List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sierra of Manantlán Biosphere Reserve -- 3 Conservation and Subsistence Strategies -- 4 Market Interaction and Indigenous People -- 5 Governance: Community Decision-Making -- 6 Indigenous People and Development Programs -- 7 Ethnomedical Systems in Mexico -- 8 Medicinal Plant Knowledge in the Reserve -- 9 Final Thoughts -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the Author
Summary
Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve provides an ethnographic account of the Nahua, a group of Indigenous people living in a protected area in west central Mexico. The study moves back and forth between the macro and micro to explore the relationships between three central axes-health, livelihood and cultural knowledge. This anthropological study presents analysis based on household level socioeconomic data and cultural knowledge measured through the use of both structured and semi-structured interview