caa a22 4500 445806982 CHVBK 20180317145159.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-011-9387-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-011-9387-x Local Medicinal Plant Knowledge in South Africa Preserved by Apartheid [Elektronische Daten] [Lisa Aston Philander, Nokwanda Makunga, Simon Platten] Apartheid isolated South Africa economically and politically from the global arena and its citizens culturally from one another. Post-apartheid policymakers have sought to address prior inequalities in education, health care and employment, concerns central to biodiversity conservation initiatives. This article examines the role of school gardening programs on the distribution and transmission of local phytomedicinal knowledge. Urban Cape Town, an area of high biocultural diversity, presents a unique environment in which to observe cultural distinctions in medicinal plant utilization, the impact of school gardening, and the recent cultural amalgamation in local knowledge transmission. Local healers chose 16 common medicinal plants, which were used to examine fifth and seventh graders' knowledge of local remedies. Results indicate that knowledge of different plants was concentrated in specific ethnic groups and amongst recent migrants. It is proposed that ethnic separation during the apartheid era insulated cultures on socioeconomic and geo-environmental strata, thereby preserving local knowledge. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 South African apartheid nationallicence School and home gardens nationallicence Medicinal plants nationallicence Urban biocultural diversity nationallicence Local knowledge transmission nationallicence Political ecology nationallicence Aston Philander Lisa University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, USA aut Makunga Nokwanda Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa aut Platten Simon University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, USA aut Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/2(2011-04-01), 203-216 0300-7839 39:2<203 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9387-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9387-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Aston Philander Lisa University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Makunga Nokwanda Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Platten Simon University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/2(2011-04-01), 203-216 0300-7839 39:2<203 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer