What the Iberian Conquest Bequeathed to Us : The Fruit Trees Introduced in Argentine Subtropic—Their History and Importance in Present Traditional Medicine

Joint Authors

Hilgert, Norma I.
Lambaré, Daniela Alejandra
Pochettino, María Lelia
Stampella, Pablo C.

Source

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Issue

Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-17, 17 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2013-11-24

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

17

Main Subjects

Medicine

Abstract EN

This contribution presents information about the history of introduction, establishment, and local appropriation of Eurasian fruit trees—species and varieties of the genera Prunus and Citrus—from 15th century in two rural areas of Northern Argentina.

By means of an ethnobotanical and ethnohistorical approach, our study was aimed at analysing how this process influenced local medicine and the design of cultural landscape that they are still part of.

As a first step, local diversity, knowledge, and management practices of these fruit tree species were surveyed.

In a second moment, medicinal properties attributed to them were documented.

A historical literature was consulted referring to different aspects on introduction of peaches and citric species into America and their uses in the past.

The appropriation of these fruit-trees gave place to new applications and a particular status for introduced species that are seen as identitary and contribute to the definition of the communities and daily life landscapes.

Besides, these plants, introduced in a relatively short period and with written record, allow the researcher to understand and to design landscape domestication, as a multidimensional result of physical, social, and symbolic environment.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Stampella, Pablo C.& Lambaré, Daniela Alejandra& Hilgert, Norma I.& Pochettino, María Lelia. 2013. What the Iberian Conquest Bequeathed to Us : The Fruit Trees Introduced in Argentine Subtropic—Their History and Importance in Present Traditional Medicine. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-17.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)

Stampella, Pablo C.…[et al.]. What the Iberian Conquest Bequeathed to Us : The Fruit Trees Introduced in Argentine Subtropic—Their History and Importance in Present Traditional Medicine. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-504752

American Medical Association (AMA)

Stampella, Pablo C.& Lambaré, Daniela Alejandra& Hilgert, Norma I.& Pochettino, María Lelia. What the Iberian Conquest Bequeathed to Us : The Fruit Trees Introduced in Argentine Subtropic—Their History and Importance in Present Traditional Medicine. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-17.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-504752

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-504752