Ethnobiology for the Future : Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nabhan, Gary Paul.

Contributor:

Minnis, Paul E.

Series:

Southwest Center Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnobiology.

Cultural pluralism.

Biodiversity.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tucson : 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:

Pt. 1. Redefining ethnobiology : toward a general theory of the interactions of biodiversity and cultural diversity. Ethnobiology emerging from a time of crisis

Defining new disciplinary trajectories : mixing political ecology with ethnobiology

Ethnoscience, the "oldest science" : a needed complement to academic science and citizen science to stem the losses of biodiversity, Indigenous languages, and livelihoods

Autobiology? : the traditional ecological, agricultural, and culinary knowledge of us!

Searching for the ancestral diet : Did mitochondrial Eve and Java Man feast on the same foods?

Microbial ethnobiology and the loss of distinctive food cultures

Ethnophenology and climate change

pt. 2. Exemplifying how ethnobiology serves as a pivotal interdiscipline in biocultural conservation. Safeguarding species, languages, and cultures in a time of diversity loss : from the Colorado Plateau to global hotspots

Agrobiodiversity in an oasis archipelago

Passing on a sense of place and traditional ecological knowledge between generations

Biocultural and ecogastronomic restoration : the renewing America's food traditions alliance

Conservation you can taste : heirloom seed and heritage breed recovery in North America

Multiple lines of evidence for the origin of domesticated chile pepper, capsicum annuum, in Mexico

Traditional ecological knowledge and endangered species : Is ethnobiology for the birds?

pt. 3. Writing ethnobiology for broader appeal and impact. Guadalupe Lopez Blanco : reflections on how a sea turtle hunter turned his community toward conservation

Paleozoologist Paul Martin, the ghosts of evolution, and the rewilding of North America

Parque de la Papa : Vavilov's dream for potatoes?

Why poetry needs ethnobiology : hawkmoth songs and cross-pollinations

Aromas emanating from the driest of places

The ethnobiology of survival in post-apocalyptic dystopias.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8165-3367-9

OCLC:

1534803066