Medical Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicine, and Ethnopharmacology ofthe Tzeltal and Tzotzil Populations of Chiapas, Mexico

该项目继续现有的研究支持， 墨西哥大学的几位文化人类学家 加州伯克利分校 该项目研究医学和 玛雅人的药理学民族植物学知识 印第安人生活在墨西哥恰帕斯州。 该项目将 准备一本植物百科全书， 药理学特性和当地习惯用法，以及 墨西哥和美国的植物标本馆收藏。 这个项目很重要，因为传统知识 印第安人是我们人类生物多样性的宝贵组成部分 资源 通过分析当地社区的民族植物学 和民族药理学知识， 用生物学方法测定了 植物，这个项目将增加我们对自然的理解， 传统的民族植物学知识。

This project continues the existing support for research in Mexico of several cultural anthropologists from the University of California-Berkeley. The project studies the medical and pharmacological ethnobotanical knowledge of a group of Mayan Indians living in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The project will prepare an encyclopedia of plants with their medicinal and pharmacological properties and local customary uses, as well as herbarium collections in Mexico and in the USA. This project is important because the traditional knowledge of Indian peoples is a valuable part of our human biodiversity resources. By analyzing these local communities' ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological knowledge, and matching that knowledge with biological assays of the biochemical properties of the plants, this project will add to our understanding of the nature of traditional ethnobotanical knowledge.