Title Indigenous knowledge and development : livelihoods, health experiences, and medicinal plant knowledge in a Mexican biosphere reserve / Elizabeth Olson

Published Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 181 pages) : illustrations Contents List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sierra of Manantlán Biosphere Reserve -- 3 Conservation and Subsistence Strategies -- 4 Market Interaction and Indigenous People -- 5 Governance: Community Decision-Making -- 6 Indigenous People and Development Programs -- 7 Ethnomedical Systems in Mexico -- 8 Medicinal Plant Knowledge in the Reserve -- 9 Final Thoughts -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the Author Summary Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve provides an ethnographic account of the Nahua, a group of Indigenous people living in a protected area in west central Mexico. The study moves back and forth between the macro and micro to explore the relationships between three central axes-health, livelihood and cultural knowledge. This anthropological study presents analysis based on household level socioeconomic data and cultural knowledge measured through the use of both structured and semi-structured interview Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Indians of Mexico -- Ethnobotany -- Mexico -- Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlán Indians of Mexico -- Medicine -- Mexico -- Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlán Ethnoecology -- Mexico -- Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlán Medicinal plants -- Mexico -- Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlán Traditional ecological knowledge -- Mexico -- Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlán Indians, South American -- ethnology -- Mexico Medicine, Traditional -- Mexico Plants, Medicinal -- Mexico Plants, Medicinal Indians, South American -- ethnology Medicine, Traditional HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico. Ecology Indians of Mexico -- Ethnobotany Indians of Mexico -- Medicine Ethnoecology Manners and customs Medicinal plants Traditional ecological knowledge Nahua Naturschutz Biosphärenreservat Humanökologie Lokales Wissen Heilpflanzen SUBJECT Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlán (Mexico) -- Environmental conditions Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlán (Mexico) -- Social life and customs Mexico Subject Mexico -- Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra de Manantlán Form Electronic book LC no. 2013045902 ISBN 9780739176641 0739176641 130651231X 9781306512312

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