Curating biocultural collections : a handbook / edited by Jan Salick, Katie Konchar and Mark Nesbitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salick, Jan, editor.

Konchar, Katie, editor.

Nesbitt, Mark, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botanical gardens--Curatorship.

Botanical gardens.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kew, [England] : Royal Botanic Gardens, 2014.

Summary:

Biocultural collections cross the boundary between nature and culture, documenting the remarkable richness and diversity of human engagement with the natural world.With materials ranging from blocks of wood to DNA, and from ancient books to new websites, they play a diverse role in research and relaying valuable information about our world..

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Section I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Biocultural collections: needs, ethics, and goals / Jan Salick, Katie Konchar and Mark Nesbitt

Box: Ethical standards in ethnobiology / Ethnobiology Working Group

Featured Biocultural Collections

Missouri Botanical Garden, Biocultural Collection / Katie Konchar and Jan Salick

National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, Economic Botany Collection / Peter Wyse Jackson and Matthew Jebb

National Museum of Natural History, Paris, Ethnobiology Collections / Serge Bahuchet

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Economic Botany Collection / Mark Nesbitt

Smithsonian Collections / Michelle Austin-Dennehy and Adrienne Kaeppler

Section II. Practical Curation of Biocultural Collections - Materials

Chapter 2. Curating ethnographic specimens / Jan Timbrook

Box: Curating ethnographic textiles

Box: Labelling: what not to do

Chapter 3. Herbarium curation of biocultural plant collections and vouchers / Jan Salick and James Solomon

Box: Herbarium collections

Chapter 4. Curating ethnobiological products / Michael J. Balick and Katherine Herrera

Box: The Henry Hurd Rusby collection of economic botany

Chapter 5. Curating paleoethnobotanical specimens and botanical reference collections / Deborah M. Pearsall

Chapter 6. Curating ethnozoological and zooarchaeological collections / Terrance Martin

Chapter 7. Curating DNA specimens / David M. Spooner and Holly Ruess

Chapter 8. Curating seeds and other genetic resources for ethnobiology / David Dierig, Harvey Blackburn, David Ellis and Mark Nesbitt

Box: United States National Plant Germplasm System

Box: Storage Protocols for Seeds at National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP)

Box: Project MGU: The Useful Plants Project at the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) / Tiziana Ulian.

Chapter 9. Curating xylaria / Alex C. Wiedenhoeft

Chapter 10. Living plant collections and ethnobotany in botanic gardens / Andrew Wyatt

Box: Living biocultural collections

Section III. Practical Curation of Biocultural Collections - Reference Materials and Metadata

Chapter 11. Database standards for biocultural collections / Alyse Kuhlman and Jan Salick

Chapter 12. Curating ethnographic information for biocultural collections / Serge Bahuchet

Box: Biocultural collections of French Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Box: Recovering cultural context: a basketry shield from the Amazon / Cristina Rico Liria

Box: Process is important: Cuban cigars / Peter Wyse Jackson

Box: Process is important: mastic / Peter Wyse Jackson

Box: Draft structure for the ethnobiographical data base in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris / Flora Pennec, Simon Juraver, Marina Quine and Serge Bahuchet

Chapter 13. Cataloguing and curation of ethnobiological books and archives / Judith Warnement

Box: Botanical and economic botany library collections of Harvard

Box: Conservation at the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden

Box: Storage and display at the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden

Box: Palmer Collections at Harvard

Chapter 14. Curating ethnobiographical photographs / Will McClatchey and Kim Bridges

Box: A specific example of archival storage

Chapter 15. Linguistic and audio-video collections in ethnobiology / K. David Harrison and Karim Sariahmed

Chapter 16. Legal aspects of biocultural collections / Charles R. McManis and John S. Pelletier

Section IV. Contexts and Perspectives on Biocultural Collections

Chapter 17. Indigenous perceptions of biocultural collections / Jane Mt. Pleasant.

Chapter 18. Native Americans perspectives on biocultural collections and cultural restoration / Linda S. Bishop

Chapter 19. Multicultural perspectives on biocultural collections / Neil R. Crouch, Henrik Balslev, Kamal Bawa, Robert Bye, Sangay Dema, Edelmira Linares, Pei Shengji, Armand Randrianasolo and John Rashford

Box: Repatriation of the Zimbabwe Birds / Neil R. Crouch

Chapter 20. Historical perspectives on Western ethnobotanical collections / Caroline Cornish and Mark Nesbitt

Box: The ethnobotany collection - Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro / Viviane Stern Da Fonseca-Kruel

Section V. Broader Impacts of Biocultural Collections

Chapter 21. Research using biocultural collections / David M. Spooner

Chapter 22. Use of herbarium specimens in ethnobotany / Mark Nesbitt

Chapter 23. Biocultural collections for conservation / Robbie Hart, Wayne Law and Peter Wyse Jackson

Chapter 24. Using biocultural colletions for education / Catrina T. Adams and Gayle J. Fritz

Box: Sacred seeds - a global network of living useful plants collections / Ashley Glenn

Chapter 25. Biocultural collections: the view from an art museum / Matthew H. Robb

Chapter 26. Biocultural collections: exhibition concept, planning, and design / Tom Klobe and Michael B. Thomas

Subject Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-84246-509-0

OCLC:

957435875