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id: ebl-10
author: Dezendorf, Caroline
title: The Effects of Food Processing on the Archaeological Visibility of Maize: An Experimental Study of Carbonization of Lime-treated Maize Kernels
date: 2013-01-19
words: 4865
flesch: 45
summary: Therefore, maize kernels processed by sprouting or toasting, which have high percentages of extrusion, are unlikely to survive, especially compared to boiled kernels, which only have an extrusion percentage of 10-15% (Goette et al. 1994). Based on experimental design from Goette et al. (1994) and King (1987), an experiment was constructed to analyze size variability among maize kernels that were a) dried, b) alkali processed, c) dried and carbonized, and d) alkali processed and carbonized.
keywords: alkali; carbonization; kernels; king; maize; processing; varieties; width
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id: ebl-1006
author: Wyndham, Felice S.
title: The Trouble With TEK
date: 2017-08-07
words: 1445
flesch: 55
summary: I remember that in my first year as a graduate student, I was shocked at how prevalent the use of acronyms and abbreviations was in the anthropology literature we read (predominantly those published after, say, 1980)—thus I was introduced to ABM, STS, ANT, and, yes, TEK. But, as the use of the additional shortcut of its acronym form grows more popular and spawns a hundred offspring (WEP, TFS, IK, LEK, etc., see above), we could surely agree that by not even bothering to spell out the words traditional, ecological, and knowledge, writing or uttering TEK instead, we lose all hope of remember- ing that we are communicating about living breathing relations.
keywords: acronyms; ethnobiology; knowledge; tek; way; wyndham
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id: ebl-1060
author: Bannister, Kelly
title: From Ethical Codes to Ethics as Praxis: An Invitation
date: 2018-07-11
words: 9172
flesch: 40
summary: This paper brings together Willie Ermine’s concept of “ethical space” and Darrell Posey’s recognition of the spiritual values of biodiversity with a unique selection of insights from other fields of practice, such a s intercultural communication, conflict resolution and martial arts, to invite a new conceptualization of research ethics in ethnobiology as ethical praxis. Received July 20, 2017 OPEN ACCESS Accepted February 15, 2018 DOI 10.14237/ebl.9.1.2018.1060 Keywords Ethical space, Biocultural ethics, Research ethics, Ethical guidelines, Ethical praxis Copyright © 2018 by the author(s); licensee Society of Ethnobiology.
keywords: bannister; biocultural; canada; code; ermine; ethics; ethnobiology; ise; knowledge; new; perspectives; posey; practice; praxis; research; research ethics; space; understanding
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id: ebl-1076
author: McCune, Letitia M.
title: The Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Seed Rights during Ethnobotanical Research
date: 2018-07-11
words: 5171
flesch: 45
summary: As in the past, they are often housed in national and international seed banks without specifying what will be done with them via access and benefit sharing agreements with The Protec on of Indigenous Peoples’ Seed Rights during Ethnobotanical Research Le a M. McCune 1* 1 BotanyDoc LLC, Tucson, AZ, USA. * le amccune@gmail.com Abstract Recogni on of the importance of biodiversity for global food security and the community food sustainability movement has helped increase awareness of seed rights. International agreements Two of the key international agreements addressing seed rights are The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (also known as the Seed Treaty) and the Nagoya Protocol.
keywords: access; agreements; banks; breeders; ethnobiology; farmers; international; peoples; plant; resources; rights; seed; use
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id: ebl-11
author: Wolverton, Steve
title: Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change
date: 2013-01-21
words: 3657
flesch: 35
summary: No longer an unadulterated convergence of ethnozoology with ethnobotany (Ford 2011), the short definition of ethnobiology used by the Society of Ethnobiology is “the scientific study of dynamic relationships among peoples, biota, and environ- ments.” Indeed, Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change Steve Wolverton Author address: University of North Texas, Department of Geography, Ins tute of Applied Science, Denton, TX 76203. wolverton@unt.edu Received: September 24, 2012 Volume: 4:21‐25 Published: January 21, 2013 © 2013 Society of Ethnobiology Abstract: Ethnobiology 5 stems from Eugene Hunn’s four phases of the history of ethnobiology and focuses on the relevance of ethnobiological research in the context of environmental and cultural change.
keywords: conservation; ethnobiologists; ethnobiology; nabhan; research
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id: ebl-1100
author: McAlvay, Alex
title: Plants and Health: New Perspectives on the Health-Environment-Plant Nexus. Edited by Elizabeth Anne Olson and John Richard Stepp. 2016. Springer, Switzerland. 175 pp.
date: 2017-10-09
words: 947
flesch: 35
summary: Stepp (Chapter 7) propounds the idea of importing diversity indices from ecology to better understand the asymmetrical distribution of medicinal plant knowledge in and across communities. LaPlante (Chapter 2) and Bridges (Chapter 4) highlight local concepts of strengthening and health maintenance from plants that depart from treatment- centric ontologies, and Bridges (Chapter 4) demonstrates how medicinal plants strengthen social ties as well as physical bodies in Napo Runa communities.
keywords: chapter; ethnobiology; health; plants
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id: ebl-1106
author: Ávila Nájera, Dulce María; Naranjo, Eduardo J; Tigar, Barbara Jane; Villarreal, Oscar Agustin; Mendoza, Germán David
title: An Evaluation of the Contemporary Uses and Cultural Significance of Mammals in Mexico
date: 2018-08-05
words: 4667
flesch: 53
summary: Ethnobiology Le ers 9(2):124–135 127 Research Communica ons Taxonomic Classifica on Conserva on Status Number of Uses Reported CVI ORDER ARTIODACTYLA FAMILY CERVIDAE Mazama temama 9 10.04 Odocoileus hemionus 43 1.75 Odocoileus virginianus 11 18.32 FAMILY TAYASSUIDAE Pecari tajacu 9 11.90 Tayassu pecari 8 5.75 ORDER CARNIVORA FAMILY CANIDAE Canis latrans 9 6.49 Urocyon cinereoargenteus 11 8.41 FAMILY FELIDAE Leopardus pardalis R 7 6.31 Leopardus wiedii R 9 7.87 Lynx rufus 76 3.94 Puma concolor Ethnobiology Le ers 9(2):124–135 128 Research Communica ons Taxonomic Classifica on Conserva on Status Number of Uses Reported CVI FAMILY MUSTELIDAE Lontra longicaudis 8 5.09 Mustela frenata 7 8.51 Taxidea taxus E 32 1.21 FAMILY PROCYONIDAE Bassariscus astutus E 1 0.46 Bassariscus sumichras P 4 1.98 Nasua narica 11 14.75 Potos flavus P 6 5.67 Procyon lotor 10 11.28 ORDER CHIROPTERA
keywords: alves; conservation; cvi; ethnobiology; family; mammals; mexico; number; research; species; total; uses
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id: ebl-1117
author: Pedrosa, Kamila Marques; Lucena, Camila Marques; Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva; Lopes, Sérgio de Faria
title: Traditional Techniques for the Management of Cactaceae in the Americas: The Relationship between Use and Conservation
date: 2018-11-01
words: 4741
flesch: 54
summary: Recent studies in Mexico (Blancas et al. 2010; Casas et al. 2001), Cuba (Fuentes 2005), Colombia (Fernández-Alonso 2006), the United States (Apadoca 2001), and Brazil (Lucena et al. 2012, Lucena et al. 2013; Lucena et al. 2015) have investigated the management of cacti (Casas et al. 1997, 2006; Lucena et al. 2013; Pérez-Negron et al. 2007) by different ethnic populations (local and traditional groups) who have used the resource for a variety of purposes (Lins-Neto et al. 2012). The strategies used change according to the biocultural issues present in a community, and can vary from vegetative propagation of the species to the reduction of competition from non-useful plants (Blancas et al. 2009; Clement et al. 2010; González-Insuasti et al. 2007), by means of practices that employ selection Pedrosa et al. 2018.
keywords: brazil; cactaceae; cacti; casas; casas et; et al; local; lucena; management; species
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id: ebl-1119
author: Anderson, Eugene N.
title: Moral Ecology of a Forest: The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation. By José Martínez-Reyes. 2016. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 216 pp.
date: 2017-12-31
words: 1084
flesch: 57
summary: Meanwhile, Tres Reyes continues to exist in substantial poverty. I know Tres Reyes somewhat, know some of the people Martínez-Reyes mentions, and followed some of the plans and NGO activities he discusses.
keywords: anderson; martínez; reyes; university
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id: ebl-112
author: Musch, Tilman
title: Outline of an Anthropological Contribution to the Study of Snake Venom Variability: The Case of Echis sp. Envenomation
date: 2014-03-19
words: 4254
flesch: 56
summary: The assumption that E. leucogaster venom may act in the same way as venom from other Echis spp. is nevertheless surprising when considering the wide range of venom variability, in particular on an interspecies level. Introduction The present paper outlines an ethnozoological and ethnomedical approach to snake venom variability as a contribution to interdisciplinary research.1 First, in a brief theoretical overview, the anthropological input to such research, as well as to the topic of venom variability, will be discussed.
