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Current use of wild plants with edible underground storage organs in a rural population of Patagonia: between tradition and change

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, September 2015
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Title
Current use of wild plants with edible underground storage organs in a rural population of Patagonia: between tradition and change
Published in
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, September 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13002-015-0053-z
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Juan José Ochoa, Ana Haydee Ladio

Abstract

Edible plants with underground storage organs (USOs) are neglected resources. We studied the local ecological knowledge edible plants with (USOs) in rural populations of North-Patagonia in order to establish how people are utilizing these plants. Some aspect of corpus-praxis-cosmos complex associated to the local ecological knowledge was documented and discussed. In addition, variation in this ecological knowledge due to age, gender, family structure, ethnic self-determination was also evaluated. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 51 inhabitants in order to study the relationship between the current use of plants with USOs and the age, sex, family group composition and ethnic self-identification of interviewees. In addition, the Cultural Importance Index for each species was calculated. The current richness of known species in these populations is a total of 9 plants. Plants with USOs tend to be used more frequently as the age of the interviewee increases. Women and men showed no differences in the average richness of species cited. The interviewees who share their homes with other generations use these plants more frequently than those who live alone. Our results indicate that the interviewees who identified themselves as belonging to the Mapuche people use these plants more frequently. For the Mapuche people, wild plants have constituted material and symbolic resources of great importance in their historical subsistence. In addition, they are currently being redefined as elements which present a connection with ancestral practices, produce a strong relationship with the 'land', and become markers which identify the 'natural' (historical) ways of their people; these are key elements in the current political processes of identity revaluation. This research is valuable to stimulate cultural revival and health promotion programs in the communities with their own local, cultural food.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Chile 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Argentina 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 67 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 13 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 13%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 11%
Student > Master 6 8%
Other 15 21%
Unknown 11 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 28%
Environmental Science 11 15%
Social Sciences 9 13%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 3 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 4%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 18 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 September 2022.
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#7,500,672
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#307
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#90,084
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
#7
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