Ethnobotany in Intermedical Spaces: The Case of the Fulni-ô Indians (Northeastern Brazil)
Joint Authors
Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino
Soldati, Gustavo Taboada
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-13, 13 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2011-09-26
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
We analyzed the Fulni-ô medical system and introduced its intermedical character based on secondary data published in the literature.
Then we focused on the medicinal plants known to the ethnic group, describing the most important species, their therapeutic uses and the body systems attributed to them.
We based this analysis on the field experience of the authors in the project Studies for the Environmental and Cultural Sustainability of the Fulni-ô Medical System: Office of Medicinal Plant Care.
This traditional botanical knowledge was used to corroborate the hybrid nature of local practices for access to health.
We show that intermedicality is a result not only of the meeting of the Fulni-ô medical system with Biomedicine but also of its meeting with other traditional systems.
Finally, we discuss how traditional botanical knowledge may be directly related to the ethnogenesis process led by the Fulni-ô Indians in northeastern Brazil.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Soldati, Gustavo Taboada& Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino. 2011. Ethnobotany in Intermedical Spaces: The Case of the Fulni-ô Indians (Northeastern Brazil). Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-13.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Soldati, Gustavo Taboada& Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino. Ethnobotany in Intermedical Spaces: The Case of the Fulni-ô Indians (Northeastern Brazil). Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-992499
American Medical Association (AMA)
Soldati, Gustavo Taboada& Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino. Ethnobotany in Intermedical Spaces: The Case of the Fulni-ô Indians (Northeastern Brazil). Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2011. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-992499
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-992499