Research Catalog

Title

Ethnoecology : situated knowledge/located lives / edited by Virginia D. Nazarea.

Publication

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors

Nazarea, Virginia D. (Virginia Dimasuay), 1954-

Description

xii, 299 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Subject

• Ethnobiology
• Human ecology
• Traditional farming
• Biotic communities
• Indians > Ethnobiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: a view from a point : ethnoecology as situated knowledge / Virginia D. Nazarea -- Cultural memory and sense of place -- The value of subsistence for the future of the world / Eugene S. Hunn -- Practical and religious meanings of the Navajo hogan / Lillie Lane -- The agronomy of memory and the memory of agronomy: ritual conservation of archaic cultigens in contemporary farming systems / Michael R. Dove -- Ethnoecology serving the community : a case study from Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico / Richard I. Ford -- Refocusing ethnoecology's gaze -- Lenses and latitudes in landscapes and lifescapes / Virginia D. Nazarea -- Cultural landscapes and biodiversity : the ethnoecology of an upper Río Grande watershed commons / Devon G. Pena -- Conserving folk crop varieties : different agricultures, different goals / Daniela Soleri and Steven E. Smith -- Ethnoecology makes a difference -- Plant constituents and the nutrition and health of indigenous peoples / Timothy Johns -- Sustainable production and harvest of medicinal and aromatic herbs in the Sierras de Cördoba region, Argentina / Marta Lagrotteria and James M. Affolter -- Managing the Maya commons : the value of local knowledge / Scott Atran -- Local knowledge in global context -- Safeguarding traditional resource rights of indigenous peoples / Darrell A. Posey -- A practical primer on intellectual property rights in a contemporary ethnoecological context / David J. Stephenson, Jr. -- Toward compensation : returning benefits from ethnobotanical drug discovery to native peoples / Katy Moran -- Am I my brother's keeper? / Cristine S. Kabuye -- Epilogue: Quo vadis? : the promise of ethnoecology / Robert E. Rhoades and Jack Harlan.

Call Number

JFE 99-4125

ISBN

0816518823 (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN

98025481

OCLC

39498030

Title

Ethnoecology : situated knowledge/located lives / edited by Virginia D. Nazarea.

Imprint

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1999.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Nazarea, Virginia D. (Virginia Dimasuay), 1954-

Research Call Number

JFE 99-4125