" I eat the manofê so it is not forgotten" : Local perceptions and consumption of native wild edible plants from seasonal dry forests in Brazil

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cruz, Margarita P ^a,b   Medeiros, Patrícia M ^a,c   Combariza, Iván S ^d,e   Peroni, Nivaldo ^f   Albuquerque, Ulysses P ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b Colombian Society of Ethnobiology ^*  (Colombia)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO   (Colombia)

^e Centro de Estudios Médicos Interculturales CEMI   (Colombia)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Consumption preferences; Ethnobiology; Ethnobotany; Food plants; Local representations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; EDIBLE PLANT; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; FOOD; FOREST; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; SEASON; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; FOOD; FORESTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PLANTS, EDIBLE; SEASONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84901605618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-10-45     Document Type: Article

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