title: [Plants and traditional medicine in southeast Madagascar].
abstract: This paper makes a first inventory of plants used by the medicine-men of the South-East of Madagascar (Tanala and Antemoro regions). The heirs - directly or indirectly - to an esoteric "moslem" knowledge which has been transmitted since the XVth century by the aristocratic islamized groups, the medicine-men are also the possessors of a knowledge which has been acquired by the autochthonous groups, that are said "masters of the earth" (commoners). Some divergences in the respective practices of the Tanala and Antemoro medicine-men seem to be connected with differences in the social structure and in the links between society and the environment.
authors.affiliation: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Beaujard
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008270:Madagascar; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D010946:Plants, Medicinal
vernacular_title: Plantes et médecine traditionnelle dans le Sud-Est de Madagascar.