Factors affecting traditional medicinal plant knowledge of the Waorani, Ecuador
Weckmüller, Holger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Barriocanal Lozano, Carles (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Maneja, Roser (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Boada, Martí, 1949- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)

Date:	2019
Abstract:	This paper explores how medicinal plant knowledge of the Waorani (Ecuador) varies with socio-economic and demographic factors. Medicinal plant knowledge was compared at individual and community levels. Semi-structured interviews were performed with 56 informants (men N = 29, women N = 27) between 15 and 70 years old in five Waorani communities located within the Yasuní National Park andWaorani Ethnic Reserve. We found a positive correlation between an informant's medicinal plant knowledge and age, and a negative correlation between informant's medicinal plant knowledge and the years of schooling. Reasons behind these findings are thought to be in the rapid socio-cultural changes of the Waorani due to globalization processes. Increased accessibility to health centers and improved transportation infrastructure result in a loss of ethnobotanical knowledge.
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Ethnobotany ; Traditional ecological knowledge ; Indigenous communities ; Ecuadorian amazon ; Loss of knowledge ; Globalization ; Global change ; Acculturation ; Socio-cultural changes
Published in:	Sustainability, Vol. 11, Issue 16 (August 2019) , art. 4460, ISSN 2071-1050

DOI: 10.3390/su11164460

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