Ethnobiology for the future : linking cultural and ecological diversity / edited by Gary Paul Nabhan ; foreword by Paul E. Minnis ; with drawings by Paul Mirocha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nabhan, Gary Paul, editor.

Series:

Southwest Center series

The Southwest Center series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnobiology.

Biodiversity.

Cultural pluralism.

Physical Description:

xi, 309 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.

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.

Contents:

Part I Redefining Ethnobiology: Toward a General Theory of the Interactions of Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity 11

1 Ethnobiology Emerging from a Time of Crisis 13

2 Defining New Disciplinary Trajectories Mixing Political Ecology with Ethnobiology 18

3 Ethnoscience, the "Oldest Science": A Needed Complement to Academic Science and Citizen Science to Stem the Losses of Biodiversity, Indigenous Languages, and Livelihoods 23

4 Autobiology?: The Traditional Ecological, Agricultural, and Culinary Knowledge of Us! 36

5 Searching for the Ancestral Diet: Did Mitochondrial Eve and Java Man Feast on the Same Foods? 42

6 Microbial Ethnobiology and the Loss of Distinctive Food Cultures 63

7 Ethnophenology and Climate Change 67

Part II Exemplifying How Ethnobiology Serves as a Pivotal Interdiscipline in Biocultural Conservation 73

8 Safeguarding Species, Languages, and Cultures in a Time of Diversity Loss: From the Colorado Plateau to Global Hotspots 75

9 Agrobiodiversity in an Oasis Archipelago 96

10 Passing on a Sense of Place and Traditional Ecological Knowledge between Generations 144

11 Biocultural and Ecogastronomic Restoration: The Renewing America's Food Traditions Alliance 156

12 Conservation You Can Taste: Heirloom Seed and Heritage Breed Recovery in North America 184

13 Multiple Lines of Evidence for the Origin of Domesticated Chile Pepper, Capsicum annuum, in Mexico 197

14 Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Endangered Species: Is Ethnobiology for the Birds? 215

Part III Writing Ethnobiology For Broader Appeal and Impact 223

15 Guadalupe Lopez Blanco: Reflections on How a Sea Turtle Hunter Turned His Community Toward Conservation 225

16 Paleozoologist Paul Martin, the Ghosts of Evolution, and the Rewilding of North America 233

17 Parque de la Papa: Vavilov's Dream for Potatoes? 243

18 Why Poetry Needs Ethnobiology: Hawkmoth Songs and Cross-Pollinations 249

19 Aromas Emanating from the Driest of Places 261

20 The Ethnobiology of Survival in Post-Apocalyptic Dystopias 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816532742

0816532745

OCLC:

928136728