indexed keywords

AGE; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; CULTURAL TRADITION; EDIBLE SPECIES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; GENDER; MUSHROOM; TEACHING; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

ADULT; AGARICALES; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIET; FATHER; FEMALE; FUNGUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEACHING;

ADULT; AGARICALES; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CULTURE; DIET; FATHERS; FEMALE; FUNGI; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; SEX FACTORS; TEACHING;

POLAND;

ARMILLARIA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BOLETACEAE; BOLETUS EDULIS; BOLETUS ERYTHROPUS; CANTHARELLUS CIBARIUS; FUNGI; LACTARIUS SALMONICOLOR; LECCINUM; MACROLEPIOTA PROCERA; RUSSULA; SUILLUS; XEROCOMUS;

EID: 79960317603     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: 15435237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2011.586314     Document Type: Article

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