Ash salts and bodily affects: Witoto environmental knowledge as sexual education

This letter addresses the indigenous discourse on a set of plant species used by the Witoto Indians of Northwest Amazonia to extract ash or vegetable salt, obtained from the combustion of the tissues of vegetable species, filtering of the ashes, and desiccation of the resulting brine. It aims to dem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Juan Alvaro Echeverri, Oscar Enokakuiodo Román-Jitdutjaaño
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015034