Plant knowledge of the Shuhi in the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China

	Plant knowledge of the Shuhi in the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China
	Weckerle, CS ; Huber, FK ; Yang, YP; Sun, WB
通讯作者	weckerle@ethnobot.ch ; huber@ethnobot.ch ; yangyp@mail.kib.ac.cn ; wbsun@mail.kib.ac.cn
	2006-03-01
发表期刊	ECONOMIC BOTANY
ISSN	0013-0001
卷号	60 期号:1 页码:3-23
摘要	The Shuhi are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group of around 1,500 people living exclusively in the Shuiluo Valley, southwest China. We documented their plant knowledge concerning wild collected species, and analyzed food, medicine, and ritual uses. Overall, uses, collection sites, and use frequencies of 136 plant species were documented. The plants were divided in fodder (46 spp.), food (43 spp.), medicine (27 spp.), ritual plants (20 spp.), fuelwood (17 spp.), plants used for construction (8 spp.), ornamentals (2 spp.), and "others" (34 spp.). rood plains mainly consist of fruits and leafy vegetables, and the uses are comparable with those of other ethnic groups in the area. Knowledge about medicinal plants is relatively limited, since traditional Shuhi healers use ritual and other healing methods instead of medicinal plants. Ritual plants play an important role relative to human well-being. Villagers and ritualists use them to keep the environment clean of malevolent spirits and to maintain a good relationship with the deities. All habitats, front the dry shrub vegetation at the valley bottom up to the alpine shrub, are used for plant collection, but 87% of all species art, collected in the near vicinity of the villages around the fields and in the dry shrub vegetation. Finally we postulate two main factors influencing wild plain use among the Shuhi: cultural values and accessibility.; The Shuhi are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group of around 1,500 people living exclusively in the Shuiluo Valley, southwest China. We documented their plant knowledge concerning wild collected species, and analyzed food, medicine, and ritual uses. Overall, uses, collection sites, and use frequencies of 136 plant species were documented. The plants were divided in fodder (46 spp.), food (43 spp.), medicine (27 spp.), ritual plants (20 spp.), fuelwood (17 spp.), plants used for construction (8 spp.), ornamentals (2 spp.), and "others" (34 spp.). rood plains mainly consist of fruits and leafy vegetables, and the uses are comparable with those of other ethnic groups in the area. Knowledge about medicinal plants is relatively limited, since traditional Shuhi healers use ritual and other healing methods instead of medicinal plants. Ritual plants play an important role relative to human well-being. Villagers and ritualists use them to keep the environment clean of malevolent spirits and to maintain a good relationship with the deities. All habitats, front the dry shrub vegetation at the valley bottom up to the alpine shrub, are used for plant collection, but 87% of all species art, collected in the near vicinity of the villages around the fields and in the dry shrub vegetation. Finally we postulate two main factors influencing wild plain use among the Shuhi: cultural values and accessibility.
关键词	Ethnobotany Food Plants Medicinal Plants Ritual Plants Shuiluo Valley Tibeto-burman
学科领域	Plant Sciences
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000236988600001
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/2641
专题	中国科学院青藏高原研究所昆明部
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Kunming 650204, Peoples R China 2.Univ Zurich, Inst Systemat Bot, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Weckerle, CS,Huber, FK,Yang, YP,et al. Plant knowledge of the Shuhi in the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China[J]. ECONOMIC BOTANY,2006,60(1):3-23.
APA	Weckerle, CS,Huber, FK,Yang, YP,&Sun, WB.(2006).Plant knowledge of the Shuhi in the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China.ECONOMIC BOTANY,60(1),3-23.
MLA	Weckerle, CS,et al."Plant knowledge of the Shuhi in the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China".ECONOMIC BOTANY 60.1(2006):3-23.

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