... wild plant pharmacopeia and medical ethnobotany of the Wichí people of the South American Gran Chaco region, ... document the wild medicinal plants used by the Wichís and the associated ethnobotanical knowledge, b) discuss the ... current sanitary, epidemiological and ethnomedical context of the Wichís, and c) analyse the similarities between the medicinal plants and uses of the Wichís and those reported for the Criollos of the study area, for the We'enhayek (Wichís of Bolivia) and for other indigenous peoples of ...
Tópico(s): African Botany and Ecology Studies
2018 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Ethnopharmacology
Micaela Camino, Sara Cortez, Mariana Altrichter, Silvia D. Matteucci,
Indigenous Wichís and mestizos Criollos inhabit a rural, biodiversity rich, area of the Argentinean Dry Chaco.Traditionally, Wichís were nomads and their relations with wildlife were shaped by animistic and shamanic beliefs.Today, Wichís live in stable communities and practice subsistence hunting, ... conserve wildlife species in this region, focused on Wichís´and Criollos´perceptions of and relations with wildlife. ... food resource, medicine and predictors of future events.Wichís and Criollos also relate with wildlife in a ...
Tópico(s): Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
2018 - | Ethnobiology and Conservation
Federica Sevini, Daniele Yang Yao, Laura Lomartire, Annalaura Barbieri, D. Vianello, Gianmarco Ferri, Edgardo Moretti, María Cristina Dasso, Paolo Garagnani, Davide Pettener, Claudio Franceschi, Donata Luiselli, Zelda Alice Franceschi,
... in Gran Chaco, Argentina, we studied two populations (Wichí and Criollos) recruited following an innovative bio-cultural ... gap usually relying on a singular discipline. Although Wichí and Criollos share the same area, these sympatric ... and in a lower genetic variability in the Wichí population. Surprisingly, the Amerindian and the European components emerged with comparable amounts (20%) among Criollos and Wichí respectively. The detailed analysis of mitochondrial DNA showed ... an Amazonian component emerged in Criollos and in Wichí respectively. Our approach allowed us to highlight that ...
Tópico(s): Trypanosoma species research and implications
2013 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Andrea Taverna, Douglas L. Medin, Sandra R. Waxman, Olga Peralta,
... specific names) in adults and children from the Wichí community, an indigenous group of Amerindians living in ... north Argentina. We provide an overview of the Wichí community, describing in brief their interaction with objects ... fundamental folkbiological concepts animate and living thing in Wichí adults and children. These results converge well with evidence from other communities. Wichí children and adults appreciate these fundamental concepts; both are strongly aligned with the Wichí community-wide belief systems. This work underscores the ...
Tópico(s): Language and cultural evolution
2012 - Brill | Journal of Cognition and Culture
Anahí N. Herrera Cano, María Eugenia Suárez,
... the ancestral alcoholic beverage par excellence of the Wichís and other indigenous peoples of South American Gran ... analyse the process from a holistic approach, integrating Wichí concepts and biological explanations. Any morphological type of ... bitter-sour) or nusuy (sour-salty). From the Wichí perspective, fermentation is both a maturation and a ... microbiological concepts. Altogether, results expand the knowledge on Wichí ethnobiology and are also useful to other disciplines ...
Tópico(s): Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
2020 - BioMed Central | Journal of Ethnic Foods
María Celeste Baiocchi, Sandra R. Waxman, Élida María Pérez, Aurelia Pérez, Andrea Taverna,
... by examining children and adults from an indigenous Wichi community in the Chaco forest of Argentina. We ask which organizing principles the Wichi invoke when organizing animals native to their forest (tshotoy). The results reveal that Wichi adults and children represent tshotoy primarily on the ... social-ecological framework that is well aligned with Wichi native epistemology. This new evidence, which underscores the ...
Tópico(s): Culinary Culture and Tourism
2019 - Elsevier BV | Cognitive Development
Andrea Taverna, Douglas L. Medin, Sandra R. Waxman,
... experience. Here we provide new evidence from the Wichi—an understudied indigenous community who live in the ... speak their heritage language. A total of 44 Wichi (6- to 8-year-olds, 9- to 12- ... These results (a) clarify the content of the Wichi's categories and the words they use to ... discussed. In particular, we discuss (a) how the Wichi's construal of the natural world may be ...
Tópico(s): Indigenous Cultures and Socio-Education
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Early Education and Development
... Verónica Nercesian, Nicolás Arellano Vowel shifts in Middle Wichi (Mataguayan family, South America), Journal of Historical Linguistics ... aproximación a la variación vocálica inter-dialectal en wichí, LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas 15, no.22 (Aug ... Procesos fonológicos en el dominio de la palabra wichí (mataguaya), LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas 14, no.11 ( ... levels in synthetic languages. An empirical study on Wichi (Mataguayan, Gran Chaco), Morphology 24, no.33 (Aug ... Cayré Baito Phonological, grammatical, and written words in Wichi, Morphology 24, no.33 (Sep 2014): 199–221. ...
