Collecting plant genetic resources in Cuba. Report on the fourth mission, March 1989

Esquivel, M.; Shagarodsky, Tomás; Hammer, Karl

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“…The total number of migrants has been estimated at around 30,000; many French-Haitian slaves accompanied the French to work in newly established coffee plantations (cafetales) in the eastern Cuban provinces (Guanche 1983;Portuondo 1992). By this means, several plants from more temperate climes were introduced (Roig 1965;Esquivel et al 1990). The second and more relevant phase occurred between 1913-1930, when more than a half a million Haitians entered the country legally or illegally (Pérez de la Riva 1979; Guanche and Garcia 2000).…”

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Migration and Ethnobotanical Practices: The Case of Tifey Among Haitian Immigrants in Cuba

Volpato

Godínez²,

Beyra³

2008

Hum Ecol

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Ethnobotanical knowledge and practices are dynamic and they change as they are transferred and appropriated by people who are adapting to new surroundings and changing environments. Using tifey, a multispecies drink, as a case study, we discuss the changes that emigration brought about related to tifey, and the processes that determined these changes. Tifey is a Haitian drink prepared by soaking Artemisia absinthium and other plants in rum or aguardiente. It probably had its origin in the adoption of the absinthe-based liquor used by French settlers and troops during the colonial period. Haitians progressively added culturally relevant flavorings and medicinal plants to this drink, and differentiated its production and use for medicinal, medicinal food, ritual (religious and social), and economic purposes. When Haitians migrated to Cuba, they brought tifey with them, but over the course of the twentieth century its use declined and its composition changed due to sociocultural factors such as the dissolution of Haitian settlements, and to ecological factors such as difficulty in cultivation and/or procurement of A. absinthium in the new environment.

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Migration and Ethnobotanical Practices: The Case of Tifey Among Haitian Immigrants in Cuba

Volpato

Godínez²,

Beyra³

2008

Hum Ecol

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Additional notes to the checklist of Cuban cultivated plants (2)

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Checklists are considered as useful tools for exploration work in plant genetic resources programmes. New information is presented for the checklist of Cuban cultivated plants (ESQUIVEL et al. 1989). 107 species were newly included. For a few other species additional data are given. This information is the result of two further collecting missions in Cuba. Fodder crops predominate, as a result of the cooperation with a specialist in this field. A computerized database was developed allowing not only to maintain the information but also to standardize nomenclatural abbreviations, e.g. authority and protologue.

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The Cuban homegarden ?conuco?: a perspective environment for evolution and in situ conservation of plant genetic resources

Esquivel

Hammer

1992

Genet Resour Crop Evol

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Collecting plant genetic resources in Cuba. Report on the fourth mission, March 1989

Cited by 5 publications

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Migration and Ethnobotanical Practices: The Case of Tifey Among Haitian Immigrants in Cuba

Migration and Ethnobotanical Practices: The Case of Tifey Among Haitian Immigrants in Cuba

Additional notes to the checklist of Cuban cultivated plants (2)

The Cuban homegarden ?conuco?: a perspective environment for evolution and in situ conservation of plant genetic resources

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