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Linking Local Plants with Small Handicraft Enterprises among Indigenous M apuche Communities: Towards a Combined Approach of Local Development and Enhancement of Ethnobotanical Knowledge?
Author(s) -
TORRI MARIA C.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12208
Subject(s) - handicraft , ethnobotany , traditional knowledge , indigenous , work (physics) , local development , business , geography , traditional medicine , regional science , engineering , medicinal plants , ecology , biology , medicine , mechanical engineering , archaeology
There is a paucity of studies analysing the role of ethnobotanical knowledge for handicraft and local development. Thus, more work is required to expand the range of detailed case studies on which to draw. The objective of this article is to analyse an initiative promoted by a pioneering experience of its kind in the A raucaria region, C hile, which is centred on traditional knowledge of M apuche communities. By identifying what lessons can be drawn from this experience, this study analyses the factors that can promote synergies between handicraft and conservation of local plants from which resources are derived for handicraft.