ECOHE - Laboratory of Ethnobotany and Human Ecology, Department of Ecology, Center of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, 88010-970, Brazil.
São Roque Quilombola Association, Praia Grande, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2024 Sep 18;20(1):89. doi: 10.1186/s13002-024-00729-1.
Based on participatory research tools and analysis with a gender focus, we aim to identify the knowledge associated with native plants of the Atlantic Forest in one Quilombola community whose territory is juxtaposed with a protected area, in South Brazil.
Through the perception of the residents of the Quilombola community of São Roque, we classified the availability, harvesting intensity, abundance, and importance of fourteen plants native to the Atlantic Forest found in their territory. These fourteen plants were selected after initial interviews with a free listing of plants done with all adults (44 people), followed by plant collection and identification. A participatory workshop was built with the community to collect data through three activities: four-cell tool, environment matrix, and importance matrix. To identify the gender nuances in the knowledge within this community, all activities were separated into two groups based on the gender of the 22 participants (9 women and 13 men) and the researchers.
The species Pau-pra-tudo (Picrasma crenata), Quina (Coutarea hexandra), and Cipó-milome (Aristolochia triangularis) were similarly classified as important by both groups, which indicates the cultural and environmental relevance associated with them regardless of gender. The perceptions of other species were expressed differently between the groups, showing the variance of the ecological knowledge and the relationship between the sociocultural contexts of gender and the knowledge manifested. The final part of the workshop was a lecture given by two community experts about herbal medicines based on forest species found in the territory.
Based on the multiple forms of results recorded in the workshop, we discuss the demand for inclusion of the traditional community in land management plans of environmental agencies, highlighting how individual characteristics, such as gender, can fill gaps in data about local biodiversity.
基于参与式研究工具和以性别为重点的分析，我们旨在确定与毗邻保护区的一个夸雷罗博社区的大西洋森林本地植物相关的知识。
通过对南里奥格兰德州圣罗克夸雷罗博社区居民的感知，我们对其领土内发现的 14 种大西洋森林本地植物的可用性、采集强度、丰富度和重要性进行了分类。在对所有成年人（44 人）进行初步访谈，进行植物自由列表后，选择了这 14 种植物，随后进行了植物采集和鉴定。与社区一起构建了一个参与式研讨会，通过三项活动收集数据：四细胞工具、环境矩阵和重要性矩阵。为了识别社区内知识中的性别细微差别，所有活动均根据 22 名参与者（9 名女性和 13 名男性）和研究人员的性别分为两组。
两组都将 Pau-pra-tudo（Picrasma crenata）、Quina（Coutarea hexandra）和 Cipó-milome（Aristolochia triangularis）这三种物种归类为重要物种，这表明它们与文化和环境具有相关性，而与性别无关。两组对其他物种的看法有所不同，表明生态知识的差异以及性别与表现出的知识之间的社会文化背景之间的关系。研讨会的最后一部分是由两位社区专家就基于该领土内发现的森林物种的草药进行的讲座。
基于研讨会中记录的多种形式的结果，我们讨论了将传统社区纳入环境机构土地管理计划的需求，强调了性别等个人特征如何填补有关当地生物多样性数据的空白。
