The cultivation of the castor bean and the amba’y in Guarani communities of the Argentine Northeast, ethnobotanical approach of their history and cosmology

This work studied the historical evidence of the cultivation of “amba’y”, Cecropia pachystachya (Urticaceae) in domestic areas of Guarani communities and its replacement by the castor bean or “ricino”, Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), whose cultivation is a current practice. Information obtained on...

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Main Authors:	Héctor Alejandro Keller, Analía Pirondo, Pablo Stampella
Format:	Article
Language:	Spanish
Published:	Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste 2018-06-01
Series:	Bonplandia
Subjects:	cecropia etimología etnobotánica ricinus
Online Access:	https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/bon/article/view/2983

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title	The cultivation of the castor bean and the amba’y in Guarani communities of the Argentine Northeast, ethnobotanical approach of their history and cosmology
title_short	The cultivation of the castor bean and the amba’y in Guarani communities of the Argentine Northeast, ethnobotanical approach of their history and cosmology
title_full	The cultivation of the castor bean and the amba’y in Guarani communities of the Argentine Northeast, ethnobotanical approach of their history and cosmology
title_fullStr	The cultivation of the castor bean and the amba’y in Guarani communities of the Argentine Northeast, ethnobotanical approach of their history and cosmology
title_full_unstemmed	The cultivation of the castor bean and the amba’y in Guarani communities of the Argentine Northeast, ethnobotanical approach of their history and cosmology
title_sort	cultivation of the castor bean and the amba’y in guarani communities of the argentine northeast, ethnobotanical approach of their history and cosmology
publisher	Instituto de Botánica del Nordeste
series	Bonplandia
issn	0524-0476 1853-8460
publishDate	2018-06-01
description	This work studied the historical evidence of the cultivation of “amba’y”, Cecropia pachystachya (Urticaceae) in domestic areas of Guarani communities and its replacement by the castor bean or “ricino”, Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae), whose cultivation is a current practice. Information obtained on uses of castor bean and on the mythical origin of the amba’y is useful to achieve an etymological approximation to the name “amba’y” alternative to those previously proposed by León Cadogan
topic	cecropia etimología etnobotánica ricinus
url	https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/bon/article/view/2983
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The cultivation of the castor bean and the amba’y in Guarani communities of the Argentine Northeast, ethnobotanical approach of their history and cosmology

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