The Upper Rhine Valley (AVR) is borderland between the Italian regions of Tuscany and Emilia Romagna. The natural and cultural heritage based upon ethnobotanical knowledge in the AVR area has been studied, documented and analysed using semi-structured interviews. The information is presented through an ethnological and floristic catalogue, including both cultivated and wild species known to the local community. Although there is evidence of a great biocultural richness in the old oral tradition, important erosion phenomena threatening the conservation of ethnobotanical knowledge (immaterial culture) and associated plants (material culture) have been highlighted. The reasons behind the phenomena are partly due to the abandonment of agro-pastoral practices, as well as to the significant changes in the management of the territory and in the life forms.
Book Title
Etnobotánica en el Alto Valle del Reno (Toscana y Emilia-Romaña, Italia)
Book Subtitle
Etnobotanica nell’Alta Valle del Reno (Toscana ed Emilia-Romagna, Italia)
Authors
Maria Teresa Egea Molines
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
740
Publication Year
2018
Copyright Information
© 2018 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-787-0
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-786-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-787-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-082-3
Series Title
Premio Tesi di Dottorato
Series ISSN
2612-8039
Series E-ISSN
2612-8020