keywords: chippaux; echis; envenomation; heart; leucogaster; research; snake; species; variability; venom
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id: ebl-117
author: Smith, Alexia; Branting, Scott
title: Some Phrygian Plant and Insect Remains from Kerkenes Dağ, Central Anatolia (Turkey)
date: 2014-04-29
words: 5068
flesch: 52
summary: Some Phrygian Plant and Insect Remains from Kerkenes Dağ, Central Anatolia (Turkey) 44 Research Communica on nature of the architecture and the preservation of material across the site, and 2) compare this infor- mation with preliminary results of earlier remote sensing survey work (Summers and Summers 1996). During the 1996 season, test trenches were excavated at Kerkenes Dağ in order to: 1) better understand the Some Phrygian Plant and Insect Remains from Kerkenes Dağ, Central Anatolia (Turkey) Alexia Smith 1* and Sco Bran ng 2 Author address: 1 University of Connec cut, Department of Anthropology, Beach Hall Room 406, U‐1176, 354 Mansfield Road, Storrs, Connec cut 06269‐1176 USA, 2 The Oriental Ins tute, Room 207, The University of Chicago, 1155 East 58 th Street, Chicago,
keywords: anatolia; dağ; http://kerk1.metu.edu.tr/12propub/kerknews/2000/index.html �; kerkenes; mas; plant; remains; summers; turkey; university
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id: ebl-1177
author: Townsend, Patricia K.
title: Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring. By Frederick H. Damon. 2017. Berghahn, New York. 375 pp.
date: 2018-06-05
words: 1195
flesch: 54
summary: Discussing the construction of mast, outrigger float, keel, strakes, ribs, rudder, and decorative carvings, Damon returns to the properties of trees that make them suitable or unsuitable for each part of the boat. As an ethnobiologist Damon sees himself as the mediator between two sets of experts on trees: the Pacific Islanders he revisits over a period of forty years, and the botanists in herbaria at Harvard and Lae who work with his voucher specimens.
keywords: damon; knots; muyuw; trees
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id: ebl-12
author: Ramsey, Monica
title: Sustainable Lifeways: Cultural Persistence in an Ever-Changing Environment
date: 2013-07-23
words: 1254
flesch: 40
summary: Chapters 2 through 4 present ethnographic evidence of pastoralist strategies to buffer risk. The edited volume addresses three key questions: how do societies perceive environmental risk?
keywords: chapter; miller; risk
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id: ebl-1228
author: Fisher, Jacob
title: Archaeology and Biogeography of the Western Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata) in the Puget Sound Region
date: 2018-09-10
words: 5549
flesch: 50
summary: While turtle soup, turtle doves, and the expression “turning turtle” (a capsized vessel or turned automobile) were common hits, there was not a single reference to local exploitation of turtle populations. Throughout this range, pond turtle populations continue to dwindle due to a variety of factors, including habitat fragmentation, competition with non-native species, and possibly a lack of genetic variability.
keywords: california; fisher; marmorata; north; pond; populations; puget; region; sound; species; specimens; turtle; washington; western
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item: #15 of 189
id: ebl-123
author: Law, Matt
title: Living in a Dangerous Climate: Climate Change and Human Evolution
date: 2014-04-07
words: 1666
flesch: 45
summary: (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. Review of Living in a Dangerous Climate: Climate Change and Human Evolution 42 Book Review catalyst to spur human migration.
keywords: adobe; book; change; climate; human
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id: ebl-1261
author: Anderson, Eugene N.
title: Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan. By Charlotte von Verschuer. Translated and Edited by Wendy Cobcroft. Routledge, New York. 356 pp.
date: 2018-06-05
words: 818
flesch: 58
summary: We have put forward a number of facts regarding the coexistence of rice growing and dry cereal cultivation, the practice of swidden farming, the gathering of plant foods, the relative proportion of cultivated and wild plants in the diet, and finally the cultural portrayal of rice and the other cereals” (296). An appendix lists 144 species of plants that were important food or industrial crops.
keywords: food; japan; rice
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id: ebl-127
author: Pierotti, Raymond; Annett, Cynthia
title: We Probably Thought That Would Be True: Perceiving Complex Emotional States in Nonhumans
date: 2014-01-11
words: 5044
flesch: 59
summary: We observed largemouth bass in groups of 4-5 individuals surround a clump of aquatic vegetation, and then one individual would lunge into the vegetation, while its companions picked off small fish and invertebrates dislodged or startled by the rush (Annett 1998). To begin with Braithwaite’s Do Fish Feel Pain?
keywords: animals; behavior; female; fish; grief; humans; king; pain; pierotti; scientists; species
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id: ebl-1271
author: Delgado, Cesar; Romero, Rosa; Vásquez Espinoza, Rosa; Trigozo, Marcial; Correa, Rocio
title: Rhynchophorus palmarum used in Traditional Medicine in the Peruvian Amazon
date: 2019-12-10
words: 4984
flesch: 57
summary: Casas, R. R., L. Pawera, P. P. P. Villegas, and Z. Polesny. 2018. Rhynchophorus palmarum used in Traditional Medicine in the Peruvian Amazon Cesar Delgado 1* , Rosa Romero 2 , Rosa Vásquez Espinoza 3 , Marcial Trigozo 1 , and Rocio Correa 1 1 Programa de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Instituto de Investigaciones de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Perú.
keywords: acid; amazon; communities; delgado; diseases; et al; insects; larva; oil; palmarum; suri; use
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id: ebl-128
author: Kawa, Nicholas C.
title: Na Primeira Margem do Rio: Território e Ecologia do Povo Xavante de Wedezé
date: 2014-03-29
words: 1056
flesch: 46
summary: Book Review of Na Primeira Margem do Rio:Território e Ecologia do Povo Xavante de Wedezé 40 Book Review Chapter two provides a basic background on scholarly work on the Xavante language and social structure. Perhaps we can hope for a future book on Xavante ethnobiology, which would surely be of great value to all.
keywords: book; wedezé; xavante
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id: ebl-13
author: Contreras, Diana Rocío Carvajal
title: Wild Cultures: A Comparison between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures
date: 2013-07-09
words: 1341
flesch: 42
summary: This approach has the potential to further enrich our understanding of chimpanzee cultural diversity and facilitates comparison with human culture. He suggests that successive generations may socially In Wild Cultures: A Comparison between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures Christophe Boesch, professor and director of the department of primatology at Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, employees a comparative ethnographic approach to discuss the controversial topic of animal culture in apes and its diversity in comparison to human culture.
keywords: boesch; chimpanzees; culture; humans
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id: ebl-1350
author: Ludwig, David
title: Does Cognition Still Matter in Ethnobiology?
date: 2018-11-01
words: 4362
flesch: 34
summary: For example, shifting attitudes toward cognitive factors in ethnobiology are closely entangled with the changing relationship between anthropology and the cognitive sciences. And indeed, there is an alternative way of thinking about the role of cognition in ethnobiology that recognizes the value of disciplinary specialization but also the relevance of investigating the entanglement of cognitive factors and wider dynamics in socio-ecological systems.
keywords: anthropology; atran; cognition; ethnobiology; factors; medin; perspectives; research; sciences
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id: ebl-1352
author: Carvajal Contreras, Diana Rocío
title: Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas. By Stephen C. Jett. 2017. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 508 pp.
date: 2018-10-10
words: 1585
flesch: 42
summary: Diverse interactions between humans involve adaptation to the environment and over time, human groups are interwoven with others in increasingly complex interactions that imply acceptance or rejection of artifacts, ideas, and technologies in unpredictable ways, which set diverse cultural trajectories (Bentley and Maschner 2007). On the other, he points out the problems to evaluate the existence or the extent of contacts between human groups of both hemispheres, which is due to lack of a characterization of what objects and practices are diagnostic to identify these exchanges and the implications of those exchanges to understand cultural evolution.
keywords: contacts; cultural; groups; jett
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id: ebl-1365
author: Gagnon, Terese
title: Vanilla Landscapes: Meaning, Memory, and the Cultivation of Place in Madagascar. By Sarah R. Osterhoudt. 2017. NYBG Press, Bronx, NY. 180 pp.
date: 2018-10-04
words: 1135
flesch: 50
summary: This is achieved through countless hours spent with consultants in agroforestry fields and in other locations, listening to the stories evoked by aspects of the landscape such as the life event that a particular tree marks or the legacies of colonialism and resistance recalled by the rocks on a certain beach. This work provides impressively rich data and grounded insights about the diverse trees and plants grown in agroforestry fields, as well as about human social life and history in the area.
keywords: agroforestry; osterhoudt; vanilla
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id: ebl-1371
author: Levin, Maureece J.
title: Tangatatau Rockshelter: The Evolution of an Eastern Polynesian Socio-Ecosystem. Edited by Patrick Vinton Kirch. 2017. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles. 326 pp.
date: 2018-10-05
words: 1071
flesch: 45
summary: The dating of human settlement of Mangaia has been a point of contention in the past. Notably, older volcanic islands tend to have lower levels of soil nutrients, which has contributed to the vulnerability of Mangaia’s ecosystems.
keywords: archaeology; kirch; mangaia
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id: ebl-1374
author: Franco, F. Merlin
title: Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia. By Cynthia T. Fowler. 2016. Lexington Books, Lanham. 137 pp.
date: 2018-12-09
words: 1273
flesch: 54
summary: Like Hoskins (1993), Fowler’s work also recognizes the importance of seaworms in the Kodi lunar calendar and the institution of calendar keepers (seaworm priests). Fowler answers her own question by employing what she calls a “manipulation of perspectives” to promote an understanding of biosocial beings from the perspectives of seaworms, their worshippers, the celestial bodies, and human bodies.
keywords: fowler; human; kodi; moon; seaworms
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id: ebl-1380
author: Anderson, Eugene N.
title: Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws. By Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace. Foreword by Bonnie Leonard. 2017. McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, Canada. 588 pp.
date: 2018-09-04
words: 1506
flesch: 66
summary: Their work in the cause of preserving and propagating Secwépemc culture has been tireless, effective, and heroic. It is also a long and detailed demonstration of the value of Secwépemc culture and the need to preserve that culture and the land and resource base that sustains it.
keywords: anderson; ignace; land; river; secwépemc; university
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id: ebl-1384
author: Whitney, Cory W.
