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The Role Of Indigenous Healing Practices In Environmental Protection Among The Maccaa Oromo Of Ilu Abbaa Bora And Jimma Zones, Ethiopia

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  • Milkessa Edae TUFA

    (Department of Oromo Folklore and Literature, Jimma University, Ethiopia)

  • Fesseha Mulu GEBREMARIAM

    (Department of Governance and Development Studies, Jimma University, Ethiopia)

Abstract

This article mainly attempted to explore the role of utilizing indigenous medicines in environmental protection among the Maccaa Oromo of Jimma and Iluu Abba bora zone, south-western Ethiopia. To this end, 4 separate interviews with 4 interviewees, 2 focus group discussions with 17 participants, and non-participant field observation were conducted to generate significant and reliable data. Besides, the researchers employed secondary data to make the study more significant and complete. The findings of the study show that since the source of medicines is the environment, the community protects their environment unless the society wouldn’t accessed the natural medicines they need. The study also reveals that most of these folk medicines used by the Maccaa Oromos are from plants. This further indicates the society protects the natural environment to get the plants they use for medication. Thus, folk healing practices are crucial on the one hand to treat illnesses, and to protect the ecosystem on the other hand. However, these societal knowledge is undermined as well as they are being replaced by western (scientific) knowledge, modern medicines. These days, our planet is suffering from global warming, wild fire, flooding, drought, and desertification. Averting these threats is impossible without protecting societal environmental indigenous knowledge.

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  • Milkessa Edae TUFA & Fesseha Mulu GEBREMARIAM, 2017. "The Role Of Indigenous Healing Practices In Environmental Protection Among The Maccaa Oromo Of Ilu Abbaa Bora And Jimma Zones, Ethiopia," Social Sciences and Education Research Review, Department of Communication, Journalism and Education Sciences, University of Craiova, vol. 4(1), pages 30-53, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:edt:jsserr:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:30-53
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    1. Materer, Susan M. & Valdivia, Corinne & Gilles, Jere L., 2002. "Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Characteristics and Importance to Climatic Uncertainty," Working Papers 92903, University of Missouri Columbia, Department of Agricultural Economics.
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    Keywords

    Ecosystem; Environmental conservation; Folk healing; Indigenous medicines; Maccaa Oromo;
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    JEL classification:

    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries

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