Ash salts and bodily affects: Witoto environmental knowledge as sexual education

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Echeverri, Juan Alvaro ^a   Román Jitdutjaaño, Oscar Enokakuiodo ^b  

^a Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Amazonia   (Colombia)

^b Indigenous Reserve Andoque de Aduche ^*  (Colombia)

Author keywords

Amazonia; ash salt; biodiversity; traditional environmental knowledge; Witoto

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; TISSUE; VEGETABLES;

AMAZONIA; CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN CONDITIONS; PLANT SPECIES; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; WITOTO;

SALTS;

ASH; BIODIVERSITY; BRINE; COMBUSTION; CULTURAL TRADITION; DESICCATION; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; PLANT EXTRACT; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84876170415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015034     Document Type: Article

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