title: Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa. By Kathryn M. de Luna. 2016. Yale University Press, New Haven. 332 pp.
date: 2018-12-24
words: 829
flesch: 44
summary: De Luna pieces together a rich historical narrative of Botatwe-speaking people and their linguistic predecessors, specifically the way they spoke about society, work, each other, and their role in hunting, fishing, wild-collection, and agriculture. Perhaps there are lessons for modern society from these ancient stories.
keywords: food; luna
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item: #28 of 189
id: ebl-139
author: Miller, Naomi F.
title: Plants and Humans in the Near East and the Caucasus: Ancient and Traditional Uses of Plants as Food and Medicine, a Diachronic Ethnobotanical Review
date: 2014-02-10
words: 936
flesch: 51
summary: Published: February 10, 2014 © 2014 Society of Ethnobiology 18 Book Review anists is the sheer number of species included, the data for plant use in the Caucasus, and the archaeobo- tanical information collected from sometimes hard-to -find sources. Of direct im- portance to non archaeobotanists, the authors provide a brief summary of the nature of the physical and textual evidence for ancient plant use (vol. 1, pp.
keywords: information; plants; vol; volume
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id: ebl-1394
author: Pierotti, Raymond
title: World Views and the Concept of “Traditional”
date: 2018-11-28
words: 3798
flesch: 48
summary: Most scholars are somewhat familiar with the basic dynamics concerning conflicts of this nature, and may find it surprising that I include controversies over treaty rights invoked by Indigenous peoples as fundamentally similar in structure to these debates among EuroAmericans. My reasoning is that in cases involving treaty rights, it is often argued that, because they have acculturated to some degree with EuroAmerican values and ways of life, that Indigenous peoples are no longer employing traditional methods of hunting, fishing, gathering, and as such their established treaty rights should no longer be applicable.
keywords: 2018; change; concepts; cultures; knowledge; peoples; pierotti; thinking; world
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id: ebl-14
author: Narchi, Nemer E.
title: Bedouin Ethnobotany: Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World
date: 2013-06-24
words: 1088
flesch: 45
summary: What could be called the cultural domain of ludic plants is not very large, but is markedly diverse as it encompasses plant collections, sources of pigments for young girls, and, the one I liked the most because it reflects the incisive nature of play, Farsetta aegyptia Turra Brassicaceae, which is used as “itching pow- der.” I found chapter 3, a section on stars, land, and plants, to be one of the best parts of the book, as it situates the reader inside a nomadic expedition, whose success depends on the members’ abilities to know, recognize, and anticipate the sprouting and blooming of desert vegetation throughout their territories.
keywords: bedouin; book; chapter; plants
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id: ebl-1411
author: Coimbra, Carlos E. A.; Welch, James R.
title: Enciclopédia dos Alimentos Yanomami (Sanöma): Cogumelos. Edited by R. M. Apiamö, J. Autuori, N. K. Ishikawa, M. S. Martins, N. Menolli Jr., C. Sanuma, L. R. Sanuma, M. Sanuma, O. I. Sanuma, & K. Tokimoto. 2016. Instituto Socioambiental, São Paulo. 108 pp.
date: 2018-12-09
words: 1664
flesch: 43
summary: These Sanöma fungi were identified with such taxonomic precision through the efforts of This is the second book in a series published by the Instituto Socioambiental that aims to be a comprehensive encyclopedia of Sanöma Yanomami foods. This way non-Indigenous people will learn, gain wisdom.
keywords: book; ethnobiology; fungi; mushrooms; prance; sanuma; yanomami
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id: ebl-1427
author: Ortega-Meza, Daniela; Pulido-Silva, María Teresa; Costa de Arruda, Joari; da Silva, Carolina Joana
title: Ethnobotanical Study of the Mexican Laurel in El Chico National Park, Mexico: A Quantitative Perspective
date: 2019-04-15
words: 9788
flesch: 68
summary: The use most mentioned was seasoning (95%); 53% mentioned cultural uses, 42% mentioned medicinal uses, and only 2% of those interviewed mentioned crafts. The second break is between the use of the laurel in foods based on tomato sauce (0.364), fish (0.351), pasta (0.296), and chicken broth (0.265), suggesting that these are also important uses.
keywords: e c; e d; e e; e n; e s; e t; h e; m e; n d; n s; n t; o n; p e; u e; uses; v e
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id: ebl-144
author: Hofman, Courtney; Rick, Torben
title: The Dogs of CA-SRI-2: Osteometry of Canis familiaris from Santa Rosa Island, California
date: 2014-05-22
words: 5814
flesch: 57
summary: Although researchers have long been interested in archaeological dog remains from California (e.g., Allen 1920), including recent genetic analysis (Byrd et al. 2013), limited osteometric data are available for California dogs (see Bartelle et al. 2010; Langenwalter 1986, 2005; Vellanoweth et al. 2008). Continued osteometric analyses are needed for the Channel Islands and broader California Coast to help better understand the morphology and evolution of Channel Island dogs.
keywords: breadth; california; cf1; channel; cranial; dogs; island; length; rick; santa
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id: ebl-1474
author: Mech, L. David
title: Do Indigenous American Peoples’ Stories Inform the Study of Dog Domestication?
date: 2019-09-01
words: 4826
flesch: 66
summary: Reasons for Skepticism Thus, as a biologist who has studied wolf biology, behavior, interactions with humans, and conservation for 60 years, it is hard for me to understand how wolves could have been so unafraid and friendly toward humans and vice versa during the period and in the region covered by Fogg et al. (2015). The methods that wolves use to hunt vary considerably depending on type of prey, habitat, and season, but most wolf hunts are failures and most successful hunts depend greatly on wolves running down their prey at speeds of up to 56 km/hr (Mech 1970;
keywords: et al; fogg; humans; mech; pierotti; stories; wolf; wolves
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id: ebl-1481
author: Flachs, Andrew; Orkin, Joseph D.
title: Fermentation and the Ethnobiology of Microbial Entanglement
date: 2019-07-18
words: 2998
flesch: 37
summary: For example, human microbial ecologies change rapidly in response to diet and local environmental exposure, as shown by immigrants to the US whose gut microbiomes come to resemble lifetime residents (Vangay et al. 2018). In this short topical review, we discuss three key themes in the current research around fermentation relevant to ethnobiologists: neo-cultural ecology, which understands landscapes and the human body itself as microbial ecologies shaped by cultural practices; Fermenta on and the Ethnobiology of Microbial Entanglement Andrew Flachs 1 * and Joseph D. Orkin 2 1 Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafaye e, USA. 2 Ins tut de Biologia Evolu va, CSIC‐Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
keywords: 2015; ecology; ethnobiology; fermentation; food; microbes; microbial
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id: ebl-1586
author: Da Silva, Greiciane Amorim; Poscai, Aline Nayara; Casas, André Luis da Silva
title: Injuries Caused by Freshwater Stingrays in the Western Amazon: Folk Medicine and Beliefs
date: 2020-05-11
words: 7048
flesch: 58
summary: Revista Brasileira de Engenharia de Pesca 5:13–22. Injuries Caused by Freshwater Stingrays in the Western Amazon: Folk Medicine and Beliefs da Silva et al. 2020.
keywords: accidents; brazil; et al; freshwater; haddad; injuries; neto; plants; silva; species; stingrays; use
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id: ebl-16
author: Anderson, E. N.
title: The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal
date: 2013-03-10
words: 941
flesch: 63
summary: It is, in fact, something of an ethnobiology, or ethnopaleontology, of the world of conodont studies. Whole schools of conodont studies appeared, with their journals and learned volumes, and “conodontology” became a The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal Simon J. Knell.
keywords: animal; conodont; teeth
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id: ebl-1604
author: Hooper, David A.
title: The Winged: An Upper Missouri River Ethno-ornithology. By Kaitlyn Moore Chandler, Wendi Field Murray, María Nieves Zedeño, Samrat Miller Clements, and Robert James. 2017. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 129 pp.
date: 2019-08-06
words: 1123
flesch: 54
summary: A clear example of how bird behavior conveys messages is how, for the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara, spring migration of water fowl, specifically Canada Goose (Branta canadensis), indicated when to plant, which reflects a correlation between spring migration and favorable conditions for successful agriculture. For example, in the section concerning bird qualities and horticulture, the authors write that The term ‘blackbird’ probably refers to a host of different species that generally resemble one another, such as the Brewer’s Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus), the Common Grackle (Quisalus quiscula), and the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater).
keywords: authors; birds; ethnobiology; missouri
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id: ebl-1605
author: Jernigan, Kevin; Belichenko, Olga; Kolosova, Valeria; Orr, Darlene; Pupynina, Maria
title: Gathering “Mouse Roots,” Among the Naukan and Chukchi of the Russian Far East
date: 2019-12-14
words: 5330
flesch: 59
summary: In contrast, the neighboring Central Alaskan Yup’ik often eat mouse roots cooked in soup, or mixed with sugar and oil or animal fat in a dish called akutaq (Jernigan et al. 2015). These designations Figure 2 High-ground tundra where people search for “mouse roots,” with the village of Neshkan in the background.
keywords: 2015; arctic; chukchi; et al; ethnobiology; gathering; jernigan; mouse; naukan; participants; people; research; roots; species
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id: ebl-1606
author: Stiegler, Christopher D.
title: Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability. Edited by Melissa K. Nelson and Dan Shilling. 2018. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY. 276 pp.
date: 2019-12-04
words: 1238
flesch: 32
summary: Knowledges, like genes, are transmitted from generation to generation, and knowledges which promote human survivability are selected for through the generations creating systems of information that, while not scientifically rigorous, are every bit as ecologically informative. Ecological knowledge guides sustainable behaviors and outcomes within human cultures and promotes human survivability.
