Healing war wounds and perfuming exile: The use of vegetal, animal, and mineral products for perfumes, cosmetics, and skin healing among Sahrawi refugees of Western Sahara

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Volpato, Gabriele ^a,c   Kourková, Pavlína ^b   Zelený, Václav ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

EthnobiologyEthnobotanyMedicinal plantsWestern Sahara; Sahrawi refugees

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LAWSONIA INERMIS; SUS;

COSMETIC; MINERAL; PERFUME; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT;

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN MEDICINE; AGED; AIR; ALGERIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DESERT CLIMATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT; REFUGEE; SKIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WAR; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AFRICA, NORTHERN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR; ALGERIA; ANIMALS; COSMETICS; DATA COLLECTION; DESERT CLIMATE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; MINERALS; PERFUME; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; PLANTS; REFUGEES; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WAR; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871531244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-8-49     Document Type: Article

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