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Answers categorization and values for the cultural significance sub Indexes |
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| Sub index |
Answer |
Value |
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| PAI |
A |
0 |
| B |
2.5 |
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| C |
5 |
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| D |
7.5 |
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| E |
10 |
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| FUI |
Never |
0 |
| Not every year |
2.5 |
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| Every year once |
5 |
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| 2–3 times a year |
7.5 |
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| 4 or more a year |
10 |
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| TSAI |
A |
0 |
| B |
3.33 |
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| C |
6.67 |
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| D |
10 |
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| MFFI |
Do not know |
0 |
| Always mixed in a stew with other mushrooms and meat: "amarillito con carne y hongos" |
2.5 |
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| In a stew not as its principal element, mixed with mushrooms, not with meat: "amarillito con hongos" |
5 |
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| As the principal element of a stew: pie, "quesadillas", mushrooms soup |
7.5 |
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| Cooked alone not in stew: roast, fried in butter |
9 |
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| If it is eaten raw or conserved for future consumption |
+1 |
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| KTI |
New use, discovered by itself |
0 |
| An immigrant (near town, other Mexican state, foreigner) |
2.5 |
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| Some town people, not blood parent (husband, friend, job partner) |
5 |
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| Father or mother, and he/she did not teach it to he's sons |
7.5 |
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| Three or more generations involved (grand fathers, fathers, he/she, sons) |
10 |
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| HI |
He/she do not eat it because can be confused with a toxic one |
0 |
| He/she had eat it but with ill consequences |
3.33 |
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| He/she eat it with confidence, and it is healthy |
6.67 |
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| He/she eat it because it is good to health (give strong, mind power, reconstituent, medicine) |
10 |
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| EI |
He/she do not sell or buy it |
0 |
| He/she have sell or buy it occasionally at low prices |
3.33 |
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| He/she have sell or buy it regularly |
6.67 |
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| He/she have sell or buy it at high prices |
10 |
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PAI: Perceived Abundance Index; FUI: Frequency of Use Index; TSAI: Taste Score Appreciation Index; MFFI: Multifunctional Food Index; KTI: Knowledge Transmission Index; HI: Health Index; EI: Economic Index. | ||
Garibay-Orijel et al. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2007 3:4 doi:10.1186/1746-4269-3-4 |
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