title: Ethnobotany in Intermedical Spaces: The Case of the Fulni-ô Indians (Northeastern Brazil).
abstract: We analyzed the Fulni-ô medical system and introduced its intermedical character based on secondary data published in the literature. Then we focused on the medicinal plants known to the ethnic group, describing the most important species, their therapeutic uses and the body systems attributed to them. We based this analysis on the field experience of the authors in the project Studies for the Environmental and Cultural Sustainability of the Fulni-ô Medical System: Office of Medicinal Plant Care. This traditional botanical knowledge was used to corroborate the hybrid nature of local practices for access to health. We show that intermedicality is a result not only of the meeting of the Fulni-ô medical system with Biomedicine but also of its meeting with other traditional systems. Finally, we discuss how traditional botanical knowledge may be directly related to the ethnogenesis process led by the Fulni-ô Indians in northeastern Brazil.
authors.affiliation: Botany Post-Graduation Program, Biology Department, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Dom Manoel de Medeiros street, s/n, Dois Irmãos, 52171-900 Recife, PE, Brazil.
authors.forename: Gustavo Taboada
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Soldati
authors.forename: Ulysses
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Paulino de Albuquerque