Ethnobiology for the future : linking cultural and ecological diversity /

Ethnobiology for the future : linking cultural and ecological diversity /

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Imprint:Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2016]
Description:xi, 309 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:The Southwest Center series
Southwest Center series.
Subject:
Ethnobiology.
Biodiversity.
Cultural pluralism.
Biodiversity.
Cultural pluralism.
Ethnobiology.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10539709
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Other authors / contributors:Nabhan, Gary Paul, editor.
ISBN:9780816532742
0816532745
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"The book centers on a call to define/redefine the field of ethnobiology and the need for doing so. It points a major way forward for ethnobiology: toward engagement with people and communities that are saving ecosystems and lifestyles through reviving traditional agricultural items and techniques, and integrating them into the contemporary world"--Provided by publisher.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Letter to Young Ethnobiologists
  • Part I. Redefining Ethnobiology: Toward a General Theory of the Interactions of Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity
  • 1. Ethnobiology Emerging from a Time of Crisis
  • 2. Defining New Disciplinary Trajectories Mixing Political Ecology with Ethnobiology
  • 3. Ethnoscience, the "Oldest Science": A Needed Complement to Academic Science and Citizen Science to Stem the Losses of Biodiversity, Indigenous Languages, and Livelihoods
  • 4. Autobiology?: The Traditional Ecological, Agricultural, and Culinary Knowledge of Us!
  • 5. Searching for the Ancestral Diet: Did Mitochondrial Eve and Java Man Feast on the Same Foods?
  • 6. Microbial Ethnobiology and the Loss of Distinctive Food Cultures
  • 7. Ethnophenology and Climate Change
  • Part II. Exemplifying How Ethnobiology Serves as a Pivotal Interdiscipline in Biocultural Conservation
  • 8. Safeguarding Species, Languages, and Cultures in a Time of Diversity Loss: From the Colorado Plateau to Global Hotspots
  • 9. Agrobiodiversity in an Oasis Archipelago
  • 10. Passing on a Sense of Place and Traditional Ecological Knowledge between Generations
  • 11. Biocultural and Ecogastronomic Restoration: The Renewing America's Food Traditions Alliance
  • 12. Conservation You Can Taste: Heirloom Seed and Heritage Breed Recovery in North America
  • 13. Multiple Lines of Evidence for the Origin of Domesticated Chile Pepper, Capsicum annuum, in Mexico
  • 14. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Endangered Species: Is Ethnobiology for the Birds?
  • Part III. Writing Ethnobiology For Broader Appeal and Impact
  • 15. Guadalupe Lopez Blanco: Reflections on How a Sea Turtle Hunter Turned His Community Toward Conservation
  • 16. Paleozoologist Paul Martin, the Ghosts of Evolution, and the Rewilding of North America
  • 17. Parque de la Papa: Vavilov's Dream for Potatoes?
  • 18. Why Poetry Needs Ethnobiology: Hawkmoth Songs and Cross-Pollinations
  • 19. Aromas Emanating from the Driest of Places
  • 20. The Ethnobiology of Survival in Post-Apocalyptic Dystopias
  • Afterword: Ethnobiology in Metamorphosis
  • Contributors
  • Index
Purchased by the Francis H. Dowley Endowed Library Fund bookplate

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