Table 1 Main topic addressed during the interviews. The trigger questions were especially taken up and discussed by indigenous women from the Totonac and Nahua groups
Trigger questions in interviews | Totonac woman (n = 5) | Nahua woman (n = 3) | Totonac man (n = 3) | Nahua man (n = 2) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
History | Transmission of local knowledge | Culture-nature relationship in ethnicity | Traditional medicine and the use of wild plants | Ethnic nursing treatments |
System of belief, values, and traditions | The community's past | Worldview in the context of edible plants | Deities in the ethnic group | Community in the past and present |
Traditional foods | Identification of edible plants and their preparation | Rescue of biocultural memory and ceremonial foods | Location and management of edible plants | Management of edible plants |
Context in pandemic COVID-19 | Revaluing the territory | Plants associated with nutrition and health | Revalorization of the biocultural food memory | Food memory in the ethnic group |