keywords: chapter; knowledge; sustainability
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id: ebl-1614
author: Gutiérrez Alonso, Adrian; Olson, Elizabeth Anne; Cevallos Espinosa, Judith; Rosales Adame, Jesús Juan
title: Medicinal Plants of Tecopatlán, Jalisco, Mexico: Description of the Uses and Environmental Availability
date: 2020-09-29
words: 4744
flesch: 49
summary: Furthermore, we found that individuals held a considerable amount of medicinal plant knowledge when compared to prior studies in this community and region (Benz et al. 2000). The data reported by De Niz (1989) and Paredes- Flores and colleagues (2007) indicated the household garden as the source of the largest proportion of medicinal plants species.
keywords: community; ejido; ethnobiology; gutiérrez; knowledge; landscape; mexico; plants; research; species; tecopatlán; tek; use
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id: ebl-1624
author: Forth, Gregory
title: Bad Mothers and Strange Offspring: Images of Scrubfowl and Sea Turtles in Eastern Indonesia
date: 2020-12-04
words: 4549
flesch: 57
summary: Bound up with their connection with cockatoos and parrots, and more specifically the belief that sea turtle eggs can give rise both to these birds and to other similarly pestilential creatures, the rites in question, mostly of a magical nature, are performed to lend protection to ripening crops. Why oviparous reptiles of other kinds might hatch from turtle eggs may seem relatively straightforward, but the birds require more attention.
keywords: animals; birds; creatures; eggs; flores; nage; scrubfowl; sea; turtles
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id: ebl-1636
author: Anderson, Eugene N.
title: Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat. By Robert N. Spengler III. 2019. University of California Press, Berkeley. 392 pp.
date: 2019-12-04
words: 1121
flesch: 67
summary: Ethnobiology Letters 10(1):109–110 109 Reviews Perspectives from Gene Anderson’s bookshelf in eastern Europe and much of central Asia throughout early history. Foxtail millet never amounted to much in central Asia; it needs China’s hotter, wetter climate.
keywords: asia; central; fruit; trees
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id: ebl-1640
author: Pierotti, Raymond
title: Learning about Extraordinary Beings: Native Stories and Real Birds
date: 2020-12-04
words: 4933
flesch: 62
summary: I also thank Violet Cordova (Apache) and Niigaan Sinclair (Anishinaabe) for providing wonderful accounts of important stories. This concept seems to have been intended as a mild reprimand, because Trickster stories are often told to show how it is proper to live (or not live), as with the discussion about death and reincarnation.
keywords: birds; humans; new; peoples; pierotti; press; ravens; species; stories; story; traditions; university
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id: ebl-1644
author: Ávila-Nájera, Dulce María; Tigar, Barbara J.; Zavala-Sánchez, Zaira; Zetina-Cordoba, Pedro; Serna-Lagunes, Ricardo
title: A Quantitative Method for Evaluating Contemporary Cultural Uses of Birds: A Case Study from Mexico
date: 2020-12-04
words: 6265
flesch: 59
summary: i LC 2 2 0.78 Trogon collaris P LC 3 4 1.23 CORACIIFORMES Momotidae Momotus mexicanus Ortalis leucogastra P LC 2 2 0.60 Penelope purpurascens E LC 7 27 6.25 Penelopina nigra E VU 3 4 1.12 Oreophasis derbianus E EN 3 3 0.99
keywords: birds; communications; conservation; cvi; cvis; et al; ethnobiology; letters; mexico; number; nájera; page; records; research; species; status; uses; ávila
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id: ebl-1645
author: Chambers, Jaime
title: What Drives Illegal Hunting with Dogs? Traditional Practice in Contemporary South Africa
date: 2020-05-11
words: 2506
flesch: 55
summary: What Drives Illegal Hunting with Dogs? Illegal hunting with dogs occurs in a context of systematic removal of hunting rights.
keywords: africa; conservation; dogs; history; hunting; natal; rural; south
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id: ebl-1648
author: Barman, Purnima Devi; Sharma, D. K.; Cockrem, John F.; Malakar, Mamani; Kakati, Bibekananda; Melvin, Tracy
title: Saving the Greater Adjutant Stork by Changing Perceptions and Linking to Assamese Traditions in India
date: 2020-12-04
words: 5960
flesch: 57
summary: Community based organizations need to be involved to sustain conservation activities for this Figure 4 Number of successful Greater Adjutant Stork nests in Dadara, Pasariya, and Singimari villages in Assam. Figure 3 A cultural procession for stork conservation.
keywords: adjutant; assam; birds; colony; conservation; india; nests; people; program; storks; trees; villages; women
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id: ebl-1654
author: Friday, Colleen; Scasta, John Derek
title: Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Ethnobotany for Wind River Reservation Rangelands
date: 2020-05-11
words: 9355
flesch: 66
summary: Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Ethnobotany for Wind River Reservation Rangelands Friday and Scasta. 2020. Some plants had multiple Arapaho names such as common yarrow (Achillea millefolium; No’outihi’and Nonooke’ei- nou’u), bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva; Neniicisoxu’oo’ Wooxcoo’), and bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi; Noh’uwunobiise’ Noh’uwuno) (Campbell n.d.; Cowell 2004).
keywords: b e; e d; e e; e n; e s; m e; m o; n d; n g; n k; n n; n o; n t; o e; o o; o u; o w; p e; u n; w n; y e
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id: ebl-1656
author: Flachs, Andrew; Olson, Elizabeth A.; Marston, John M.; Gillreath-Brown, Andrew
title: Mentoring is an Intellectual Pillar of Ethnobiology
date: 2019-12-04
words: 3151
flesch: 40
summary: To do ethnobiology requires field research, respectful exchanges of knowledge, team-based collaboration, and, above all, careful mentoring. Because ethnobiology is inherently interdisciplinary, field research teams share training and expertise, and the resulting academic writing shares credit and authorship.
keywords: 2019; conduct; ethnobiology; field; members; mentors; research; society; students
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id: ebl-1662
author: Loiselle, Hope
title: Humans, Dolphins, and Porpoises: Investigations at the Par-Tee Site, Seaside, Oregon, AD 100–800
date: 2020-08-14
words: 5095
flesch: 57
summary: The quantity of small cetacean bone is unlikely to be the result of only acquiring stranded individuals. Instead, the quantity of small cetacean bone provides the most evidence for hunting over scavenging.
keywords: analysis; cetacean; dolphin; hunting; oregon; par; porpoise; remains; site; species; tee
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id: ebl-167
author: Benessaiah, Nejm
title: An Interview with Roy Ellen
date: 2014-03-20
words: 5831
flesch: 66
summary: Roy: I suppose you have to get used to a new environment, and Nuaulu villages are different to those of other people on Seram. An Interview with Roy Ellen 31 Interview reassuring me as I fumbled around, making my own unique but comparable mistakes among the insights I gleaned.
keywords: anthropology; ellen; forest; kind; nejm; nuaulu; roy; time; village; work
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id: ebl-1673
author: Torres-Martínez, Guadalupe; López Binnqüist , Citlalli; Silva Rivera , Evodia; Velázquez-Rosas, Noe
title: Traditional use of Dasylirion acrotrichum in the Construction of Floral Arches for the Festival of San Jerónimo, in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico
date: 2020-09-15
words: 6284
flesch: 52
summary: Abstract In Mexico, floral arches are commonly constructed as offerings in religious festivals. The objective of this study was to document the traditional management of Dasylirion acrotrichum (cucharilla) as used in the construction of floral arches during a festival of great religious and community significance held every year in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico.
keywords: acrotrichum; arch; arches; coatepec; collection; construction; extraction; faeneros; festival; floral; martínez; mayordomo; méxico; plants; torres; veracruz
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id: ebl-1678
author: Lins Neto, Ernani Machado de Freitas; Vieira dos Santos, Silvana; Soares Ferreira Júnior, Washington
title: Does Climatic Seasonality of the Caatinga Influence the Composition of the Free lists of Medicinal Plants? A Case Study
date: 2021-03-15
words: 6545
flesch: 56
summary: By compiling all lists of medicinal plants produced by community residents, it is possible to Does Climatic Seasonality of the Caatinga Influence the Composition of the Free lists of Medicinal Plants? To this end, we aim to investigate the influence of climatic seasonality of the Caatinga ecosystem on the composition of free lists of medicinal plants provided by people from a rural community located in the northeast region of Brazil.
keywords: data; et al; lists; people; periods; plants; rainy; salience; season; species; use; values
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id: ebl-1682
author: Gomes, Noah
title: Reclaiming Native Hawaiian Knowledge Represented in Bird Taxonomies
date: 2020-12-04
words: 8210
flesch: 57
summary: Ibarra et al. (2020:90, 95) did an extensive study of the use of onomatopoeia in bird names around the world. They found that the widespread use of onomatopoeia in bird names may allow people in many cultures to “see” birds that normally would not be readily physically observable.
keywords: birds; categories; category; ethnobiology; folk; hawaiian; hawaiʻi; kanaka; malo; manu; maoli; names; naming; nomenclature; perkins; species; taxonomies; taxonomy; teauotalani
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id: ebl-1686
author: Djidohokpin, Gildas; Sossoukpè, Edmond; Adandé, Richard ; Voudounnou , Juste V.; Fiogbé, Emile D.; Haour, Anne
title: Ethnoichthyology of Fishing Communities in the Lower Valley of Ouémé in Benin, West Africa
date: 2020-10-16
words: 7117
flesch: 56
summary: Ethnobiology Letters 11(1):137–151 141 Data, Methods & Taxonomies Table 3 Origins of vernacular names for fish species used for interviews. Fishing gear appears primarily linked to the size of the target species and the seasons, although a more focused study in future would allow an exploration of whether there is also any particular association with specific fish species.
