Beyond the Household: An Overview of Romanian Ethnobiological Research and the Problem of Traditional Food Foraging
Beyond the Household: An Overview of Romanian Ethnobiological Research and the Problem of Traditional Food Foraging

Summary/Abstract: Ethnobotany and ethnozoology have a considerable history as scientific disciplines in Romania. The first systematic studies date back to the mid–19th century, when folklorists and biologists started gathering vernacular plant and animal names from different ethnographic and main historical regions of Romania. Ethnobotanical research regarding the culinary use and the knowledge of wild edible plants has been studied by a limited number of ethnobotanists, but in great detail. In the same tradition, Romanian ethnozoological research has been firstly focused on the linguistic importance of the local names for different taxa, but due to the nature of the subject it also included some extremely detailed information on the culinary use in different regions of Romania, especially regarding fish species.

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