Understanding cultural significance, the edible mushrooms case
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Understanding cultural significance, the edible mushrooms case
BACKGROUND Cultural significance is a keystone in quantitative ethnobiology, which offers the possibility to make inferences about traditional nomenclature systems, use, appropriation and valuing of natural resources. In the present work, using as model the traditional mycological knowledge of Zapotecs from Oaxaca, Mexico, we analyze the cultural significance of wild edible resources. METHODS...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1746-4269
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-3-4