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Thesis
Medicinal plant use of the Shipibo Indians of the Peruvian montaña
Washington State University
Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
05/1985
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000007354
Abstract
This thesis contains information provided by several Shipibo Indians on the subject of their medicinal plant use. Interviews were conducted with several individuals, including shaman, in the village of San Francisco de Yarinacocha and the neighboring communities of Santa Clara and Nuevo Destine.
Information on 151 "medicinal plants" {rao, in Shipibo) was collected during four dry months of 1981 and 1984. Based on a first account of Shipibo ethnotaxonomy, included here, the plant data are organized according to Shipibo botanical categories.
A preliminary schematic representation of Shipibo ethnobotany is presented, providing the reader with a taxonomic system in which to organize medicinal plant information.
It is expected that the information presented here will add evidence to Amazonian tribal cosmological models constructed by ethnographers; and augment models proposed by cultural ecologists identifying the adaptive lifestyles of tribal subsistance cultures.
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- Title
- Medicinal plant use of the Shipibo Indians of the Peruvian montaña
- Creators
- Thomas Clayton Lamar
- Contributors
- John H Bodley (Chair) - Washington State University, Department of AnthropologyELDON H FRANZ (Committee Member)Linda S Stone (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Department of Anthropology
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- School of the Environment (CAHNRS)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 155
- Identifiers
- 99901225853901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis