ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2024
Cultural vs. State Borders: Plant Foraging by Hawraman and Mukriyan Kurds in Western Iran.
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- Botanical Ethnoknowledge Index: a new quantitative assessment method for cross-cultural analysis.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2025Article
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- Isolated Mediterranean foraging: wild greens in the matrifocal community of Olympos, Karpathos Island, Greece.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2024Article
- Ethnobotanical study of wild edible plants in the mountainous regions of Semnan Province, Iran.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
Plant foraging is a millennia-old activity still practiced by many people in the Middle East, particularly in the Fertile Crescent region, where several socioeconomic, ecological, and cultural factors shape this practice. This study seeks to understand the drivers of plant foraging in this complex region characterized by highly diverse linguistic, religious, and cultural groups. Our study aims to document the wild plants used by Kurds in Western Iran, identify similarities and differences among Hawraman and Mukriyan Kurdish groups in Iran, and compare our findings with a previous study on the Hawramani in Iraq. Forty-three semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted in Kurdish villages of Western Iran. The results revealed the use of 44 wild food plant taxa, their preparation, and culinary uses. Among the reported taxa, 28 plant taxa were used by Mukriyani, and 33 by Hawramani. The study revealed a significant difference between the Hawraman and Mukriyan regions in Iran, whereas there is a high similarity between Hawramani Kurds in Iran and Iraq. We found that the invisible cultural border carries more weight than political divisions, and this calls for a paradigm shift in how we perceive and map the distribution of ethnobotanical knowledge.
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