Sympathetic science: analogism in Brazilian ethnobiological repertoires among quilombolas of the Atlantic forest and Amazonian ribeirinhos

Abstract Background Drawing on Phillipe Descola’s comparative analysis of ontological regimes across cultures, this article identifies analogism guiding ethnobiological repertories among two distinctive traditional tropical forest communities in Brazil. Methods We carried out participant observation...

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Main Authors: Helbert Medeiros Prado, Rui Sérgio Sereni Murrieta, Glenn Harvey Shepard, Tamires de Lima Souza, Marcelo Nivert Schlindwein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-01-01
Series:Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-021-00499-0