keywords: benin; data; djidohokpin; et al; ethnobiology; fish; fisheries; fishers; fishing; knowledge; methods; ouémé; river; species; study
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id: ebl-1688
author: Welch, James R.
title: A’uwẽ (Xavante) Hunting Calls: A Vocal Repertoire for Ethnozoological Communication and Coordination in the Brazilian Cerrado
date: 2020-06-04
words: 4369
flesch: 52
summary: After introducing the topic and context, I begin with a presentation of five ethnozoological calls Tsidowi demonstrated, which he considered the complete repertoire of A’uwẽ hunting calls. Similar to hunting horn calls and Indigenous hunting whistling, A’uwẽ hunting calls are a stylized expression following established vocal conventions to communicate complex information over long distances between hunters in need of or able to provide assistance.
keywords: animal; a’uwẽ; calls; ethnobiology; fire; game; group; hunters; hunting; hunts; welch
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id: ebl-1689
author: Sault, Nicole
title: Bird Stories from Latin America: Lessons on Change and Adaptation
date: 2020-12-04
words: 6509
flesch: 64
summary: What is altered when bird stories are no longer told and shared? For the Embera of Panama (Kane 2015:35), bird songs and calls are located between the invisible and the human worlds as they inform people of new birth and impending death.
keywords: 2019; america; birds; bribri; condors; costa; cultural; ethnobiology; las; letters; los; oral; people; peru; rica; sault; stories; story; voices; vultures
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id: ebl-169
author: Castle, Lisa Marie; Leopold, Susan; Craft, Rachel; Kindscher, Kelly
title: Ranking Tool Created for Medicinal Plants at Risk of Being Overharvested in the Wild
date: 2014-05-30
words: 7311
flesch: 62
summary: Many other agencies have created lists: the federal Endangered Species Act works to protect the very rarest of species; NatureServe provides a standard ranking system used by all US States to score plant species based on rarity and abundance; and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) regulates international trade in threatened species. Effect of Harvest on Individuals section This group of questions will produce higher scores for plant species that are root harvested rather than those for which the leaves are used.
keywords: demand; habitat; harvest; list; ons; plant; popula; populations; range; risk; sandalwood; score; species; tool; united; wild
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id: ebl-17
author: Pierotti, Ray
title: Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters: Integrating Archaeology and Ecology of the Northeast Pacific
date: 2013-03-07
words: 3672
flesch: 46
summary: This provides little support for the Krechian “tragedy of the commons” argued by Hildebrandt, in fact Hildebrandt’s own chapter (9) demonstrates that northern fur seal populations did not decline during this period. At ice maxima this would have prevented northern fur seal from breeding on the Pribilof Islands, which are their major breeding colonies today, because they would have been ice choked, even in midsummer, during the Neoglacial period (4700- 2500 ybp).
keywords: chapter; exploitation; fur; northern; otters; populations; sea; seal; species
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id: ebl-1701
author: Svanberg, Ingvar; Ståhlberg, Sabira
title: Fisher-foragers Amidst the Reeds: Loptuq Perception of Waterscapes in the Lower Tarim Area
date: 2020-10-06
words: 6123
flesch: 66
summary: During his first expedition in 1896, Hedin explored the Lower Tarim River region, lived in Loptuq reed huts, and “spoke their own language, eating the food they ate, and was almost as poor as themselves” (Hedin 1898b:898). We examine Loptuq perceptions of their waterscape environment through naming and use of reed, highlighting through this example the importance of linguistic materials in ethnobiology for understanding local knowledge in a historical context.
keywords: asia; central; environment; fish; fishing; hedin; jarring; knowledge; lake; loptuq; place; reed; river; ståhlberg; svanberg; tarim; toponyms
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id: ebl-1706
author: Jose Ramon Becerra Vera
title: Possibilities for Multispecies Approaches in Coffee Landscapes
date: 2021-11-18
words: 2201
flesch: 42
summary: Using co-constitutions as a key concept, I highlight multispecies studies into agrarian worlds, review ethnobiological studies around coffee, and suggest potential research areas. Multispecies studies of coffee can provide insight into these interlinked elements and relationships that together form ecological landscapes.
keywords: 2019; approaches; coffee; ethnobiology; humans; multispecies; studies
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id: ebl-1716
author: Kotašková, Eva
title: Beyond Wild and Tame: Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape. By Alex C. Oehler. 2020. Berghahn Books, New York, NY. 214 pp.
date: 2020-09-25
words: 1089
flesch: 47
summary: Together with comprehensive archival research on Soiot history, archaeology and previous (scarce) ethnographic work, Oehler gives a complex account of Soiot encounters with various animals. In Soiot perspective, the “domestic” is an outcome of negotiation within the environment, rather than an outcome of solely human actions.
keywords: animals; chapter; relations
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id: ebl-1727
author: French, Katherine E.
title: Crafting Wounaan Landscapes: Identity, Art, and Environmental Governance in Panama's Darién. By Julie Velásquez Runk. 2017. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 313 pp.
date: 2021-02-01
words: 1116
flesch: 49
summary: Velásquez Runk’s book touches upon a topic not usually covered in conservation: the role of indigenous ontologies in setting conservation priorities and managing landscapes with both local and global importance. Velásquez Runk demonstrates that integrating indigenous ontologies can help direct which resources are protected and how in a manner that benefits local communities as well as conservationists.
keywords: conservation; runk; velásquez; wounaan
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id: ebl-1730
author: Sault, Nicole
title: Avian Voices, Avian Silences: Learning By Listening to Birds
date: 2020-12-04
words: 2150
flesch: 53
summary: This contemporary research shines a light on how bird taxonomies were structured and the cultural understandings underlying the names given to birds. Birds communicate through their own voices and through metaphors—providing ways for humans to talk about both the behavior of birds and also people who share the qualities of particular birds, such as the Orange-footed scrubfowl (Megapodius reinwardt).
keywords: 2020; birds; ethnobiology; gomes; people; stories; voices
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id: ebl-1745
author: Anderson, Eugene N.
title: Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. By Rebecca Earle. 2020. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 306 pp.
date: 2021-03-15
words: 1931
flesch: 67
summary: This involved early confusion with sweet potatoes and Jerusalem artichokes. Meanwhile, the British Empire promoted potato- growing from New Zealand (where the Maori already had sweet potatoes in abundance) to India and to America.
keywords: anderson; earle; history; new; potato; potatoes
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id: ebl-1753
author: Veras, Aurea Palloma Bezerra Barbosa; Guion de Almeida, Cauê; Lima de Moraes, Lorena; Fernandes, Alexandre M.
title: Ethnoornithology and Bird Conservation in Afro-descendant Communities in the Brazilian Caatinga
date: 2022-01-29
words: 11843
flesch: 68
summary: Ethnobiology Letters 13(1):1-15 5 Research Communications T a b le 2 L is t o f b ir d s p e ci e s re co rd e d d u ri n g t h e i n te rv ie w s in t h e q u il o m b o la c o m m u n iti e s n e a r th e S e rr a d o G iz r e se rv e . (c o n ti n u e d o n n e xt p a g e ) S c ie n ti fi c N a m e C o m m o n N a m e i n S e rr a d o G iz N e s ti n g D ie t T in a m if o rm e s T in a m id a e C ry p tu re ll u s n o c ti v a g u s z a b e le 1 ,2 Z a b e lê C ry p tu re ll u s p a rv ir o s tr is 3 ,4 ,6 L a m b ú -d e -c a p o e ir a , la m b ú -d o -p é - v e rm e lh o O n t h e g ro u n d G ra s s a n d l e g u m e s e e d s C ry p tu re ll u s t a ta u p a 3 ,4 ,6 L a m b ú -d o -p é -r o x o O n t h e g ro u n d G ra s s a n d l e g u m e s e e d s R h y n c h o tu s r u fe s c e n s c a ti n g a e 1 P e rd iz N o th u ra b o ra q u ir a 6 C o d o rn iz O n t h e g ro u n d E u p h o rb ia c e a e , A n a c a rd ia c e a e , B u rs e ra - c e a e a n d P o a c e a e s e e d s N o th u ra m a c u lo s a 6 C o d o rn a O n t h e g ro u n d A n s e ri fo rm e s A n a ti d a e D e n d ro c y g n a v id u a ta M a rr e c o G a ll if o rm e s C ra c id a e P e n e lo p e s u p e rc il ia ri s a la g o e n s is 2 J a c u p e m b a F ru it s ( R h a m n a c e a e , B ig n o n ia c e a e , M y r- ta c e a e ), s e e d s ( P o a c e a e ), l ia n a f lo w e r P e n e lo p e j a c u c a c a 1 ,2 ,3 ,6 J a c u F ru it s ( R h a m n a c e a e , B ig n o n ia c e a e , M y r- ta c e a e ), s e e d s ( P o a c e a e ), l ia n a f lo w e r P o d ic ip e d if o rm e s P o d ic ip e d id a e T a c h y b a p tu s d o m in ic u s 7 M e rg u lh ã o In s e c ts C o lu m b if o rm e s C o lu m b id a e P a ta g io e n a s p ic a z u ro 3 ,7 A s a -b ra n c a G ra s s s e e d C o lu m b in a m in u ta 3 ,4 ,6 ,7 R o li n h a -c a fo fa S e e d s C o lu m b in a t a lp a c o ti 3 ,4 ,6 R o li n h a -r o x a , ro li n h a -c a ld o -d e -f e ij ã o , ro li n h a -v e rm e lh a B ra n c h e s a n d g ra s s P o a c e a e , F a b a c e a e , E u p h o rb ia c e a e a n d C o n v o lv u la c e a e s e e d s a n d i n s e c ts C o lu m b in a s q u a m m a ta 3 ,4 ,6 R o li n h a -f o g o -p a g ô , ro li n h a -c a s c a v e l C o lu m b in a p ic u i3 ,6 R o li n h a -b ra n c a S ta lk s o f g ra s s a n d c o tt o n E u p h o rb ia c e a e a n d F a b a c e a e s e e d s C la ra v is p re ti o s a 3 ,4 ,6 ,7 R o li n h a -a z u l L e p to ti la v e rr e a u x i3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ,7 J u ri ti O n t h e g ro u n d F a b a c e a e , E u p h o rb ia c e a e , C o n v o lv u - la c e a e , A n a c a rd ia c e a e , B u rs e ra c e a e a n d P o a c e a e s e e d s Z e n a id a a u ri c u la ta 3 ,7 R ib a ç ã , re b a ç ã , a rr ib a ç ã O n t h e g ro u n d F a b a c e a e a n d E u p h o rb ia c e a e s e e d s a n d C a c ta c e a e f ru it s 1 E n d e m ic t o t h e C a a ti n g a 2 T h re a te n e d w it h e xti n cti o n 3 F o rm s fl o ck s 4 In p a ir s 5 S o li ta ry 6 A tt ra ct a tt e n ti o n f o r a p p e a ra n ce o r so n g 7 M ig ra to ry https://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjxjOD1p8vYAhWRSN8KHTXJC4sQFggrMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikiaves.com.br%2Fcodorna-do-nordeste&usg=AOvVaw0A3cENhArXSO7N9GAQsiPr Veras et al. 2022.
