Marco Antonio Vásquez-Dávila

Marco Antonio Vásquez-Dávila
  • Maestro en Ciencias
  • Professor (Full) at Instituto Tecnológico del Valle de Oaxaca

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Instituto Tecnológico del Valle de Oaxaca
Current position
  • Professor (Full)
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January 1991 - August 2021
Instituto Tecnológico del Valle de Oaxaca
Position
  • Professor (Full)
January 2019 - April 2019
Instituto Tecnológico del Valle de Oaxaca
Position
  • Head of Department

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Publications (58)
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RESUMEN Este artículo analiza la relación de los sistemas agrosilviculturales urbanos y periurbanos con la soberanía alimentaria en la región de los Valles Centrales de Oaxaca. La investigación empleó un enfoque mixto de investigación (bibliográfica y de campo) e incidencia que incluyó inventarios de sistemas y especies, entrevistas con actores cla...
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Antecedentes: El tabaco fue usado y apreciado por considerable número de pueblos originarios en México y en el continente americano, empleado ritual y medicinalmente. Preguntas: ¿Cuál es la importancia del tabaco como planta sagrada en la cultura mazateca en la actualidad y qué factores socioculturales explican su saliencia? Especie de estudio: Nic...
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El lector tiene ante sí el tercer volumen de una serie dedicada a la comprensión profunda de los chiles (Capsicum). Tras la amplia exploración de los dos primeros tomos, centrados en México, esta nueva entrega amplía el horizonte geográfico para abarcar el Caribe, Centro y Sudamérica. Esta obra ofrece un recorrido detallado por la riqueza etnobotán...
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Midwives/healers assist women in rural communities in Mexico and use medicinal plants to relieve different conditions related to reproductive health. This knowledge has been passed down and preserved through generations. The aims of the study were: 1) to document the floristic richness of medicinal plants used in the reproductive health of Zapotec...
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The use of medicinal plants among local experts and the general population of San Sebastián Coatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico was documented. A total of 117 medicinal species were recorded, 61% of which are native to Mexico, being used to treat 16 types of illnesses. In total, 44.4% of medicinal species can be obtained from home gardens. Local experts and ge...
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El Jardín Cassiano Conzatti se ubica desde 1990 en el CIIDIR Oaxaca del IPN en Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán. Es una UMA miembro de la Asociación Mexicana de Jardines Botánicos, y está inscrito en la Agenda Internacional para la Conservación de Jardines Botánicos. Tiene una superficie de 2.5 hectáreas que alberga cuatro colecciones: Cactáceas y suculentas...
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Life in the mountains of Oaxaca (southern Mexico) is characterized by high biological and cultural diversities; both are outstanding in both magnitude and importance and play a major role in the dynamics of the biocultural landscape. This chapter employs the transdisciplinary approach of biocultural ethnobotany to describe and interweave these dive...
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Mexico is the center of origin and diversification of domesticated chile (Capsicum annuum L.). Chile is conceived and employed as both food and medicine in Mexico. In this context, the objective of this paper is to describe and analyze the cultural role of chile as food and as medicine for the body and soul in different cultures of Mexico. To write...
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El libro Memoria Biocultural de la Selva constituye un esfuerzo de profesores-investigadores de la Universidad Intercultural del Estado de Tabasco y sabios locales para documentar el valioso patrimonio biocultural de los ch’oles de la Sierra de Tabasco y Norte de Chiapas. Aquí se entrelazan experiencias relacionadas con los recursos naturales, la a...
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Un grupo de investigadores de la Universidad Veracruzana, del Instituto Tecnológico del Valle de Oaxaca, del CIIDIR Oaxaca del Instituto Politécnico Nacional y del Instituto de Investigación para el Desarrollo, de Francia, se ha dado a la tarea de conjuntar los estudios culturales que sobre el chile se han desarrollado en México.En un esfuerzo inte...
