Ethnobotany and traditional knowledge in the Northeastern Portugal: Past and present plant use and management.
Conference Paper
Overview
Research
Additional Document Info
View All
Overview
abstract
PRODEP Program (2000-2005); FCT (2004-2008); ON2,QREN,FEDER (2009-2011.
Resumo publicado da comunicação oral apresentada no painel Portuguese Ethnobotany do VIII International Ethnobotany Symposium, Lisboa, Portugal
Traditional plant use was/is largely based on a rich and diverse wild flora existing in the Portuguese north-eastern region and on daily agricultural practices and management. Decades of isolation and economic and social constrains promoted a local knowledge and expertise and constructed a folk plant-use system which is suffering a recent decline, although the persistence of some plant-based uses applied simultaneous with modern trends, recently introduced in local culture by present-day media, popular books and middle-aged emigrants returning home, for instance.
