Abstract
BackgroundAn ethnomycological study was conducted to describe the fungus concept and the traditional fungus classification system for the Nahuas of San Isidro Buensuceso, in central Mexico. The study which provides information on the co-existence of various forms of classification, based on both cultural and biological characteristics.MethodsThe research included conducting community interviews and forest forays in the company of mushroom pickers. The triad technique, pile sorting, and fresh mushroom sampling methods were used. Traditional names were analyzed to describe the Nahua classification system for fungi.Results and conclusionThe triad technique with non-utilitarian stimuli allowed the fungi to be identified as an independent group of plants and animals. The Nahua people of San Isidro classify fungi primarily based on their use, where they grow, and by humoral characteristics. The analysis of the names revealed a classification based on the criteria proposed by Brent Berlin. This study identified the detailed knowledge of fungi in this Nahua community. The criteria used for the recognition of the species are very reliable, since they use organoleptic, ecological, phenological, and morphological characteristics.
Highlights
Ethnomycology is an area of Ethnobiology that studies traditional knowledge, manifestations, and cultural and/ or environmental implications that derive from the relationship between fungi and man through time and space [1] as well as the mechanisms by which they are generated, transmitted, and evolved in a non-formal wayReyes-López et al Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2020) 16:53 which they are classified by the people of these groups
Some people pointed out that fungi are a product of the earth, while others said that they are produced by God and some denoted that they are produced by seeds and roots or they are born from ocō-xāl
With the methods used in this research, the concept of fungi as a distinctly different group from plants, animals, and food changed in relation to the stimuli that were used in the pilot tests
Summary
Ethnomycology is an area of Ethnobiology that studies traditional knowledge, manifestations, and cultural and/ or environmental implications that derive from the relationship between fungi and man through time and space [1] as well as the mechanisms by which they are generated, transmitted, and evolved in a non-formal wayReyes-López et al Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2020) 16:53 which they are classified by the people of these groups. Ethnomycology is an area of Ethnobiology that studies traditional knowledge, manifestations, and cultural and/ or environmental implications that derive from the relationship between fungi and man through time and space [1] as well as the mechanisms by which they are generated, transmitted, and evolved in a non-formal way. The objective of this work is to describe the way mushrooms are conceived, the way they are classified, and the criteria used for this, by the study of ethnomycology in an original Nahuatl community in Central Mexico. An ethnomycological study was conducted to describe the fungus concept and the traditional fungus classification system for the Nahuas of San Isidro Buensuceso, in central Mexico. The study which provides information on the co-existence of various forms of classification, based on both cultural and biological characteristics
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