After the Spanish conquest of Mexico, many plants were introduced in the Mixtec Highlands as in the whole country. In this article, the names given to introduced plants in local Spanish and Mixtec are analysed from an ethnoscience point of view: How do new plants fit into indigenous classification? What do they reveal about social representations?
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TI - Las plantas exogenas en la taxonomia mixteca (Mexico)
AU - Katz, E.
AB - After the Spanish conquest of Mexico, many plants were introduced in the Mixtec Highlands as in the whole country. In this article, the names given to introduced plants in local Spanish and Mixtec are analysed from an ethnoscience point of view: How do new plants fit into indigenous classification? What do they reveal about social representations?
PY - 1998
UR - https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/469/
KW - ethnobotany, plant introduction, social impact
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%T Las plantas exogenas en la taxonomia mixteca (Mexico)
%A Katz, E.
%D 1998
%U https://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/469/
%X After the Spanish conquest of Mexico, many plants were introduced in the Mixtec Highlands as in the whole country. In this article, the names given to introduced plants in local Spanish and Mixtec are analysed from an ethnoscience point of view: How do new plants fit into indigenous classification? What do they reveal about social representations?
%K ethnobotany
%K plant introduction
%K social impact
Publication year
1998
Authors
Language
Spanish
Keywords
ethnobotany, plant introduction, social impact
Source
Etnobotanica. 92(Actas 1): 53-58
