Ethnobotanical knowledge of two Indian communities in the Monte Desert: the role of age, time outside, and residence isolation

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Dip, Alejandra Belén; Sampietro Vattuone, Maria Marta
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2024
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Background: The contributions of ethnobotany are essential for understanding the relationship of local communities with their environment and, therefore, for planning effective conservation and management measures. In this paper, we present the results of the first quantitative approach to the ethnobotany of Indian communities of the Santa María valley, a semiarid region in Tucumán province (Argentina) with marked signs of environmental degradation where people face harsh socioeconomic conditions. This study aimed to evaluate the relevance of a set of plant species for the local communities and to analyze the effects of predictor variables on local people’s knowledge about uses of plants.Methods: We conducted semi-structured ethnobotanical surveys inquiring about the uses of 41 plant species. We analyzed the relevance of each species following consensus and versatility criteria. We searched for patterns in individual knowledge and their relationship with gender, age, time of residence outside the valley, and residence isolation, through ordinations and generalized linear models.Results: We present a ranking of the species based on their Cultural Importance value. We found that age and residence isolation positively affect knowledge about plant uses, while time outside the valley has a negative effect.Conclusions: Given the socioeconomic transformations the region has gone through in recent decades, these results highlight the importance of preventing cultural erosion and the loss of its traditional ethnobotanical knowledge.
Fil: Dip, Alejandra Belén. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina
Fil: Sampietro Vattuone, Maria Marta. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo. Laboratorio de Geoarqueología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán; Argentina
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spelling Ethnobotanical knowledge of two Indian communities in the Monte Desert: the role of age, time outside, and residence isolationDip, Alejandra BelénSampietro Vattuone, Maria MartaPLANT USESNUMERICAL ETHNOBOTANYCULTURAL IMPORTANCEAGEISOLATIONhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1Background: The contributions of ethnobotany are essential for understanding the relationship of local communities with their environment and, therefore, for planning effective conservation and management measures. In this paper, we present the results of the first quantitative approach to the ethnobotany of Indian communities of the Santa María valley, a semiarid region in Tucumán province (Argentina) with marked signs of environmental degradation where people face harsh socioeconomic conditions. This study aimed to evaluate the relevance of a set of plant species for the local communities and to analyze the effects of predictor variables on local people’s knowledge about uses of plants.Methods: We conducted semi-structured ethnobotanical surveys inquiring about the uses of 41 plant species. We analyzed the relevance of each species following consensus and versatility criteria. We searched for patterns in individual knowledge and their relationship with gender, age, time of residence outside the valley, and residence isolation, through ordinations and generalized linear models.Results: We present a ranking of the species based on their Cultural Importance value. We found that age and residence isolation positively affect knowledge about plant uses, while time outside the valley has a negative effect.Conclusions: Given the socioeconomic transformations the region has gone through in recent decades, these results highlight the importance of preventing cultural erosion and the loss of its traditional ethnobotanical knowledge.Fil: Dip, Alejandra Belén. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional; ArgentinaFil: Sampietro Vattuone, Maria Marta. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo. Laboratorio de Geoarqueología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán; ArgentinaIlia State University2024-08info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/257131Dip, Alejandra Belén; Sampietro Vattuone, Maria Marta; Ethnobotanical knowledge of two Indian communities in the Monte Desert: the role of age, time outside, and residence isolation; Ilia State University; Ethnobotany Research and Applications; 29; 8-2024; 1-151547-3465CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://ethnobotanyjournal.org/index.php/era/article/view/6174info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.32859/era.29.28.1-15info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2026-04-15T10:29:05Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/257131instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982026-04-15 10:29:06.199CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Ethnobotanical knowledge of two Indian communities in the Monte Desert: the role of age, time outside, and residence isolation
title Ethnobotanical knowledge of two Indian communities in the Monte Desert: the role of age, time outside, and residence isolation
spellingShingle Ethnobotanical knowledge of two Indian communities in the Monte Desert: the role of age, time outside, and residence isolation
Dip, Alejandra Belén
PLANT USES
NUMERICAL ETHNOBOTANY
CULTURAL IMPORTANCE
AGE
ISOLATION
title_short Ethnobotanical knowledge of two Indian communities in the Monte Desert: the role of age, time outside, and residence isolation
title_full Ethnobotanical knowledge of two Indian communities in the Monte Desert: the role of age, time outside, and residence isolation
title_fullStr Ethnobotanical knowledge of two Indian communities in the Monte Desert: the role of age, time outside, and residence isolation
title_full_unstemmed Ethnobotanical knowledge of two Indian communities in the Monte Desert: the role of age, time outside, and residence isolation
title_sort Ethnobotanical knowledge of two Indian communities in the Monte Desert: the role of age, time outside, and residence isolation
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Dip, Alejandra Belén
Sampietro Vattuone, Maria Marta
author Dip, Alejandra Belén
author_facet Dip, Alejandra Belén
Sampietro Vattuone, Maria Marta
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author2 Sampietro Vattuone, Maria Marta
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv PLANT USES
NUMERICAL ETHNOBOTANY
CULTURAL IMPORTANCE
AGE
ISOLATION
topic PLANT USES
NUMERICAL ETHNOBOTANY
CULTURAL IMPORTANCE
AGE
ISOLATION
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Background: The contributions of ethnobotany are essential for understanding the relationship of local communities with their environment and, therefore, for planning effective conservation and management measures. In this paper, we present the results of the first quantitative approach to the ethnobotany of Indian communities of the Santa María valley, a semiarid region in Tucumán province (Argentina) with marked signs of environmental degradation where people face harsh socioeconomic conditions. This study aimed to evaluate the relevance of a set of plant species for the local communities and to analyze the effects of predictor variables on local people’s knowledge about uses of plants.Methods: We conducted semi-structured ethnobotanical surveys inquiring about the uses of 41 plant species. We analyzed the relevance of each species following consensus and versatility criteria. We searched for patterns in individual knowledge and their relationship with gender, age, time of residence outside the valley, and residence isolation, through ordinations and generalized linear models.Results: We present a ranking of the species based on their Cultural Importance value. We found that age and residence isolation positively affect knowledge about plant uses, while time outside the valley has a negative effect.Conclusions: Given the socioeconomic transformations the region has gone through in recent decades, these results highlight the importance of preventing cultural erosion and the loss of its traditional ethnobotanical knowledge.
Fil: Dip, Alejandra Belén. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina
Fil: Sampietro Vattuone, Maria Marta. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo. Laboratorio de Geoarqueología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tucumán; Argentina
description Background: The contributions of ethnobotany are essential for understanding the relationship of local communities with their environment and, therefore, for planning effective conservation and management measures. In this paper, we present the results of the first quantitative approach to the ethnobotany of Indian communities of the Santa María valley, a semiarid region in Tucumán province (Argentina) with marked signs of environmental degradation where people face harsh socioeconomic conditions. This study aimed to evaluate the relevance of a set of plant species for the local communities and to analyze the effects of predictor variables on local people’s knowledge about uses of plants.Methods: We conducted semi-structured ethnobotanical surveys inquiring about the uses of 41 plant species. We analyzed the relevance of each species following consensus and versatility criteria. We searched for patterns in individual knowledge and their relationship with gender, age, time of residence outside the valley, and residence isolation, through ordinations and generalized linear models.Results: We present a ranking of the species based on their Cultural Importance value. We found that age and residence isolation positively affect knowledge about plant uses, while time outside the valley has a negative effect.Conclusions: Given the socioeconomic transformations the region has gone through in recent decades, these results highlight the importance of preventing cultural erosion and the loss of its traditional ethnobotanical knowledge.
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