A Regression Analysis of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicinal Plants from Southern Belize

Amiguet, Virginie Treyvaud; Arnason, John T.; Maquin, Pedro; Cal, Victor; Sánchez-Vindas, Pablo; Álvarez, Luis Poveda

doi:10.1663/0013-0001(2006)60[24:araoqm]2.0.co;2

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“…Similar patterns have been observed in Brazil (Da Cunha and De Albuquerque 2006 ) and Peru (Phillips and Gentry 1993a ) , for an Afro-American nontribal community in the Colombian Chocó (Galeano 2000 ) , and among indigenous peoples in Ecuador (Paz y Mino et al 1995 ) , Belize (Amiguet et al 2005 ) , and Indonesia (Caniago and Siebert 1998 ) . Working with a Mayan community in the Yucatan, Torre-Cuadros and Isbele ( 2003 ) found a weak but positive relationship between availability (ecological Importance Value Index, IVI) and use value (UV s ).…”

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confidence: 67%

Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America

Hoffman

2012

African Ethnobotany in the Americas

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Despite the increasing use of quantitative methods in ethnobotany, there has been relatively little advance in understanding of cross-cultural patterns. Within three tropical forest vegetation zones, I documented and compared local plant knowledge, categorical use, and resource selection for a short-resident (±300 years) Afro-American Saramacca "Maroon" community and an indigenous Caribanspeaking Trio community. For 3-4 male specialists at each site, the "recognition" and use of stems ³ 10 cm dbh in forest plots (0.5-1 ha) was recorded. Comparative methods included quantitative use value indices and categorized uses (construction, edible, medicine, technology, and trade). The Trio emphasized medicinal uses regardless of vegetation zone. Saramacca use value was greatest within fallow forest, exceeded Trio knowledge for "construction" and "trade," and emphasized timber and carving species. For both groups, the use value of most taxa (family and species) was correlated with "apparency" (abundance, species richness), with the exception of palms and major cultural species. As hypothesized, Trio indigenous knowledge was greater -with more biological species named (97.3% vs. 83.9%) and utilized (87.7% vs. 66.9%) and more uses cited per species. However, the shorter-resident Saramacca Maroon participants still revealed a robust knowledge and use of woody plant diversity.

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Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America

Hoffman

2012

African Ethnobotany in the Americas

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“…We agree with this critique and therefore used contingency table and binomial analysis instead. Among the literature sources that applied the regression residual approach, the most frequently and widely overused medicinal plant family is the Asteraceae (Moerman, 1996;Moerman et al, 1999;Leonti et al, 2003;Treyvaud Amiguet et al, 2006). In Apillapampa, Asteraceae is the most important medicinal family in terms of species used (85 out of 112), but it is not overused.…”

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“…Determining the usefulness of plant families generally pertains to the domain of scientific researchers (e.g. Moerman, 1996;Treyvaud Amiguet et al, 2006;Bennett and Husby, 2008), whereas local people are ideally placed to assess the usefulness of particular plant species for particular applications, as the latter can rely on empirical knowledge accumulated over several years to generations of practice.…”

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Cultural significance of medicinal plant families and species among Quechua farmers in Apillapampa, Bolivia

Thomas

Vandebroek

Sanca³

et al. 2009

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

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“…All of these families of plants contain species that are medicinal in function. Although, Piperaceae and Asteraceae are two of the most popular families of plants used for making medicines by the regional Q'eqchi' Maya (Amiguet et al 2006), one phytolith identified in Sample TL-6 (Figure 8e) is diagnostic of Maranta arundinacea L., or arrowroot. (Chandler-Ezell et al 2006, Piperno 1989, 2006.…”

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“…Among the Q'eqchi' of Belize, Asteraceae is the third most commonly used plant family for making medicines (Amiguet et al 2006), and it is one of the most commonly used families of plants for manufacturing medicines worldwide. In particular, Asteraceae ranks first among the plant families used in the pharmacopoeias of indigenous peoples in Veracruz, Chiapas, certain parts of North America, and Korea (Leonti et al 2003, Moerman et al 1999.…”

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Linking Past and Present: A preliminary paleoethnobotanical study of Maya nutritional and medicinal plant use and sustainable cultivation in the Southern Maya Mountains, Belize

Abramiuk

Dunham

Cummings³

et al. 2011

Ethnobot. Res. App.

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Paleoethnobotanical analysis of anthropogenic soils sampled from archaeological features dating to the Classic Maya Period (A.D. 250-900) reveal diagnostic phytoliths that help the authors bring to light evidence of a novel sustainable agricultural strategy and a variety of nutritional and medicinal plants that were utilized by the Classic Maya of the Maya Mountains, Belize, Central America. Given the archaeological context of these phytoliths, the authors infer that the plants from which they were derived were exploited by the Classic Maya of the region. These discoveries have the potential for improving health and wellness regionally in the present since the agricultural strategy that is reconstructed demonstrates an intensive means of cultivation that has the potential of sustaining large, dense populations. The nutritional and medicinal plants alluded to, in turn, provide further evidence in support of the utilization of traditional knowledge in sustaining community health and wellness. IntroductionIn recent years, the view of the ancient Maya, as imprudent exploiters of their environment with little regard for sustainability (e.g., Diamond 2005), has begun to change (Ford & Nigh 2009). Research has shown that the Maya lowlands during the Classic period (A.D. 250-900) were one of the most densely populated areas in the world (Fagan 2004:284). In some regions in the Maya lowlands, such as the southern Maya Mountains, population density estimates near 300 persons per squared kilometer (Abramiuk 1998). This estimate is quite staggering, especially if we consider that the people of this particular region had no efficient means for importing foodstuffs and therefore Published: June 30, 2011 Ethnobotany Research & Applications 258www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol9/i1547-3465-09-257.pdf

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A Regression Analysis of Q'eqchi' Maya Medicinal Plants from Southern Belize

Cited by 44 publications

References 7 publications

Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America

Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America

Cultural significance of medicinal plant families and species among Quechua farmers in Apillapampa, Bolivia

Linking Past and Present: A preliminary paleoethnobotanical study of Maya nutritional and medicinal plant use and sustainable cultivation in the Southern Maya Mountains, Belize

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