Traditional food uses of wild plants among the Gorani of South Kosovo

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• 作者：Andrea Pieroni^a ; ^{a.pieroni@unisg.it} ; Renata Sõ ; ukand^b ; Cassandra L. Quave^c ; ^d ; Avni Hajdari^e ; Behxhet Mustafa^e
• 关键词：Ethnobotany ; Gorani ; Kosovo ; Wild food plants
• 刊名：Appetite
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：1 January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：108
• 期：Complete
• 页码：83-92
• 全文大小：489 K
• 卷排序：108

文摘

A food ethnobotanical field study was conducted among the Gorani of South Kosovo, a small ethnic minority group that speaks a South-Slavic language and lives in the south of the country. We conducted forty-one semi-structured interviews in ten villages of the Kosovar Gora mountainous area and found that seventy-nine wild botanical and mycological taxa represent the complex mosaic of the food cultural heritage in this population. A large portion of the wild food plant reports refer to fermented wild fruit-based beverages and herbal teas, while the role of wild vegetables is restricted. A comparison of these data with those previously collected among the Gorani living in nearby villages within the territory of Albania, who were separated in 1925 from their relatives living in present-day Kosovo, shows that approximately one third of the wild food plant reports are the same. This finding demonstrates the complex nature of Kosovar Gorani ethnobotany, which could indicate the permanence of possible “original” Gorani wild plant uses (mainly including wild fruits-based beverages), as well as elements of cultural adaptation to Serbian and Bosniak ethnobotanies (mainly including a few herbal teas and mushrooms).