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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Main Author: Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton
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Language:English
Published: Laboratoire Éco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie 2020-06-01
Series:Revue d'ethnoécologie
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/5989
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description 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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Les enquêtes ethnobotaniques de Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999)
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botany
ethnology
history of sciences
pharmacology
herbarium
title Les enquêtes ethnobotaniques de Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999)
title_full Les enquêtes ethnobotaniques de Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999)
title_fullStr Les enquêtes ethnobotaniques de Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999)
title_full_unstemmed Les enquêtes ethnobotaniques de Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999)
title_short Les enquêtes ethnobotaniques de Germaine Dieterlen (1903-1999)
title_sort les enquetes ethnobotaniques de germaine dieterlen 1903 1999
topic Africa
botany
ethnology
history of sciences
pharmacology
herbarium
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