Medicinal plant knowledge in rural communities of Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. A resilient practice beyond acculturation

LADIO A H; LOZADA, M

Current topics in Ethnobotany

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Lugar: India; Año: 2008; p. 39 - 53

Medicinal wild plant use is an ancient practice amongst aboriginal inhabitants from north-western Patagonia. At present, this local knowledge is conspicuously decreasing due to acculturation processes associated with the deep transformations these rural and aboriginal populations are suffering. Medicinal plant knowledge forms part of a greater corpus of local knowledge known as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Several investigations have shown that TEK contributes to building resilience and enhancing a system’s ability to deal with change.