keywords: b e; c e; c o; c u; d s; e d; e e; e g; e s; e u; h e; m e; n c; n d; n e; n g; n h; n n; n s; o n; o s; o u; p e; p o; s c; s p; s s; u n; u s
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id: ebl-1755
author: Jacques, Guillaume; d'Alpoim Guedes, Jade; Zhang, Shuya
title: Yak Domestication: A Review of Linguistic, Archaeological, and Genetic Evidence
date: 2021-10-13
words: 6548
flesch: 61
summary: Below, we review the archaeological, genetic, and linguistic evidence for yak domestication. Archaeological Evidence for Yak Domestication Unfortunately, there is currently very little concrete evidence for yak domestication in the archaeological record.
keywords: cattle; domestication; et al; evidence; female; jacques; languages; plateau; rgyalrongic; taurine; terms; tibetan; yak; yaks; zhang
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id: ebl-1764
author: Menezes, Leandro; Ewerton, Alícia; Garcia, Amanda; Dominici, Susana; Fernandes, Fabiane; Campos, Lívia Flávia; Marinho, Lucas
title: The Flora of Azulejos in Maranhão, Brazil
date: 2021-10-08
words: 4631
flesch: 62
summary: B: Countries of origin of Maranhão azulejos that have phytomorphic elements in their illustrations. Our research provides a preliminary data base upon which future works can be based to propose new prints of Maranhão plants and create digital guides that link historical information with botanical identifications.
keywords: 2012; azulejos; brazil; elements; fig; flora; illustrations; luís; maranhão; phytomorphic; portugal; species; são
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id: ebl-1772
author: Delgado, Cesar; Mejía, Kember; Rasmussen, Claus; Romero, Rosa
title: Traditional Knowledge of Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in the Peruvian Amazon
date: 2023-03-08
words: 4952
flesch: 59
summary: Abstract This paper describes the traditional knowledge on the management of stingless bee colonies and the use of honey by Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities of the department of Loreto, in the Peruvian Amazon. We included only those families that had stingless bee colonies or those who said they kept stingless bees during the past ten years.
keywords: bees; communities; delgado; et al; ethnobiology; honey; melipona; rasmussen; research; species; stingless; use
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id: ebl-1774
author: Anderson, Eugene N.
title: The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming: Population, Food and Family. By James W. Wood. 2020. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 502 pp.
date: 2021-12-30
words: 3122
flesch: 60
summary: For one example, subsistence agriculture requires diversification of crops, for insurance and for nutrition, while market farming tends toward monocropping. The rest of the book brings subsistence farming models down to reality: the family farm and its individuals.
keywords: agriculture; anderson; farming; food; people; population; subsistence; wood
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id: ebl-18
author: Chen, Diana
title: Nature's Chemicals
date: 2013-02-20
words: 1087
flesch: 59
summary: Although penicillin is included in the book, many other NPs important to the pharmaceutical and health industries such as digitalis and echinacea are absent. The chapter begins with an overview of NPs in Economics and History and then stops to focus on specific NPs such as coffee, cocoa, and opium, and finishes up with NPs in a smattering of other areas such as sodas and per- fumes.
keywords: book; firn; nps
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id: ebl-1805
author: Thiel, Amanda M.; Quinlan, Marsha B.
title: Cymbopogon winterianus, Neurolaena lobata, and Ruta chalepensis—Recurring Herbal Remedies in Guatemalan Maya Q’eqchi’ Homegardens
date: 2022-10-17
words: 4554
flesch: 51
summary: ; Weller et al. 1997) and local medicinal plants are one of the most common home remedies (Adams and Hawkins 2007, Cosminsky 2016). Because consensus appears to develop over time (Stepp 2016), informant’s agreement on the uses of these three herbs likely indicates long-standing Q’eqchi’ and regional traditions of medicinal plant use (traditional ethnobotanical [or ecological] knowledge
keywords: chalepensis; guatemala; lobata; local; maya; medicinal; plants; q’eqchi; research; uses; winterianus
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id: ebl-1815
author: Kelso, Neal; Plunkett, Gregory; Dovo, Presley; Ramík, Dominik; Paul Vusqal, Charlie; Harrison, David; Balick, Michael
title: The Palolo Worm as a Cornerstone of Pacific Ecological Time-Reckoning
date: 2023-05-05
words: 7293
flesch: 64
summary: Stair’s (1847:18) first description of the cultural importance of palolo worms in Samoa suggests a detailed system for predicting their arrival: The natives are exceedingly fond of them, and calculate with great exactness the time of their appearance, which is looked forward to with great interest. He was buried in an enclosed space, but his blood flowed down into the sea and turned into palolo worms (known locally as udu).
keywords: appearance; calendar; ethnobiology; island; knowledge; language; moon; pacific; palolo; people; plants; raga; reckoning; research; systems; time; vanuatu; worm
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id: ebl-1819
author: Coelho, Keyton K. F. ; Rincon, Getulio ; Marques Bandeira , Arkley; Vargas Barbosa Filho, Márcio Luiz ; Wosnick, Natascha ; Maria Serra de Brito, Rafaela; Onodera Palmeira Nunes, Ana Rita ; Luiz Silva Nunes , Jorge
title: Fisher Ethnotaxonomy for Elasmobranchs Captured Along the Brazilian Amazon Coast
date: 2023-02-11
words: 10897
flesch: 59
summary: DOI:10.32360/acmar.v52i1.33408 Wosnick, N., Nunes, A. R. O. P., Feitosa, L. M., Coelho, K. K. F., Brito, R. M. S., Martins, A. P. B., Rincon, G., and Nunes, J. L. S. 2019. Finally, fisher knowledge regarding shark and ray names can contribute to basic information on elasmobranchs captured throughout the coast of Maranhão and species-specific recognition in fishing landing monitoring systems, generating subsidies for the development of conservation and management plans for these fishery resources.
keywords: body; brazil; brazilian; cação; coast; coelho; common; et al; ethnobiology; ethnotaxonomy; fishers; maranhão; names; raia; ray; research; shark; species; table
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id: ebl-1825
author: McGuire, Gina; Mawyer, Alexander
title: Cultivating the Unseen: Paʻakai and the Role of Practice in Coastal Care
date: 2023-05-31
words: 8744
flesch: 50
summary: We ask that conservation bodies directly promote and support cultural practices such as hāhāpaʻakai, limu provisioning, or offshore wai collection as valid ways of informing ecosystem- wellness and as ways that build community investment in their place-health. We identify the need for collaborative coastal management inclusive of cultural practices and understandings of coasts, making room for ancestral and contemporary knowledge transmission-based relationships in conservation while at the same time identifying that these ways of knowing often occur outside of state-sponsored conservation modalities.
keywords: areas; care; coastal; conservation; cultural; hawaiian; hawaiʻi; knowledge; management; marine; mawyer; mcguire; paʻakai; place; practices; practitioners; research; water
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id: ebl-1826
author: Keleman, Pieter-Jan; Padrão Temudo, Marina; Moutinho Sá, Rui
title: Rooted in the Mangrove Landscape: Children and their Ethnoichthyological Knowledge as Sentinels for Biodiversity Loss in Northern Guinea-Bissau
date: 2023-05-31
words: 5490
flesch: 47
summary: Our main research objective was to explore children’s knowledge of fish species linked to mangroves to better understand and anticipate their perceptions of, and potential participation in, sustainable use efforts inside the PNTC. Presented fish species with their abundance and whether they are fished by boys, as responded to by the key in- formants.
keywords: bissau; boys; children; conservation; diola; et al; ethnobiology; fish; fishing; girls; knowledge; letters; mangrove; research; species
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id: ebl-1830
author: Singleton, Benedict E.; Boyd Gillette, Maris
title: Mutiny on the Boundary? Examining ILK-Based Conservation Collaborations through the Lens of Rubbish Theory
date: 2023-05-31
words: 5959
flesch: 45
summary: Redrawing the boundaries of what counts as conservation knowledge in engagements between academic researchers and practitioners trained to “do conservation” according to western science traditions, on the one hand, and Indigenous peoples and local communities who possess knowledge generated in non-academic contexts, on the other, effects demarcations of expertise and so challenges existing social hierarchies. In other words, each of the case studies we discuss (re)defines what counts as conservation knowledge—e.g., what and which knowledge is valued and how durable it is—and thus enacts a social order, maintaining, reconfiguring, or eradicating different hierarchies of expertise and status.
