44. Ethnoveterinary Medicine and Development - A review of the literature

Mathias-Mundy, Evelyn; McCorkle, Constance M.

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“…With few exceptions, veterinary and human mycology deals with the same fungal pathogens (Acha and Szyfres, 2003) and, therefore, the traditional or popular experience regarding the treatment of animal mycoses (ethnoveterinary treatments) is considered nowadays a valuable knowledge for the discovery of new antifungal drugs for human beings (McCorkle, 1986;Mathias-Mundy and McCorkle, 1995).…”

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Ethnoveterinary medicine in the search for antimicrobial agents: Antifungal activity of some species of Pterocaulon (Asteraceae)

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Avancini

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Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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Ethnoveterinary medicine in the search for antimicrobial agents: Antifungal activity of some species of Pterocaulon (Asteraceae)

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“…This has not been the only approach, and much work focuses on the hybridity of knowledge and culture (Feierman & Janzen, ). Useful research has been conducted into ethnoveterinary practices in Africa, recognizing the efficacy of local ways of addressing everyday challenges to African agricultural and especially pastoral production systems (Mathias‐Mundy & McCorkle ; Waller & Homewood ). Scholarship in South Africa has belatedly caught up with this emphasis on local veterinary knowledge (Dold & Cocks ; Luseba & van der Merwe ).…”

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Animal disease and the limits of local knowledge: dealing with ticks and tick‐borne diseases in South Africa

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Beinart

2013

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Some proponents of local knowledge, such as Paul Sillitoe, have expressed second thoughts about its capacity to effect development on the ‘revolutionary’ scale once predicted. Our argument in this article follows a similar route. Recent research into the management of livestock in South Africa makes clear that rural African livestock farmers experience uncertainty in relation to the control of stock diseases. State provision of veterinary services has been significantly reduced over the past decade. Both white and African livestock owners are to a greater extent left to their own devices. In some areas of animal disease management, African livestock owners have recourse to tried‐and‐tested local remedies, which are largely plant‐based. But especially in the critical sphere of tick control, efficacious treatments are less evident, and livestock owners struggle to find adequate solutions to high tickloads. This is particularly important in South Africa in the early twenty‐first century because land reform and the freedom to purchase land in the post‐apartheid context afford African stockowners opportunities to expand livestock holdings. Our research suggests that the limits of local knowledge in dealing with ticks is one of the central problems faced by African livestock owners. We judge this in relation not only to efficacy but also to the perceptions of livestock owners themselves. While confidence and practice vary, and there is increasing resort to chemical acaricides, we were struck by the uncertainty of livestock owners over the best strategies.

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“…Moreover, people's folk knowledge of human bodies, their processes and pathologies is closely allied to their experience and understanding of the same dimensions of the animals with which they come into contact, especially if they are domesticated. It is no wonder, therefore, that there is a significant overlap in the herbal treatments reported for humans and those found in the ethnoveterinary literature (Mathias‐Mundy & McCorkle 1995). Similarly, just as different medical systems often, and increasingly, coexist in the same place and, indeed, are combined in the therapies of some practitioners and in the minds of consumers (e.g.…”

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Ellen

2006

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This introduction to the volume argues for the central and integrating role of the subject matter of ethnobiological research in anthropology understood in its widest sense: in its biological, archaeo-historical, and socio-cultural dimensions. The background and current status of ethnobiology are assessed, and its contribution to anthropological issues considered under the following headings: the foundational paradigm of taxonomic orthodoxy; language and the translation of knowledge systems; cognition and culture; the social organization and transmission of knowledge; medical ethnobiology; the applied practice of ethnobiology; and -the meta-theory which binds all this together -the co-evolutionary paradigm as part of a wider 'biocultural synthesis'. The way in which the collected papers exemplify these themes is discussed. BackgroundThis volume explores the contribution of recent work in ethnobiology 1 to anthropological insights in the widest sense. As a project, it arises from the observation that, increasingly, the subject matter and methodologies of ethnobiological research address core questions about the character of culture, language, cognition, knowledge, and human subsistence, and how these interact through, for example, long-term processes of co-evolution. We seek to provide here some kind of qualitative test of the assertion that ethnobiology stands at an important intellectual junction between biology, culture, and sociality; a view which the authors of this collection share, but which is not necessarily or always apparent in the practice of individual exponents. That ethnobiology has not always been seen to occupy such a critical position also needs explaining. In order to meet such a requirement, this introduction supplies some historical background to developments that have taken place over the last fifty years or thereabouts. We are, however, mostly concerned with current work, and indeed with the prospects for future research in this field of study. We offer, therefore, a retrospective certainly, but also and most importantly, a tentative prospective.Richard Ford () once memorably said that ethnobotany -but we can extend the point to ethnobiology as a whole -represented a common discourse but lacked a unifying theory. Since that observation was made things have changed. Certainly, ethnobotany, at least, is now replete with methods manuals (Alexiades ; Martin Introduction S2 Roy Ellen J. Roy. Anthrop. Inst. (N.S.), S-S © Royal Anthropological Institute 2006 categories, language, and intellectual issues of global (no longer purely Occidental) scholarship.Ethnobiology is now as much analytic as it is descriptive, and has begun to develop conspicuously its own theory. Like ethnography, it has made a virtue of its practice, and like social anthropology, it is as much defined by its methods as by its theory. Areas where ethnobiological methods and theory have become particularly distinctive include: resource pool approaches; quantitative plot studies; the links between biological and cultura...

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44. Ethnoveterinary Medicine and Development - A review of the literature

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Ethnoveterinary medicine in the search for antimicrobial agents: Antifungal activity of some species of Pterocaulon (Asteraceae)

Ethnoveterinary medicine in the search for antimicrobial agents: Antifungal activity of some species of Pterocaulon (Asteraceae)

Animal disease and the limits of local knowledge: dealing with ticks and tick‐borne diseases in South Africa

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