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Maya Medicinal Fruit Trees: Q’eqchi’ Homegarden Remedies

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Acknowledgements

Grants were from the Society for Economic Botany, the Society of Ethnobiology, and the Garden Club of America/Missouri Botanical Garden. Many thanks to Lic. J. Morales, Dr. A. Medinaceli, and Alta Verapaz villagers. Washington State University’s Institutional Review Board granted approval for this research. We followed the Code of Ethics of the International Society of Ethnobiology (2006) and the Society for Latin American Ethnobiology (SOLAE 2015). We followed local customs to obtain permission for research, a process Medinaceli (2018) discusses further. We obtained free, prior, and informed consent for each interview.

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Submitted 11 May 2020; Accepted: 22 August 2020.

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Thiel, A.M., Quinlan, M.B. Maya Medicinal Fruit Trees: Q’eqchi’ Homegarden Remedies. Econ Bot 74, 464–470 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12231-020-09506-z

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