keywords: conservation; durable; ethnobiology; hierarchies; ilk; issue; knowledge; rubbish; science; scientists; theory; thompson; western
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id: ebl-1831
author: Shebitz, Daniela J. ; Agnew, Lindsey Page; Kerns, Steven; Oviedo, Angela ; Ha, Juyoung
title: Let it Grow (Back): A Call for the Conservation of Secondary Forests as Medicinal Plant Habitat
date: 2023-05-31
words: 6508
flesch: 49
summary: We believe that by understanding the ecological and cultural importance of individual species, we can better understand the value of secondary forest ecosystems. However, a significant opportunity to strengthen conservation in this region is being overlooked at a great cost to the local community and environment: the protection of regenerating secondary forests.
keywords: biodiversity; communities; community; conservation; costa; deforestation; ecosystem; et al; forests; plants; rica; services; shebitz; species; tropical; use
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id: ebl-1832
author: Thomaz Sandroni, Laila
title: Conservation at Stake: Institutionalized Environmentalisms and Indigenous Knowledges About How to Protect the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
date: 2023-05-31
words: 7038
flesch: 44
summary: We apply a qualitative analysis to compare solutions to the shared problem of biodiversity degradation of the Atlantic Forest proposed by two different groups of people: the solutions developed by Tupinambá Indigenous people and the institutionalized western science-based environmentalism developed by state agencies and non-governmental organizations who work with conservation projects in southern Bahia. Thereafter, the debate on biodiversity conservation took a polarized form, stressing the role of local populations in conservation: one ‘side’ advocates for the restriction of access and circulation, and the other recommends community involvement as a solution to conflict (Holmes 2009).
keywords: areas; atlantic; bahia; biodiversity; conservation; forest; iesb; land; narrative; research; solutions; tupinambá
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id: ebl-1835
author: Gillette, Maris; Shebitz, Daniela; Singleton, Benedict
title: Doing Conservation Differently: Toward a Diverse Conservations Inventory
date: 2023-05-31
words: 5388
flesch: 41
summary: She scrutinizes discursive disputes about biodiversity conservation between state and non-governmental institutions, on the one hand, and the Tupinambá Indigenous people, on the other, arguing that conservation scientists and practitioners in this area must revise their practices to take power relations into account. By recognizing the value of heterogenous conservation knowledges, ethnobiolo- gists and other conservation scientists “change the world” by “changing our thinking,” performing into being new subjectivities and concomitantly new relationships and practices.
keywords: community; conservation; economies; et al; ethnobiology; gibson; graham; issue; knowledge; science
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id: ebl-1836
author: Bollettin, Paride; El-Hani, Charbel N.; Ludwig, David
title: The Challenges of Symmetrical Dialogue: Reflections on Collaborative Research in Northeast Brazil
date: 2023-05-31
words: 6046
flesch: 38
summary: Meanwhile, complementary studies comparing potential results from ethnograph- ically inspired and other methodological approaches, as well as the possibility of moving the collaboration further into academic writing (as another intermingled aspect of ethnography), could offer important results for developing adequate epistemological, ontological, ethical, and political strategies for supporting the participation, self-determination, and protagonism of local communities. This strategy has created some space for the communities to be heard, with limitations resulting from the fact that the local government is not strongly committed to including local knowledge and interests but are pushed by the researchers to do so.
keywords: bollettin; communities; community; conservation; fishing; knowledge; local; members; practices; project; research; researchers; university
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id: ebl-1840
author: Bosco, Samantha; Thomas, Bradley
title: The Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) Food Forest Project—Reconciliation in Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education through Cross-Cultural Agroforestry Demonstration
date: 2023-05-31
words: 8860
flesch: 50
summary: Haudenosaunee Food Sovereignty in a Nutshell Intercropped annual plants including maize (Zea mays), beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), squash (Curcubita pepo)— collectively referred to as the “Three Sisters”—as well as sunflower (Helianthus annuus) are foundational to Haudenosaunee food sovereignty as well as to the food sovereignty of their Iroquoian speaking neighbors in territories north of Haudenosaunee homelands (see Schillaci et al. 2017 for a spatiotem- poral review of Iroquoian languages) and their Anishinaabe neighbors in the Upper Great Lakes region. The project was a component of Bosco’s dissertation research about the past, present, and future contributions of temperature nut trees to Haudenosaunee food sovereignty and climate smart agriculture in New York state (Bosco 2022 forthcoming; Bosco and Thomas 2019).
keywords: agroforestry; bosco; community; education; ethnobiology; figure; food; forest; haudenosaunee; land; nation; new; nut; perspectives; project; research; sffp; skarù·ręʔ; sovereignty; thomas; trees; tuscarora; university
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id: ebl-1842
author: Jacques, Guillaume; d'Alpoim Guedes, Jade
title: Sichuan Peppercorn and the Birth of Numbing Spices in East Asia
date: 2023-04-03
words: 6960
flesch: 61
summary: For instance, Zanthoxylum bungeanum has (Red peppercorn 红花椒 hóng huājiāo) red pericarps and Zanthoxylum armatum (Green peppercorn 青花椒 qīng huājiāo) has green pericarps, deciduous and lanceolate leaves, and earlier flowering time as well as a distribution that is limited to Southwest China, which explains the latter. The Complex Genome and Adaptive Evolution of Polyploid Chinese Pepper (Zanthoxylum armatum and Zanthoxylum bungeanum).
keywords: china; chinese; d’alpoim; east; ethnobiology; etymon; evidence; guedes; jacques; languages; pepper; plant; research; rgyalrongic; sichuan; spicy; tibetan; zanthoxylum
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id: ebl-1855
author: Perkins, La' Portia J.; Coates, T. Adam; Hiers, J. Kevin; Fowler, Cynthia T.; Bigelow, Seth W.
title: Prescribed Fire Use Among Black Landowners in the Red Hills Region, USA
date: 2023-08-04
words: 8928
flesch: 67
summary: To increase understanding about Black landowner historic and current use of prescribed fire for land management in the Red Hills Region, formal and informal interviews were conducted from May through August 2019 with 21 Black landowners and tenants to document the perspectives and thoughts of Black landowners and tenants of southern Alabama, northern Florida, and southwestern Georgia. The interviews provide insight into the factors that limit Black prescribed fire use today: access to educational and financial resources, land legacy, and underrepresentation.
keywords: b u; black; c e; c o; e d; e p; e s; fire; h e; ic e; landowners; n d; n e; n n; n s; n ty; o n; o u; p u; u n; u rc
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id: ebl-187
author: Glover, Denise M.
title: Khawa Karpo: Tibetan Traditional Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation
date: 2014-05-30
words: 973
flesch: 46
summary: Other problems include the repeated use of pinyin romani- zation for Tibetan names (I am very aware of the difficulties of this in SW China especially but effort must be made to avoid this); the fact that the authors appear to have used Indian sources (and not Tibetan ones) to discuss the history of Tibetan medicine (use of the name Vairotsana for the historic figure that Tibetans call Yuthog Yonten Gonpo suggests this); and several statements about the state of Tibetan medicine in the People’s Republic of China seem simplistic and outdated: saying that traditional Tibetan medicine is recognized by the government only if from Lhasa does not acknowledge the contemporary central role of Tibetan medicine practice, teaching, research, and production in the Amdo (Qinghai) region and in Chamdo, two main hubs of activity in Tibetan medicine. Also essential is the discussion of local Tibetan knowledge, particularly although not exclusively from doctors of Tibetan medicine, in the context of conservation.
keywords: conservation; salick; tibetan
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id: ebl-19
author: Smith, Ian C.
title: Essay on the Geography of Plants
date: 2013-02-14
words: 829
flesch: 46
summary: Born from Dr. Jackson’s frustration as an English speaker trying to understand botanical details from Humboldt’s Essai and Tableau in the original French, this work grants the English reader of natural history and biogeography greater access to the ideas and writings of Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland. Essay on the Geography of Plants Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland. The biographical sketches and bibliograph- ical essay provide supplementary information for the reader looking for a comprehensive understanding of Alexander von Humboldt established himself as one of the fathers of modern day biogeography when he wrote his Essai sur la Géographie des Plantes and accom- panying Tableau Physique des Andes et Pays Voisins.
keywords: essay; humboldt; jackson
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id: ebl-20
author: Pazhoohi, Farid
title: Kinship in Action: Self and Group
date: 2013-02-14
words: 1153
flesch: 47
summary: Because of this constellation of concern, the authors tend to stray from their discussions of kinship structures and focus more on the economics. In the first chapter, Strathern and Stewart define kinship related concepts and highlight the importance of an individual’s relation within a group.
keywords: authors; chapter; kinship; marriage
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id: ebl-203
author: Brown, Cecil H.; Clement, Charles R.; Epps, Patience; Luedeling, Eike; Wichmann, Søren
title: The Paleobiolinguistics of the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
date: 2014-10-02
words: 5273
flesch: 60
summary: In addition to identifying proto-languages with common bean terms and the terms themselves, the tables report proto-languages for which these terms are “not reconstructable” (NR). P. polyanthus Greenman (year bean); P. vulgaris L. (common bean).
