Revising the Cultural Significance Index: The Case of the Fulni-ô in Northeastern Brazil

Field Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 98-108

  da Silva, Valdeline Atanázio ^a   Andrade, Laise de Holanda Cavalcanti ^b   de Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

cultural significance; ethnobotanical research; quantitative ethnobotany; semiarid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996225615     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X05278025     Document Type: Article

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