Incorporating "intangible" cultural uses into ethnobotanical research: a case study of the Kempo Manggarai
2004
Sudirman, Z.(Tado Community Research and Education Center (P3MT), Flores Island (Indonesia))E-mail:[email protected]
While most academic ethnobotanical studies focus on a limited number of plant taxa, specific plant genera, or only certain categories of plant uses (e.g., medicinal or culinary), indigenous communities treat plants more holistically, grounded in a multifaceted context which includes historical, ecological, economic, social, cultural, medicinal, spiritual, agricultural, and aesthetic considerations. This paper reviews a selection of plants with intrinsic cultural value-plants that play a role in the historical evolution, stories, songs, ceremonies, lifecycle and agricultural rituals of the Kempo Manggarai, an ethnic group located in the southwestern corner of Flores Island. The example shared are drawn from ongoing ethnobotanical research which has documented over 600 uses of approximately 300 useful plant species. The paper discusses the importance of including both tangible and intangible uses of plants as part of a more comprehensive approach to ethnobotanical studies conducted in areas of high biological and cultural diversity.
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