Indigenous biosystematics of yams (Dioscorea spp.) in Southwest Ethiopia: folk taxonomy, ethnolinguistic analysis, and folk descriptors
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Women indigenous knowledge of folk medicines
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This study analysed women s indigenous knowledge of folk medicines with respect to human and livestock illnesses in selected areas in upper Swat, Buner, and Chitral Districts of the Malakand region of North West Frontier Province, Pakistan in the summer 2003. This analysis was completed by a male and female multi-disciplinary team of specialists. Interviews were conducted using Questionnaires a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1746-4269
DOI: 10.1186/s13002-020-00427-8