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An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure. Fang HomegardenOrganization as Means to Prevent from Health Risks

机译：一盎司的预防值得一磅的治疗。方家花园组织作为预防健康风险的手段

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The ethnobiological analysis of Fang homegardens in Southern Cameroon reveals striking contrasts betweenthe frontyard and the backyard. Plants and their uses, as well as attitudes of villagers, clearly reflect opposite functions.The frontyard is a public space that is regularly maintained in a clean state. This is a pleasing and freely accessible space,where plants are mainly ornamental or provide only slight shade, as this space must remain well illuminated and offer abright view. By contrast, the backyard is a dark private space. Access is restricted and protected by magic. In this space,people communicate with the supernatural world, discretely experiment with new magical, medicinal, and food plants.Like the two sides of a coin, the frontyard and the backyard have complementary values that can be understood only in thelight of the turbulent history of the Fang. They constitute powerful physical, spatial and cultural poles that fulfill a seriesof embedded functions that mark out the life history of the Fang, the social relationships within different members of thecommunities, and the symbolically rich settings for everyday life and rituals. Ultimately, they form an assemblage thatefficiently reduces exposure to diseases. The cultural control of risks on health does not only concern the physical andfunctional layouts of the landscape—that efficiently reduce the incidence of vector-borne and transmissible diseases—butit also concerns the symbolic control of supernatural forces, which are much less immediately tangible causes of sickness,pain, trouble, conflict and even death.
机译：在喀麦隆南部对芳家花园进行的民族生物学分析揭示了前院与后院之间的鲜明对比。植物及其用途以及村民的态度清楚地反映了相反的功能。前院是一个公共场所，经常保持清洁状态。这是一个令人愉悦且可自由访问的空间，其中的植物主要是装饰性的或仅提供轻微的阴影，因为该空间必须保持良好的照明并提供明亮的视野。相比之下，后院是一个黑暗的私人空间。访问受到魔术的限制和保护。在这个空间中，人们与超自然世界进行交流，离散地尝试新的魔法，药用和食用植物。就像硬币的两个侧面一样，前院和后院具有互补的价值，只有在动荡的历史中才能理解这些价值。的它们构成了强大的物理，空间和文化极点，它们履行了一系列嵌入的功能，这些功能标出了芳族人的生活史，社区不同成员之间的社会关系以及象征性的日常生活和仪式环境。最终，它们形成有效减少疾病暴露的组合。对健康风险的文化控制不仅涉及景观的物理和功能布局（有效降低媒介传播和传播疾病的发生率），而且还涉及对超自然力量的象征性控制，而超自然力量的象征性控制远不及这些直接原因。疾病，疼痛，麻烦，冲突甚至死亡。

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