A review of the ethnomicology of indigenous people in Brazil and its relevance to ethnomycologycal investigation in Latin America
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https://doi.org/10.33885/sf.2001.3.903Keywords:
Ethnomycology, Brazil, mycophilia, non-mycophilia, indigenous peopleAbstract
The goal of this work was to carry out a revisión of the ethnomycological studies in Brazil, dating from the 17th century
until the present. We systematized information about species, indigenous glosses, uses and bibliographic references
according to contemporary ethnobiological criteria (utilitarian or cognitive). In broad lines, there are two distinct periods,
which correspond to the proper development of the discipline: the Utilitarian Period with scarce, descriptive and anécdota!
works and the Cognitive Period with more systematically descriptive studies. The revisión demónstrales that most
indigenous groups studied in Brazil are non-mycophilic, corroborating that non-mycophilia may be a generalized pattern in
tropical lowlands of Latin America. Brazilian Indian groups seem to recognized fungi as a distinct group of organisms,
which suggests that fungi are named as higher rank taxon in these traditional societies
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