Argentina

Traditional Mapuche Ecological Knowledge in Patagonia, Argentina: Fishes and Other Living Being Inhabiting Continental Water, as a Reflection of Processes of Change
By: Juana Aigo & Ana Ladio
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
(2016) 12:56
Key words: Ethnoichthyology, Fluvial environments, Fish, Perceptions, Mapuche Ecological Knowledge
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5143445/
Understanding how people interpret environmental change and develop practices in response to such change is essential to comprehend human resource use. In the cosmology of the American indigenous peoples, as among the Mapuche people, freshwater systems are considered a living entity, where animals have an enormous role to play in the universe of meaning. However, human adaptive responses to freshwater system dynamics are scarcely examined. In this work a survey is carried out in three Mapuche communities of Argentine Patagonia to assess their traditional knowledge of the fishes and other non-human living beings that inhabit lakes and rivers.

Cultural Transmission of Traditional Knowledge in two populations of North-western Patagonia
By: Cecilia Eyssartier, Ana H. Ladio, and Mariana Lozada
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 4:25
December 15, 2008
Keywords: Patagonia, ethnobotany, cultural transmission, gardens, Mapuche
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614966/
The authors utilize methodologies of ethnobotanical fieldwork among indigenous Mapuche people of Patagonia to study the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge related to horticultural practices. In addition to learning about the transmission of this knowledge, researchers gathered data on which plant species were known and for what purposes plants were customarily utilized. This information is important as non-native species continue to be introduced and increase in rates of cultivation.