Tópico(s): Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies
1994 - University of Chicago Press | International Journal of American Linguistics
Laura Ángela Glesmann, Pablo Martina, Cecilia Inés Catanesi,
... main urban centers, the cultural patterns of the Wichí cause these communities to live in certain degree ... the variation of X chromosome present in the Wichi population living around Misión Nueva Pompeya, in Chaco ... repeats, X-STRs) in Chaco Amerindians. We genotyped Wichí for 10 noncoding X-STRs and compared them ... disequilibrium values for the X chromosome in the Wichí population. The data showed the Wichí to be more distant from nonnative people than ... be enhanced by the social behavior of the Wichí, since they live apart from other native and ...
Tópico(s): Race, Genetics, and Society
2013 - Wayne State University Press | Human Biology
María Eugenia Suárez, Rodrigo Montani,
... species are used, perceived and conceived by the Wichí people of the Semiarid Chaco, phytonomy, morphology, organoleptic ... features of the plants are described from a Wichí perspective, placing emphasis on an analysis of linguistic ... that they have features of animacy. For the Wichís, the Bromeliaceae are closely related and may comprise ...
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
2010 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Ethnobiology
Natalia Juiz, Elkyn Estupiñán, Daniel Hernández, Alejandra Garcilazo, Raúl Chadi, Gisela Morales Sanfurgo, Alejandro G. Schijman, Silvia A. Longhi, Clara Isabel González,
... seropositive adults from Argentinean Gran Chaco endemic region (Wichi and Creole) and patients from Buenos Aires health ... equilibrium in the unaffected non-DC group from Wichi patients, we analyzed them as a separate population. ... in CCR5 gene showed significant differences within non-Wichi population (Creole + patients from Buenos Aires centres), being ... the HHE haplotype was associated with protection in Wichi population. Our findings support the hypothesis that CCR2- ...
Tópico(s): Helminth infection and control
2019 - Public Library of Science | PLoS neglected tropical diseases
Ana Dell’Arciprete, José Braunstein, Cecilia Touris, Graciela Dinardi, Ignacio Llovet, Sergio Sosa‐Estáni,
... by beliefs, habits, and practices of Pilaga and Wichi indigenous communities in their interaction with the local ... with members of four indigenous communities (Pilaga and Wichi) located in central Formosa. These interviews were used ... are more inclined to accept Western medicine, the Wichi often favour the indigenous approach to health care ...
Tópico(s): Public Health and Social Inequalities
2014 - BioMed Central | International Journal for Equity in Health
Edgardo Moretti, Irma Castro, Claudio Franceschi, Beatriz Basso,
... places inhabited by native populations such as the Wichi and Toba communities, among others. Many Creole populations ... Chagas infection and its electrocardiographic profile in the Wichi and Creole populations of Misión Nueva Pompeya, in ...
Tópico(s): Trypanosoma species research and implications
2010 - Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde | Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Claudia Valeggia, Kevin M. Burke, Eduardo Fernández‐Duque,
... of the Argentine Gran Chaco: the Toba and Wichí of the province of Formosa. Originally hunter–gatherers, ... the adult Toba and 34% of the adult Wichí were overweight and 10% of adults in both ...
Tópico(s): Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
2009 - Elsevier BV | Economics & Human Biology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Shaiane Goulart Crossetti, Darío Alfredo Demarchi, Paulo Eduardo Raimann, Francisco M. Salzano, Mara H. Hutz, Sídia M. Callegari-Jacques,
... for the D A distances indicated that (1) Wichí from the Chaco Province are genetically distinct from ... preserve a fair amount of genetic similarity with Wichí from Formosa; (2) the Toba populations studied are ... the same linguistic group (Guaykurú) and to the Wichí from Formosa who speak a Mataco language. This ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2008 - Wiley | American Journal of Human Biology
... fonológicos que ocurren dentro de la palabra en wichí (mataguaya). La derivación, la flexión y la composición ... fonológicos más frecuentes dentro de la palabra en wichí pueden agruparse según esos condicionamientos. En relación con ( ...
Tópico(s): Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
2014 - UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS | LIAMES Línguas Indígenas Americanas
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
... articles dealing with the phonology and dialectology of Wichí (referred to in the past as Mataco) and ... change in both languages. The four articles on Wichí and the single article on Mapuzungun found in ...
Tópico(s): Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
2011 - UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS | LIAMES Línguas Indígenas Americanas
... la década de 1980, varios grupos de aborígenes wichí de Argentina adoptaron una religión de raíz pentecostal, ... marco del surgimiento de la nueva religión, los wichí ensayaron un proceso de transformación identitaria que se ...