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Hernández Cabrera y Vásquez-Dávila. 1989. Van a caer hasta pejelagartos. Una historia muchas veces vivida: las inundaciones en Tabasco. Áncora Sur, Revista del Instituto Chiapaneco de Cultura 1(1): 41-43. Las crisis significan pérdidas, la comunicación se interrumpe, y casi siempre se truncan vidas humanas. Las crisis también desbordan a la socied...
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Mexico stands out for its cuisine worldwide. Although Mexican biocultural diversity is one of the richest in the world, there is still little research on the relationship between local edible resources and the nutrition of the rural and indigenous communities of this country. We conducted a study on food plants (locally known as quelites) that are...
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Background: Agroforestry systems have cultural, economic, social, and biodiversity conservation significance and are essential for the subsistence of communities. Questions: Is there a difference in the richness, management and use of useful plants present in the agroforestry systems (home gardens, coffee plantations, and milpa)? What is the influ...
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Oaxaca es el estado de mayor diversidad biocultural en México. La interacción humano-ambiente tiene una larga historia en su territorio. Es evidente que la biodiversidad, la cultura y la economía están interconectadas; desafortunadamente la mayoría de prácticas socio-productivas y las políticas públicas están encauzadas de manera descoordinada e in...
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La ubicación del estado de Oaxaca le confiere una de las faunas más diversas y complejas del país. Sus diferencias altitudinales y fisiográficas posibilitan la presencia de diversos hábitats: fríos húmedos, templados, cálido-húmedos, cálido-subhúmedos y secos. Su fauna es un complejo de formas neárticas (con afinidad a la de Norteamérica) y neotrop...
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Este trabajo aborda una doble relación de la etnoecología chontal de Tabasco: la relación de la planta del chicozapote (Manilkara achras) y el murciélago (Artibeus jamaicensis), y la que guardan los chontales de Tabasco con un ser mítico (el hombre-murciélago-jaguar). Este ejemplo permite ir más allá de un estrecho criterio objetivista (herencia de...
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Vásquez-Dávila, M.A. 1995. Uso y manejo de recursos vegetales de Oaxaca. En: Recursos vegetales de Oaxaca. Sociedad y Naturaleza en Oaxaca 2. CONACYT-Oaxaca. México. p. 1-8. ISBN 968-29-7877-7. Para satisfacer sus necesidades, las sociedades humanas descubren y acumulan conocimientos para usar y manejar la naturaleza, estableciendo una relación dia...
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Traditionally ignored by "primitives" and empirical, often identified as the social ballast that prevents us from entering fully into the contemporaneity, and, in any case, admitted with indifference as simple folk curiosity, the knowledge on which it has been sustained for centuries and millennia the daily life of the indigenous peoples of the cou...
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Women's gardens and kitchens promote diversity and conservation of plants, mainly those of edible, medicinal and ornamental use, as well as domestic and wild animals. women's gardens and kitchens promote diversity and conservation of plants, mainly those of edible, medicinal and ornamental use, as well as domestic and wild animals.
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El chile es el condimento de la vida en diversas culturas del mundo. México es el centro de origen y diversificación de la especie domesticada Capsicum annuum L., por lo que el chile se convirtió en elemento identitario y patrimonio biocultural de la nación. A pesar de la importancia de esta planta, desde la academia, se tienen pocos estudios integ...
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Los habitantes del municipio zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía, ubicado en el distrito de Tlacolula, en los valles centrales de Oaxaca, conocen, usan y manejan C. annuum var. glabriusculum, al cual nombran guien guiix (que se traduce como chile de campo). Este chile crece en las huertas familiares y en manchones relictuales del bosque espinoso. En este...
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Background. In Mexico, it is called quelites to certain edible vegetables (young plants, germ, shoots or flowers). Since pre-Hispanic times, quelites have been eaten as a source of vitamins, minerals and proteins. Now, its traditional and healthy consumption has decreased. We studied the quelites of two traditional markets in the Valles Centrales o...
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Los huertos familiares han sido y todavía son ampliamente estudiados, tanto en México como en otras regiones del mundo. Sin embargo, los huertos son aún poco entendidos en su complejidad. Si bien disciplinas como la agroecología, la agroforestería, la etnobotánica e incluso la adopción de métodos de la antropología han contribuido favorablemente a...
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The state of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, stands out for its biocultural diversity that includes the animal genetic resources of the various ethnic and peasant groups. To know the cultural importance (uses and beliefs) of domestic animals for the Ayuuk ethnic group, we conducted interviews and participant observation in thirteen family units of El E...
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In the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico, the municipalities of Santa Catarina Lachato and San Juan Chicomezúchil present contrasting characteristics regarding the management of agrobiodiversity. In order to compare the diversity and uses of backyard animals, an ethnozoological evaluation was made through interviews and participant observation with...
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In order to know and describe the Chinantec and Cuicatec practices in the raising of the Creole pigs in the northwest of Oaxaca, Mexico, 30 women (one per family unit) were interviewed in San Francisco La Reforma (San Pedro Yólox municipality) and 30 in San Francisco Chapulapa. Backyard swine production is an activity with economic, cultural, and s...
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The homegarden (HG) is an agro-ecosystem with a prehistoric origin managed by women. The HG is important in the survival of large numbers of ethnic and peasant groups and contains a considerable biological and cultural diversity. We inventoried the ethnoflora of 15 HG, and interviewed their owners (13 women and 2 men). Agrobiodiversity of HG is rem...
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Identification of Podaxis species to species-level based on morphology alone is problematic. Thus, species of the genus Podaxis are in dire need of taxonomic and phylogenetic evaluations using molecular data to develop a consensus between morphological taxonomy and more robust molecular analyses. In Mexico, most of the collected specimens of Podaxi...
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Partiendo del supuesto de que la horticultura doméstica practicada por las mujeres zapotecas como un proceso social ha coadyuvado a la continuidad de la sociedad serrana, realizamos trabajo de campo en dos localidades de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca (Talea de Castro y San Bartolomé Yatoni) con el objetivo de indagar tres características de la campesin...
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We summarize results of two independent ethnobiological field studies in adjacent Zapotec towns in the Sierra de Miahuatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico. San Juan and San Pedro Mixtepec share a common language (with minor lexical variation) and occupy contiguous traditional municipal territories ranging from 1650 m to 3700 m elevation and practice a common subs...
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We inquire the role of ducks as animal zoogenetic resource in nine ethnic groups of Southeast Mexico through case studies. We conducted fieldwork on ducks' traditional breeding with Chontals, Huaves, Mazatecs, Mixes, Triquis and Zapotec people from Oaxaca, Choles and Lacandon from Chiapas and with Chontals from Tabasco. In mixed flocks of indigenou...
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The aim of our study was to document the traditional use and captive breeding of Cracids in the backyards of six ethnic groups of southern Mexico: Chol and Lacandon of Chiapas and Chinantecs, Chontal, Huaves and Zapotecs of Oaxaca. Four Cracids species are raised in indigenous backyards: two Chachalacas (Ortalis vetula and O. poliocephala), Guan (P...
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In order to eliminate dormancy and improve seed germination of Cenchrus ciliaris L. and Brachiaria brizantha cv. Marandu, was determined the effect of treatments: a) physical: seed immersion during different times 12, 24 and 48 h in water with constant circulation; b) Chemicals: immersion during different times 2 and 4 min in H2SO4 diluted at 50% a...
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Traditional ecological knowledge involves local people's beliefs and values, and also the ecology, conservation and sustainability importance. As part of this knowledge, mammals have been fundamental in the development of human groups because of their ecological, cultural and economic values. Traditional knowledge about mammals on a particular regi...
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RESUMEN Resultado de una larga tradición prehistórica etno-agroecológica que promueve la diversidad, los huertos familiares constituyen un reservorio de agrodiversidad y la biodiversidad asociada en las regiones indígenas de Oaxaca. Por ello resulta paradójica la desatención de los investigadores y agentes de desarrollo comunitario sobre los huerto...
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Vásquez-Dávila, M.A. 2008. Nephila clavipes (Nephilidae, Araneae): primer reporte de aracnofagia en Mesoamérica. Etnobiología 6: 91-92.

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