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

Title
Ethnobiology for the future : linking cultural and ecological diversity / edited by Gary Paul Nabhan ; foreword by Paul E. Minnis ; with drawings by Paul Mirocha.
Publication
  • Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Nabhan, Gary Paul
  • Minnis, Paul E.
Description
xi, 309 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 23 cm.
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" --
Series Statement
Southwest Center series
Uniform Title
Southwest Center series.
Subject
  • Ethnobiology
  • Biodiversity
  • Cultural pluralism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part 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 -- Part 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? -- Part 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.
ISBN
  • 9780816532742
  • 0816532745
LCCN
^^2015038536
OCLC
  • 928136728
  • SCSB-12784164
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library