Plant names and uses as indicators of knowledge patterns

Plant names and uses as indicators of knowledge patterns

Merlin Franco F & D Narasimhan

Cross-cultural comparison of ethnobotanical knowledge of various communities can bring out the different patterns of knowledge held by them. The paper looks into the knowledge patterns among the Kondh, Poraja, Hill Bonda and Gadaba of the Koraput region by comparing their knowledge on 20 different plants.

Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge , Vol. 8 (4), October 2009, pp. 645-648. Available at http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/6289/1/IJTK%208(4)%20645-648.pdf