Les enquêtes ethnobotaniques de Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999)
Germaine Dieterlen, an ethnologist internationally recognized for her studies on the Dogon religious systems in Mali, has shown throughout her long career a great interest in medicinal plants. She has thus done ethnobotanical surveys among the Dogon and Bambara in Mali but also in the south-east of...
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| Language: | English |
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Laboratoire Éco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Revue d'ethnoécologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/5989 |
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| Summary: | Germaine Dieterlen, an ethnologist internationally recognized for her studies on the Dogon religious systems in Mali, has shown throughout her long career a great interest in medicinal plants. She has thus done ethnobotanical surveys among the Dogon and Bambara in Mali but also in the south-east of the Ivory Coast. This interest led her to contact pharmacological laboratories and even to work for them by collecting medicinal plants for analysis. This little-known aspect of her research is revealed by her archives and herbariums, some of which are kept at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. This study shows the role of local informants involved in the ethnologist's research, particularly in the collection of herbarium samples. These, studied as sources, highlight the history of the human sciences in a new light. |
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| ISSN: | 2267-2419 |