Tópico(s): Indigenous Cultures and History
2002 - UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE CAMPINAS | Ciencias Sociales y Religión
... uhu» (Mi madre me enseñó) destinado a niños wichi de nivel inicial y primario. En un inicio, ... para recuperar los saberes tradicionales de las madres wichi con el fin de hacerlos dialogar con los ...
Tópico(s): Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America
2019 - FahrenHouse | Foro de Educación
... analyzes the tension generated by the admission of Wichí youths to higher education in the province of ... based on ethnographic fieldwork that examined how young Wichí undergraduate students made sense of their schooling experiences.
Tópico(s): Indigenous Studies in Latin America
2017 - Wiley | Anthropology & Education Quarterly
Virgínia Ramallo, María Rita Santos, Marina Muzzio, Josefina María Brenda Motti, Susana Alicia Salceda, Graciela Bailliet,
... se realizaron dos viajes de campaña a comunidades Wichí cercanas a las localidades de Ingeniero Juárez y ... registrada y las posibles vinculaciones entre las comunidades Wichís se analizaron por redes “median joining”, encontrando una ... la distribución de las parcialidades del “complejo étnico Wichí” propuesto por Braunstein.
Tópico(s): Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
2009 - Museo de Antropologia | Revista del Museo de Antropología
Andrea Taverna, Douglas L. Medin, Sandra R. Waxman,
... approach, we review new evidence about how the Wichi, an indigenous population from the Chaco region in ... young children and adults, is well aligned with Wichi epistemology. We hope that highlighting the theoretical promise ...
Tópico(s): Geography and Education Methods
2020 - Taylor & Francis | Journal for the Study of Education and Development Infancia y Aprendizaje
... form. Therefore, based on the case of the Wichí of the Argentinian Chaco, this paper contributes to ...
Tópico(s): Geographies of human-animal interactions
2020 - Wiley | Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
Andrea Sala, Mariela Caputo, Daniel Corach,
... focused our attention on four aboriginal groups, namely, Wichí, Toba, Pilagá and Mocoví, belonging to the Mataco- ... 90.3% to 96.9% of autosomal markers. Wichí exhibited the genetic composition with the largest Native ...
Tópico(s): Indigenous Cultures and History
2019 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Raúl Horacio Lucero, Bettina Brusés, Carolina Cura, Laura Formichelli, Natalia Juiz, Geysson Javier Fernández, Margarita Bisio, Gerardo Deluca, Susana A. Besuschio, Dora Olivares Hernández, Alejandro G. Schijman,
... cruzi infection in Qom, Mocoit, Pit'laxá and Wichi ethnias (N = 604) and Creole communities (N = 257) ... PCR positivity in two different surveys at the Wichi community of Misión Nueva Pompeya (33.3% in ...
Tópico(s): Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
2016 - Elsevier BV | Infection Genetics and Evolution
Sofía Marinaro, H. Ricardo Grau, Leandro Macchi, Patricia V. Zelaya,
... hectares region; and to (2) compare diversity between Wichí indigenous properties and non-indigenous properties, within a ... densities of species specifically targeted for human harvest. Wichí properties were the most original regime in terms ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2014 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Arid Environments
Andrea Taverna, Sandra R. Waxman, Douglas L. Medin, Nora Moscoloni, Olga Peralta,
... children ( n = 129) from three Argentinean communities (rural Wichí-speaking, rural Spanish-speaking, urban Spanish-speaking) were ...
Tópico(s): Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
2014 - Brill | Journal of Cognition and Culture
... current experiences of the western Toba and the Wichí. In particular, I explore how Toba and Wichí views of ID papers include ideological forms of ...
Tópico(s): Anthropological Studies and Insights
2006 - Wiley | American Ethnologist
Cristina Beatriz Dejean, Brigitte Crouau‐Roy, Alicia Susana Goicoechea, Sergio Alejandro Avena, Francisco R. Carnese,
... Amerindian populations of the Argentine Gran Chaco: Toba, Wichi and Chorote. Genomic DNA was prepared from peripheral ... of populations showed a clear differentiation between the Wichi and the other two groups. However, the proportion ...
Tópico(s): CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
2004 - Brazilian Society of Genetics | Genetics and Molecular Biology
N. J. Taranto, Silvana P. Cajal, Mauricio C. De Marzi, Marisa M. Fernández, Fernanda M. Frank, AnaM. Bru, M.C. Minvielle, Juan Ángel Basualdo Farjat, Emilio L. Malchiodi,
... of the clinical and parasitological status of a Wichi Aboriginal community living in the suburbs of Tartagal, ...
Tópico(s): Parasites and Host Interactions
2003 - Oxford University Press | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene