Indigenous knowledge and development : livelihoods, health experiences, and medicinal plant knowledge in a Mexican biosphere reserve /
Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve provides an ethnographic account of the Nahua, a group of Indigenous people living in a protected area in west central Mexico. The study moves back and forth between th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lanham, MD :
Lexington Books,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve provides an ethnographic account of the Nahua, a group of Indigenous people living in a protected area in west central Mexico. The study moves back and forth between the macro and micro to explore the relationships between three central axes-health, livelihood and cultural knowledge. This anthropological study presents analysis based on household level socioeconomic data and cultural knowledge measured through the use of both structured and semi-structured interview. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 181 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780739176641 0739176641 130651231X 9781306512312 |