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(i) Cultivo de plantas medicinales tropicales y subtropicales utilizadas en la farmacopea kallawaya, utilizando invernaderos implementados en la Provincia Bautista Saavedra.
Chapter 9 1991
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(i) Investigacin sobre aspectos socioeconmicos y culturales de la medicina kallawaya, practicada por los herbolarios itinerantes de la Provincia Saavedra del Departamento de La Paz.
Chapter 9 1991
john commented on the word kallawaya
"Many of the 113 languages in the region from the Andes Mountains into the Amazon basin are poorly known and are giving way to Spanish or Portuguese, or in a few cases, a more dominant indigenous language. In this area, for example, a group known as the Kallawaya use Spanish or Quechua in daily life, but also have a secret tongue mainly for preserving knowledge of medicinal plants, some previously unknown to science."
-New York Times, September 19, 2007
September 20, 2007
reesetee commented on the word kallawaya
Thanks for the reference, John. Fascinating stuff.
September 20, 2007