Knowledge and Consumption of Wild Plants : A comparative study in two Tsimane ’ villages in the Bolivian Amazon
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www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol3/i1547-3465-03-201.pdf Ethnobotany Research & Applications 3:201-207 (2005) Victoria Reyes-García, ICREA-Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambiental, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellatera, Barcelona, SPAIN. [email protected] Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Vincent Vadez & Tomás Huanca, Sustainable International Development Program, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02454-9110, U.S.A. William Leonard, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, U.S.A. David Wilkie, Wildlife Conservation Society, 18 Clark Lane, Waltham, Massachusetts 02451-1823, U.S.A. Abstract
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