| Title |
Women care about local knowledge, experiences from ethnomycology
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1746-4269-8-25 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Roberto Garibay-Orijel, Amaranta Ramírez-Terrazo, Marisa Ordaz-Velázquez |
| Abstract |
Gender is one of the main variables that influence the distribution of local knowledge. We carried out a literature review concerning local mycological knowledge, paying special attention to data concerning women's knowledge and comparative gender data. We found that unique features of local mycological knowledge allow people to successfully manage mushrooms. Women are involved in every stage of mushroom utilization from collection to processing and marketing. Local mycological knowledge includes the use mushrooms as food, medicine, and recreational objects as well as an aid to seasonal household economies. In many regions of the world, women are often the main mushroom collectors and possess a vast knowledge about mushroom taxonomy, biology, and ecology. Local experts play a vital role in the transmission of local mycological knowledge. Women participate in the diffusion of this knowledge as well as in its enrichment through innovation. Female mushroom collectors appreciate their mycological knowledge and pursue strategies and organization to reproduce it in their communities. Women mushroom gatherers are conscious of their knowledge, value its contribution in their subsistence systems, and proudly incorporate it in their cultural identity. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 100% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Uganda | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 114 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 22 | 19% |
| Researcher | 18 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 22 | 19% |
| Unknown | 22 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 47 | 40% |
| Environmental Science | 12 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 8% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 3% |
| Chemistry | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 14 | 12% |
| Unknown | 28 | 24% |
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