Etkin N L
Department of Anthropology and Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii, Honolulu 96822, USA.
J Ethnopharmacol. 1998 Dec;63(3):233-45. doi: 10.1016/s0378-8741(98)00102-0.
The accelerating rate at which the world's botanical resources are being depleted today has inspired redoubled efforts on the part of global conservation programs. For the most part, this reflects the actions of outsiders who are culturally and politically detached from the threatened environments, and who identify species for conservation through western economic models. In view of this, ethnopharmacologists--and primarily those representing the social sciences--have drawn attention to the cogency of indigenous knowledge of biotic diversity and its conservation. This paper reviews how local paradigms of plant management promote conservation, and problematizes the issue specifically to the use of plants by Hausa peoples in northern Nigeria. The pharmacologic implications of indigenous patterns of plant use and conservation derive from the manifold and overlapping contexts in which plants, especially wild species, are used by local communities. These applications identify the importance of particular species and should be employed in assigning priority for the conservation of plants.
当今世界植物资源加速枯竭的状况，促使全球保护计划加倍努力。在很大程度上，这反映了那些在文化和政治上与受威胁环境脱节的外部人士的行动，他们通过西方经济模式来确定需要保护的物种。有鉴于此，民族植物学家——主要是那些代表社会科学领域的学者——已提请人们注意本土生物多样性知识及其保护的说服力。本文回顾了当地植物管理模式如何促进保护，并特别针对尼日利亚北部豪萨族对植物的利用问题进行了探讨。本土植物利用和保护模式的药理学意义源自当地社区使用植物（尤其是野生植物）的多种重叠背景。这些应用确定了特定物种的重要性，应将其用于确定植物保护的优先顺序。
