Scientific publications
- Giovannini P., Reyes-Garcia, V., Waldstein, A., Heinrich, M.Do pharmaceuticals displace local knowledge and use of medicinal plants? Estimates from a cross-sectional study in a rural indigenous community, Mexico. Social Science & Medicine, 2011. 72(6):928-936
- Giovannini P. and M. Heinrich. Xki yoma' (Our medicine) and xki tienda (patent medicine). interface between traditional and modern medicine among the Mazatecs of Oaxaca, Mexico. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 2009 Jan 30;121(3):383-99.
- Giovannini, P. 2007. Management, Biology and Cultural importance of a wild food species in the Tehuacan Cuicatlan Valley, Mexico: the case of Enterolobium cyclocarpum. in Fusun, E. editor. Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Ethnobotany (ICEB 2005) Istanbul, Turkey.
- Godoy, R., Tanner, S., Reyes-Garcia, V., Leonard,W.R., McDade, T.W., Vento, M., Broesch, J., Fitzpatrick, I., Giovannini, P., Huanca, T., Jha, N. and Bolivian TAPS study team. The effect of rainfall during gestation and early childhood on adult height in a foraging and horticultural society of the Bolivian Amazon. American Journal of Human Biology, 2008. 20(1):23-34.
- Godoy, R., Reyes-Garcia, V., Broesch, J., Fitzpatrick, I.,Giovannini, P., Rodriguez, M., Huanca, T., Leonard, W., McDade, T., Tanner, S. 2009. Long-term (secular) change of ethnobotanical knowledge of useful plants separating Cohort and Age Effects. Journal of Anthropological Research 65(1):51-68
- Reyes-Garcia, V., Godoy, R., Huanca, T., William, R.L., McDade, T.W., Tanner, S., Vadez, V., Broesch, J., Fitzpatrick, I., Gerkey, D., Giovannini, P. The pay-offs to sociability: Solitary and social leisure and happiness. TAPS Working paper 25, 2006 Download from the website of the Tsimane Amerindian Panel Study
Publications in media
Oral Presentations
- 2010 International Congress of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology (Albacete, Spain): Mazatec ethnopharmacy 70 years after R.E. Schultes.
- 2009 Vth International Congress of Ethnobotany (Bariloche, Argentina): Knowledge of medicinal plants and pharmaceuticals. Same or different health care system? A case study from Mexico.
- 2009 The School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London: The interaction between local knowledge of medicinal plants and knowledge of pharmaceuticals in an indigenous rural community, Mexico.
- 2008 International congress of Ethnopharmacology (San Paolo, Brasil) : Xki yoma' and xki tienda - Interface between traditional and modern medicine among the Mazatecs of Oaxaca, Mexico. Download the powerpoint presentation
- 2008 Kew Gardens (Kew-Kings-Square meeting) Mazatec Ethnopharmacy: local knowledge on medicinal plants and pharmaceuticals.