Losing knowledge about plant use in the Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

The purpose of this paper is to document relationships between knowledge of plant use and indicators of modernization in Mexico. The model we are testing envisions increasing loss of plant use knowledge with increasing modernization indicated by loss of indigenous language and acquisition of nontrad...

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description The purpose of this paper is to document relationships between knowledge of plant use and indicators of modernization in Mexico. The model we are testing envisions increasing loss of plant use knowledge with increasing modernization indicated by loss of indigenous language and acquisition of nontraditional community services such as literacy and quality of housing. As predicted, we demonstrate that empirical knowledge about plant use is both more diverse and more evenly shared by people speaking an indigenous language-the Huastec-than by mestizo and Spanish-speaking indigenous populations in the Sierra de Manantlan. Our analyses also indicate that the adoption of modern community services by eight rural communities in the Sierra de Manantlan of western Mexico has had notable effects eroding traditional knowledge about useful plants in some but not all communities. From this we suggest that even though traditional knowledge about plants probably suffered a decline that accompanied loss of the indigenous language in Manantlan, traditional knowledge may be able to survive the modernization process today where such knowledge has an important role in subsistence. /// El propósito de este trabajo es documentar las relaciones entre el conocimiento del uso de las plantas y los indicadores de modernización en México. Nuestro modelo comprueba que el conocimiento sobre el uso de las plantas se está perdiendo debido al aumento de la modernización, por la pérdida del lenguaje índigena y la adquisición de servicios comunitarios no tradicionales tales como educación y calidad de vivienda. Como se predijo, nosotros demonstramos que el conocimiento empírico sobre el uso de plantas es más diverso y más compartido en la población indígena que aún conserva su propio lenguaje-los Huastecos-que en la población mestiza e indígena que habla español en la Sierra de Manantlán. Nuestros análisis también indican que la adopción de servicios comunitarios modernos en ocho localidades rurales de la sierra de Manantlán en el occidente de México han tenido notables efectos erosionando el conocimiento tradicional sobre el uso de las plantas en algunas de estas comunidades. Por lo tanto, nosotros sugerimos que aunque el conocimiento tradicional sobre el uso de las plantas probablemente está sufriendo una disminución la cual es acompañada con la pérdida del lenguaje indígena en la Sierra de Manantlán, el conocimiento tradicional puede ser capaz de sobrevivir al proceso de modernización actua
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Applied ecology
Biological and medical sciences
Biosphere
Biosphere reserves
Communities
Conservation, protection and management of environment and wildlife
Ecological economics
Economic botany
Empirical analysis
Ethnobotany
Forest conservation
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
housing
indicators
indigenous knowledge
Knowledge
Language
languages
literacy
Marginalization
Modernization
Native languages
Native peoples
Parks, reserves, wildlife conservation. Endangered species: population survey and restocking
Plants
prediction
public services and goods
Rural areas
Rural communities
rural population
simulation models
Socioeconomics
subsistence
Traditional knowledge
traditional society
uses
wild plants
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