Totonac Ethnobotanical Knowledge: Documenting Traditional Ecological Knowledge Across Communities
The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual collections with transcription and translations of endangered languages and practices. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR).
| This project documents threatened traditional ecological knowledge in five Totonac communities in northern Puebla State, Mexico. The research teams are headed by two experienced linguistic fieldworkers with long-term commitments to the communities. They will build a database of plant nomenclature, classification and use, backed up by voucher specimens and digital photographs. A team of native experts will discuss each plant in digital recordings; all texts will be transcribed and translated. Results will be integrated with Amith's NSF/NEH and ELDP-supported work in five Nahuat communities. Collaboration with expert taxonomists ensures accurate identification to species of all documented plants. |
Project Details
Location: Puebla, Mexico, Central America, Americas
Organiser(s):
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
Project partner(s): University of Alberta
Funder(s):
Arcadia
Funding received: 130,978.00 GBP
Commencement Date: 07/2016
Project Status: Completed
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