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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 20th Anniversary Collection

New Content Item2025 marks an exciting milestone for the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (JEET). We celebrate 20 years of publishing research and timely reviews on cultural perceptions of nature and of human and animal health. For 20 years, the JEET has been advancing the field through groundbreaking articles that shed light on the inextricable links between human societies and nature, food, and health. While creating a diverse, innovative forum for research about local and indigenous ecological knowledge, the JEET has amplified the role of ethnobiology in supporting the ecological transition, sustainability sciences, urban transformations, and citizen science.

In this 20th anniversary collection, we feature a selection of articles that have received exceptional visibility and readership over the past 20 years, and that represent the fascinating range of topics covered by the JEET. While this selection is only a limited sample of the many other excellent articles published in the JEET, this collection aims to celebrate and thank the outstanding community of scientists and experts who have been building this journal tirelessly over the past 20 years, and to demonstrate the lasting impact of their work on developments in the field.

Published Articles in this Collection

  1. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the French overseas department of French Guiana, South America, nearly doubles that in its European counterpart, Metropolitan France. This region is demographically d...

    Authors: Michael Rapinski, Alain Cuerrier and Damien Davy
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2024 20:83
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  2. Hybridization between the local medical systems (LMSs) and biomedicine has been the focus of different studies in ethnobiology, primarily due to the increasing access to biomedicine by indigenous peoples and l...

    Authors: Jorge Izaquiel Alves de Siqueira, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Washington Soares Ferreira-Júnior, Flávia Rosa Santoro and Luci de Senna Valle
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2024 20:76
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  3. Frederico José de Santa-Anna Nery (1848–1901) was a Brazilian Baron who referred to himself as a "volunteer propagandist" for Brazil in Europe, serving as an immigration agent to publicize the living condition...

    Authors: Lucas N. R. Silva, Elaine C. P. Oliveira and Leopoldo C. Baratto
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2024 20:26
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  5. The hot–cold classification system for things and concepts is widely used by many human groups in Mexico. We conducted a comprehensive review to understand the history, themes, and distribution of this system.

    Authors: Karina Yaredi García-Hernández, Luis Alberto Vargas-Guadarrama and Heike Vibrans
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2023 19:50
    Content type: Review Published on:

  7. Plant-derived products have an imperative biological role against certain pathogenic organisms and were considered to be a major source of modern drugs. Rural people residing in developing countries are relyin...

    Authors: Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Adnan, Amir Hasan Khan, Abdelaaty Abdelaziz Shahat, Mansour S. Al-Said and Riaz Ullah
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2018 14:2
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  8. This paper represents the first ethnobotanical study in Chail valley of district Swat-Pakistan and provides significant information on medicinal plants use among the tribal people of the area. The aim of this ...

    Authors: Mushtaq Ahmad, Shazia Sultana, Syed Fazl-i-Hadi, Taibi ben Hadda, Sofia Rashid, Muhammad Zafar, Mir Ajab Khan, Muhammad Pukhtoon Zada Khan and Ghulam Yaseen
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2014 10:36
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  9. The association among food and health is momentous as consumers now demand healthy, tasty and natural functional foods. Knowledge of such food is mainly transmitted through the contribution of individuals of h...

    Authors: Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Mir Ajab Khan, Munir H Shah, Mohammad Maroof Shah, Arshad Pervez and Mushtaq Ahmad
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013 9:66
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  12. Human values and folklore of wildlife strongly influence the effectiveness of conservation efforts. These values and folklore may also vary with certain demographic characteristics such as gender, age, or educ...

    Authors: Luis MP Ceríaco
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2012 8:8
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  13. Ethnobotanical studies are crucial in South-Eastern Europe for fostering local development and also for investigating the dynamics of Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) related to plants in one of the m...

    Authors: Behxhet Mustafa, Avni Hajdari, Feriz Krasniqi, Esat Hoxha, Hatixhe Ademi, Cassandra L Quave and Andrea Pieroni
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2012 8:6
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  14. The objective of this study was to establish a regional profile of the indigenous knowledge system (IKS) for medicinal plant use and cultural practices associated with the healing process of these plants by tr...

    Authors: Ahmad Cheikhyoussef, Martin Shapi, Kenneth Matengu and Hina Mu Ashekele
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2011 7:10
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  16. Food taboos are known from virtually all human societies. Most religions declare certain food items fit and others unfit for human consumption. Dietary rules and regulations may govern particular phases of the...

    Authors: Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2009 5:18
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. Hunting for wild animals is stimulated by the many different human uses of faunal resources, and these animals constitute important subsistence items in local communities in the Caatinga region. In order to ga...

    Authors: Rômulo RN Alves, Lívia ET Mendonça, Maine VA Confessor, Washington LS Vieira and Luiz CS Lopez
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2009 5:12
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  18. Bear bile has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for thousands of years. Modern investigations showed that it has a wide range of pharmacological actions with little toxicological side effect and ...

    Authors: Yibin Feng, Kayu Siu, Ning Wang, Kwan-Ming Ng, Sai-Wah Tsao, Tadashi Nagamatsu and Yao Tong
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2009 5:2
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  19. A comparative food ethnobotanical study was carried out in fifteen local communities distributed in five districts in the Palestinian Authority, PA (northern West Bank), six of which were located in Nablus, tw...

    Authors: Mohammed S Ali-Shtayeh, Rana M Jamous, Jehan H Al-Shafie', Wafa' A Elgharabah, Fatemah A Kherfan, Kifayeh H Qarariah, Isra' S Khdair, Israa M Soos, Aseel A Musleh, Buthainah A Isa, Hanan M Herzallah, Rasha B Khlaif, Samiah M Aiash, Ghadah M Swaiti, Muna A Abuzahra, Maha M Haj-Ali…
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2008 4:13
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  20. We compare traditional knowledge and use of wild edible plants in six rural regions of the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula as follows: Campoo, Picos de Europa, Piloña, Sanabria and Caurel in Spain and Parqu...

    Authors: Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Javier Tardío, Emilio Blanco, Ana Maria Carvalho, Juan José Lastra, Elia San Miguel and Ramón Morales
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2007 3:27
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  21. The knowledge and use of medicinal plant species by traditional healers was investigated in Sekoru District, Jimma Zone, Southwestern Ethiopia from December 2005 to November 2006. Traditional healers of the st...

    Authors: Haile Yineger and Delenasaw Yewhalaw
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2007 3:24
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  22. A comparative food ethnobotanical study was carried out in twenty-one local communities in Italy, fourteen of which were located in Northern Italy, one in Central Italy, one in Sardinia, and four in Southern I...

    Authors: Maria Pia Ghirardini, Marco Carli, Nicola del Vecchio, Ariele Rovati, Ottavia Cova, Francesco Valigi, Gaia Agnetti, Martina Macconi, Daniela Adamo, Mario Traina, Francesco Laudini, Ilaria Marcheselli, Nicolò Caruso, Tiziano Gedda, Fabio Donati, Alessandro Marzadro…
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2007 3:22
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  24. In the present work the authors report the result of their food ethnobotanical researches, which have been carried out in Sicily during the last thirty years. Data concerning 188 wild species used in the tradi...

    Authors: Francesca Lentini and Francesca Venza
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2007 3:15
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  26. The Caatinga (dry land vegetation) is one of the most characteristic vegetation types in northeastern Brazil. It occupies a large percentage of the semi-arid region there, and generally supports two major type...

    Authors: Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2006 2:30
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  28. The study of local knowledge about natural resources is becoming increasingly important in defining strategies and actions for conservation or recuperation of residual forests. This study therefore sought to: ...

    Authors: Luiz Rodrigo Saldanha Gazzaneo, Reinaldo Farias Paiva de Lucena and Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque
    Citation: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2005 1:9
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