Stories told by plants on graveyards in Northern Angola.

BACKGROUND:Worldwide, different traditions of symbolic statements in graveyards can be found. However, studies on sub-Saharan Africa are rare. For BaKongo cemeteries, it is only known that they traditionally do not exhibit plants for decoration purposes. Our study wanted to inspect the influence of...

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Main Authors: Thea Lautenschläger, José Lau Mandombe, Monizi Mawunu, Christoph Neinhuis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236941