Plants Used as Food and Medicine by Polish Migrants in Misiones, Argentina

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 255-279

  Kujawska, Monika ^a,b   Pieroni, Andrea ^c  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGÍA SUBTROPICAL   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; cross cultural ethnobotany; edible plants used in home phytotherapy; food medicines; Polish diaspora

Indexed keywords

EDIBLE SPECIES; ETHNOBOTANY; FOOD; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEDICINE;

ARGENTINA; MISIONES [ARGENTINA];

ALLIUM SATIVUM; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; MENTHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; CITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; EDIBLE PLANT; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PHYTOTHERAPY; POLAND; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGENTINA; CITIES; CULTURE; DIET; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNOBOTANY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANTS, EDIBLE; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POLAND; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84928352231     PISSN: 03670244     EISSN: 15435237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03670244.2014.983498     Document Type: Article

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