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- Title
Distribution of Herbal Remedy Knowledge in Tabi, Yucatan, Mexico.
- Authors
Hopkins, Allison; Stepp, John
- Abstract
Distribution of Herbal Remedy Knowledge in Tabi, Yucatan, Mexico. The distribution of herbal remedy knowledge among a group of people is studied for two main reasons: (1) to identify plants that are promising for pharmacological analysis, and (2) to examine the factors that lead to herbal remedy knowledge erosion as opposed to dynamism in the acquisition of knowledge. The goal of this particular study, which is aligned with the second reason, is to establish the variation in herbal remedy knowledge among the Yucatec Maya in Tabi, Yucatan, Mexico. Free listing and cultural consensus analysis revealed that knowledge about a few medicinal plants and herbal remedies was distributed widely among the Yucatec Maya in Tabi, whereas the majority of knowledge was idiosyncratic. This finding was consistent with other studies of herbal remedy knowledge distribution among indigenous groups in Latin America and Africa. Assessing patterns in the distribution of herbal remedy knowledge is an important next step in determining the degree of dynamism or erosion in knowledge acquisition and transmission in Tabi.
- Subjects
YUCATAN (Mexico : State); MEXICO; HERBAL medicine; PHARMACOLOGY; MEDICINAL plants
- Publication
Economic Botany, 2012, Vol 66, Issue 3, p249
- ISSN
0013-0001
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12231-012-9202-7