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Tesis de Doctorado.

Contenido: Ese Eja Ethnobotany: examining plants and change in an Amazonian society -- introdution -- Scope of thesis -- Ethnobotany and science -- The new amazonian ethnobotany: insights from ecology antropology and ethnohistory -- Science and the Ese Eja -- Organization of the thesis -- Ethnographic and ethnobotanical sources on the Ese Eja -- Ese Eja and its transcription -- Fieldwork and the Ese Eja -- Introduction -- Fieldwork history -- Languaje and fieldwork -- Data Collection and field techniques -- Ethics and fieldwork -- The Ese Eja natural enviroment -- Introduction -- The Madre de Dios-Beni drainage system -- wildlife resourses -- The Ese Eja Social environment -- Introdution -- Distribution, linguistic affiliation and origins of the Ese Eja -- History of the Ese Eja -- Languaje -- Social organization -- Ese Eja Communities today -- Ese Eja Ecology, economy and subsistence -- Introdution -- Hunting -- Fishing -- Gathering wild foods -- Agriculture -- Domestic animals -- Commercial resourse extraction -- Material Culture -- Seasonality of subsistense activites -- Gender and Subsitense -- Ese Eja Subsistense and and culture change -- Plants ans Symbols Ese Eja Medicine, Shamanism and Cosmology -- Ese Eja Cosmology and Ethnomedicina -- Introduccion -- Cosmology -- Body and Soul -- Conception, birth and grownth -- Death: Ekwikira, Eshawa , Kweyhana and Emanokwana -- the Edosikiana and the Eyamikekwa -- When the Eshawa raid the Ese Eja -- Foot prohibition Kia'aja, Kia'ne -- Sex and Food Bañekwe and Bañejima -- "Daño de gente" and sorcery -- Ese Eja Shamanism -- Intruduction -- Shamanims in Antropology and ethnobotany -- Eyamikekwa Shamanism -- Ayahuasca Shamanism -- Ese Eja Shamanism and human-environment relations -- Ese Eja Medical Resourses -- The Nature and Scope of Medical Resourse -- Intoduction -- The Scope of medical recourse utilization -- Characteris of madicinals -- Ese Eja Notions of medicinals -- The Bitter and the sweet -- The ambivalence of medicals, The use and selection of medicals -- Treatments and Disease Categories -- Medical resources and shamanism -- Pramacology and medical Resources -- The sociocultural identity of medicals -- The Distribution of Knowledge -- Introduction -- Ethnobotany and the Evaluation -- Data Collection and Analysis -- Salience of activity contexts -- Saliene of the medical resourses -- Interpreting Salience of medicinals -- Number of the uses and importance of medicinals Resourses -- Elicitacion techniques, saliente quantification and the evaluation of the cultural significance -- Cultural variation and medical resources -- Introduction -- Intra-cultural variation and ethnobotany -- Intra-cultural variation and the Ese Eja -- Specialist Knowlegde and the adquisition of the medical Knowlegde -- Patterning of the Ese Eja intracultural variation -- Diferences in Gender -- Medical resources in the chemical ecology of the culture change -- Introduction -- Health and culture change -- Medical Resources and the indigenous adaptation to sedentism -- Conclution -- Plants and Ese Eja society -- Culture change and ethnobotanical processes: theoretical implications -- Appendix: Ese Eja medical resources -- bibliograpy