Antes and Hoy DÍa: Plant knowledge and categorization as adaptations to life in Panama in the Twenty-First Century |
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Authors: | Nina K MÜller-Schwarze |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 1021 Audubon Street, 70118, New Orleans, Louisiana
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Abstract: | Ethnobotanical studies often assume plant knowledge is shared by all members of an arbitrarily bounded human group. By describing
the uses and local categorization of plants in one village in rural Panama in a heteroglossic approach, the different knowledges
within a village are presented in one article. Plants used in the daily work of women and men, and the work of village spe-cialists
are described. Villagers negotiate changing realities by adapting plant use and knowl-edge; this is reflected in local categorization
of plant names into antes and hoy dia. Unlike the established ethnobotanical assumption that bounded units of plant knowledge
are dying, the younger generations of villagers, who work both within and outside the village, know more plants useful to
their changing economic opportunities. Subsistence agriculturalists possess the adaptive plant knowledge skills to be stewards
of the environment. |
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