A hundred years of change in wild vegetable use in southern Herzegovina

Łuczaj, Łukasz; Dolina, Katija

doi:10.1016/j.jep.2015.02.033

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“…Thus, recording of the use of wild vegetables is important also from the toxicological point of view. This is also the case in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where among the wild vegetables consumed, some had not been reported as edible before [15,16].…”

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“…It is sometimes even said that eating wild greens is a "hidden" part of the Mediterranean diet [11,12]. However, even there this use is declining [10,[12][13][14][15][16][17]. The decrease in the usage of other categories of wild foods in the Mediterranean is probably less profound (e.g., [15,18]).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…All these studies show that the use of wild vegetables in coastal Croatia has been widespread and is to some degree practiced today. Łuczaj and Dolina made a comparison between wild vegetables listed in an old ethnographic paper from 1913 and the current use in the neighboring part of Bosnia-Herzegovina [15]. It showed that over half of the wild vegetables used previously are still used.…”

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A century of changes in wild food plant use in coastal Croatia: the example of Krk and Poljica

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The aim of this study was to document the use of wild foods in two locations in the coastal part of Croatia -on the island of Krk and in the Poljica area, near Split. We chose these places as they have historical data on plant use (1900 and 1903 respectively). We carried out 67 interviews in Poljica and 55 interviews in Krk to estimate the current use and knowledge of wild foods. Altogether, 80 species of wild food and herbal tea species of plants were recorded in Poljica and 76 in Krk. On average, 13.2 species were listed by per interview in Poljica, including 7.1 species of wild vegetables, and in Krk 14.6 species, including 7.9 species of wild vegetables. Out of the list of plant names recorded in the past, in Krk, we identified 82% of the taxa and in Poljica 86%.

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“…Although biological availability is widespread, plant use and traditional knowledge are exclusive to some countries, and the cultural importance of common taxa is very different in each regional gastronomy. Numerous studies carried out by different researchers contribute to important ethnobotanical, anthropological, socioeconomic, and nutritional information about wild edible plant consumption and associated local knowledge in southern Europe (Dogan et al 2015;Ertug 2000;Ghirardini et al 2007;Guarrera & Savo 2013;Łuczaj & Dolina 2015;Pieroni & Giusti 2009;Pieroni et al 2002;Sansanelli & Tassoni 2014;Turner et al 2011).…”

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The Consumption of Wild Edible Plants

Carvalho

Barata

2016

Wild Plants, Mushrooms and Nuts

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“…Most of the previous studies were mainly aimed at medicinal and edible plants and traditional handicrafts [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] and shed new light on existing ethnological and anthropological data. Some studies investigated small ethnic groups living in more or less isolated communities and provided new and very important data about the characteristics, storage, and transfer of the region's traditional knowledge [6,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. These not only addressed the specific features of the region, but also contributed to the understanding of complex historical and social processes that by far exceed the limitations of the mechanical documentation of botanical data.…”

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Folk food and medicinal botanical knowledge among the last remaining Yörüks of the Balkans

2017

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The present study examines the current lifestyle of the last remaining Balkan Yörüks, a small and isolated group found within the Republic of Macedonia, and the modern representatives of an important portion of the Balkan nomads. The aim of this study was to document knowledge concerning local wild food plants and wild and cultivated medicinal plants, and to compare the Yörük ethnobotany with that of similar, more or less isolated ethnic groups occurring in the Balkan region (Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, and Turkey) in order to assess how cultural adaptation processes may have affected Yörük plant folklore. We conducted this study by means of detailed, semi-structured interviews with 48 key informants.Sixty-seven plant taxa were recorded from 55 genera, based on the compilation of more than 150 reports relating to medicinal, food, forage, ornamental, and dye plants, as well as some elements relating to animals and minerals. Our field study data show several major ethnic boundary markers that contribute to the homogeneity of the community and also distinguish it sufficiently from the surrounding society: (i) well-isolated locality; (ii) local dialect and endogamy; (iii) casual clothing worn by women; (iv) ceremonial jewelry: a necklace of cloves (Syzygium aromaticum); (v) Sempervivum marmoreum as an only ornamental plant which also has a medicinal use; and (vi) Mentha spicata as the dominant culinary herb, which has a medicinal use too. Comparison of the collected ethnobotanical data with that of similar, more or less isolated ethnic groups in the Balkan region shows that overlapping taxa include mainly plants whose fresh fruit are used; both nuts as well as edible greens. These plants are simultaneously used for medicinal purposes too, as home remedies, but in very different ways to other ethnic groups.Yörüks represent a remarkable cultural group in the Balkans. This community has nomadic traditions, but nowadays the people have a settled lifestyle. Traditional knowledge remains strong and is retained within a well-defined cultural boundary.

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A hundred years of change in wild vegetable use in southern Herzegovina

Cited by 73 publications

References 42 publications

A century of changes in wild food plant use in coastal Croatia: the example of Krk and Poljica

A century of changes in wild food plant use in coastal Croatia: the example of Krk and Poljica

The Consumption of Wild Edible Plants

Folk food and medicinal botanical knowledge among the last remaining Yörüks of the Balkans

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