Ethnobotanical knowledge acquisition during daily chores: the firewood collection of pastoral Maasai girls in Southern Kenya

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• 作者：Xiaojie Tian
• 关键词：Traditional ecological knowledge ; Pastoral Maasai ; Children ; Daily practice ; Adaptive knowledge acquisition
• 刊名：Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：13
• 期：1
• 全文大小：835KB
• 刊物主题：Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Biodiversity; Ecology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1746-4269
• 卷排序：13

文摘

BackgroundResearchers considering children’s traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) highlighted the importance of examining children’s daily activities as empirical contexts for its acquisition. Many of them evaluated children’s TEK acquisition linearly as gain or loss, and paid less attention to the adaptive nature of this knowledge system and the social relationships arising from its acquisition processes. This study approaches children’s TEK acquisition considering these abovementioned aspects. I utilize pastoral Maasai girls’ firewood collection as a case study, and analyze the personal, interpersonal and cultural institutional aspects of girls’ Ethnobotanical knowledge (EK) acquisition within this chore.