keywords: america; bean; brown; ethnobiology; languages; mexico; otomanguean; phaseolus; proto; vulgaris
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id: ebl-21
author: Glover, Denise
title: Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine
date: 2013-10-13
words: 1749
flesch: 45
summary: (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. Another section in Part III, titled “Commonly Used Herbal Formulas” provides ingredient information (arranged, again, by the disorders being treated and using Tibetan names with English common names) for 59 recipes; no infor- mation on measurements or proportions is given.
keywords: authors; medical; medicine; tibetan; use
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id: ebl-222
author: Quinlan, Marsha B.; Quinlan, Robert J.; Dira, Samuel
title: Sidama Agro-Pastoralism and Ethnobiological Classification of its Primary Plant, Enset (Ensete ventricosum)
date: 2014-10-02
words: 5221
flesch: 57
summary: Although there are five varieties of enset that are abundant across Sidama gardens (gantichcha [gantiča in IPA], midashsho Rather, we use Berlinian ethnobiological classification, ethnography of Sidama subsistence behavior, and widespread subsistence vocabulary to examine how Sidama generic elevation of enset occurs on the ground, or, more accurately, in the garden.
keywords: classification; enset; ethiopia; ethnobiology; folk; generic; hunn; plants; quinlan; sidama; university
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id: ebl-226
author: Kane, Stephanie C.
title: Bird Names and Folklore from the Emberá (Chocó) in Darién, Panamá
date: 2015-06-15
words: 28621
flesch: 76
summary: 38 Data, Methods & Taxonomies A p p e n d ix 1 : E m b e rá B ir d C la s s if ic a ti o n E m b e rá n a m e P la te /# E n g li sh c o m m o n n a m e S ci e n ti fi c n a m e ( cu rr e n t) Id e n ti fi ca ti o n s T o ta l á jo m b ʌ {n ẽ jõ m b ʌ} 2 /7 F a lc o n M ic ra st u r ru fi co ll is V ie il lo t F a lc o n id a e C 1 a m p a rr á -j o m b ʌ = a m p a rr á zé si d { n ẽ jõ m b ʌ} 3 /8 C a ra ca ra M il va g o c h im a ch im a V ie il lo t F a lc o n id a e I 1 a n sa b id á 1 0 /1 0 K in g fi sh e r M e g a ce ry le t o rq u a ta L in n a e u s A lc e d in id a e A B C D E F H I 8 1 0 /7 C h lo ro ce ry le a m a zo n a L a th a m A lc e d in id a e E H I 3 1 0 /9 C h lo ro ce ry le i n d a L in n a e u s A lc e d in id a e A C I 3 1 0 /1 1 C h lo ro ce ry le a m e ri ca n a G m e li n A lc e d in id a e C H I 3 1 0 /5 Ja ca m a r G a lb u la r u fi ca u d a C u vi e r G a lb u li d a e I 1 1 0 /6 Ja ca m e ro p s a u re a M u ll e r G a lb u li d a e I 1 1 0 /8 K in g fi sh e r C h lo ro ce ry le a e n e a P a ll a s A lc e d in id a e I 1 a n sa b id á -c h ik a ib é a d 1 0 /7 G 1 a n sa b id á -d ó -b a d a d 1 0 /8 C 1 a n sa b id á -d ro m á d 1 0 /1 0 G 1 a n sa b id á -m e a b é m a d 1 5 /5 A n tw re n M yr m o th e ru la b ra ch yu ra H e rm a n n T h a m n o p h il id a e G 1 1 6 /8 A n tp itt a P itt a so m a m ic h le ri C a ss in C o n o p o p h a g id a e D 1 a n sa b id á -w ẽ ra d 1 0 /7 K in g fi sh e r B D 2 a n sa b id á -z a k é d 1 0 /9 B D 2 1 0 /7 C 1 1 0 /1 1 B 1 m e a b é m a -a n sa b id á -s a sá d 1 5 /7 A n tw re n E p in e cr o p h yl la f u lv iv e n tr is L a w re n ce T h a m n o p h il id a e G 1 n u n sí -a n sa b id á 1 0 /1 1 K in g fi sh e r A 1 a n tu m iá d 2 4 /1 0 V ir e o V ir e o l e u co p h ry s La fr e sn a ye V ir e o n id a e D 1 a n tu m iá -i m b a n á d 6 /1 1 C u ck o o D ro m o co cc yx p h a si a n e ll u s Sp ix C u cu li d a e C 1 2 4 /1 6 P ip it A n th u s lu te sc e n s P u ch e ra n M o ta ci ll id a e I 1 a n tu m iá -j ã ĩm b a n á d 2 3 /3 F ly ca tc h e r P ti lo g o n ys c a u d a tu s C a b a n is P ti li o g o n a ti d a e C 1 a o { n ẽ jõ m b ʌ} 2 /1 1 K it e C h o n d ro h ie ra x u n ci n a tu s T e m m in ck A cc ip it ri d a e I 1 (c o n ti n u e d o n n e x t p ag e ) Ethnobiology Letters. DOI: 10.14237/ebl.6.1.2015.226. 39 Data, Methods & Taxonomies (c o n ti n u e d o n n e x t p ag e ) (c o n ti n u e d f ro m p re v io u s p ag e ) 2 /1 2 H a rp a g u s b id e n ta tu s La th a m A cc ip it ri d a e I 1 3 /4 H a w k B u te o g a ll u s a n th ra ci n u s D e p p e A cc ip it ri d a e I 1 ã rĩ ã rĩ 2 6 /1 3 G ra ck le Q u is ca lu s m e xi ca n u s G m e li n I ct e ri d a e A 1 2 6 /1 6 C o w b ir d M o lo th ru s o ry zi vo ru s G m e li n I ct e ri d a e A 1 ã w ẽ n sõ v 5 /4 P a ra k e e t E u p si tt u la p e rti n a x Li n n a e u s P si tt a ci d a e C D F G I 5 5 /1 M a ca w A ra s e ve ru s Li n n a e u s P si tt a ci d a e C H 2 5 /5 P a ra k e e t P yr rh u ra h o ff m a n n i C a b a n is P si tt a ci d a e E 1 5 /6 P si tt a ca ra fi n sc h i S a lv in P si tt a ci d a e A 1 b a g a rá 5 /1 M a ca w A ra s e ve ru s Li n n a e u s P si tt a ci d a e A E F G 4 5 /5 P a ra k e e t P yr rh u ra h o ff m a n n i C a b a n is P si tt a ci d a e H 1 5 /6 P si tt a ca ra fi n sc h i S a lv in P si tt a ci d a e H 1 3 2 /1 5 P a rr o t P io n o p si tt a p yr il ia B o n a p a rt e P si tt a ci d a e E 1 b a g a rá -p a u w a rá d 5 /1 M a ca w B D 2 e yá -b a g a rá d 5 /1 I 1 5 /6 P a ra k e e t C 1 b a g a rá c h ib o ró p u rr ú d 5 /5 F 2 b a g a rá c h ik u a rá d 5 /5 B F 2 Ji w á -b a g a rá d 5 /5 C I 2 3 2 /5 P u ffl e g H a p lo p h a e d ia a u re li a e B o u rc ie r & M u ls a n t T ro ch il id a e F 1 3 2 /1 5 P a rr o t H 1 b a su sú 1 3 /a ll P ic u le t P ic u m n u s sp .
keywords: c o; d e; e b; e c; e e; e g; e la; e li; e n; e o; e p; e r; e s; e t; e u; h e; m e; m n; m o; n b; n c; n d; n g; n n; n p; n s; n t; n u; o n; o p; o u; ri d; s p; s s; u p; u s
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id: ebl-227
author: Otaola, Clara
title: Actualistic Zooarchaeology in Central Western Argentina in Cave and Open Air Contexts
date: 2014-09-04
words: 4819
flesch: 56
summary: For buried bones in Context A, lumbar vertebrae were “emerging” at the surface, exhibiting carnivore gnawmarks and some evidence of pitting (Binford 1981; Haynes 1983, Lyman 1994), indicating that a small carnivore excavated the remains (Figure 2a). Post-depositional modifications to bone surface, such as carnivore and rodent gnawmarks or any other agent responsible for bone-surface damage or fragmentation were recorded.
keywords: archaeological; bones; carnivore; cave; context; marks; processes; remains; rodent; studies; surface
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item: #93 of 189
id: ebl-23
author: Fowler, Cynthia; Pittsenbarger, Amy
title: An Interview with Ethnobiologist Dr. Elizabeth Widjaja
date: 2011-12-11
words: 1675
flesch: 56
summary: The purpose behind our design of this Letter from the Editors is to present an interview with Dr. Elizabeth Widjaja and to spread the word about a successful female ethnobiologist from a developing country. Dr. Elizabeth Widjaja (EW): My interest in bamboo began in 1975 with a study of bamboo musical instruments in West Java.
keywords: bamboo; elizabeth; indonesian; poaceae; use; widjaja
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id: ebl-237
author: Pazhoohi, Farid
title: Secret Chambers: The Insider Story of Cells and Complex Life
date: 2014-08-03
words: 1770
flesch: 58
summary: In the fourth chapter, Brasier tells the story of his amazing and adventurous expedition encountering Pedro Bank, an offshore island to the southwest of Jamaica, and mapping out its reefs and shorelines If Martin Brasier didn’t want to pick science as his occupation, certainly he should have chosen to be a novelist, instead! Professor Martin Brasier who is a palaeobiologist at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, in his book Secret Chambers: The Inside Story of Cells and Complex Life, takes us on a journey “to understand the complexity of the complex modern cell, and of the quest to rescue its hidden history from deep within the fossil record” (p. VI).
keywords: book; brasier; cells; chapter; symbiosis
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id: ebl-24
author: Valenzuela-Zapata, Ana G.; Lopez-Muraira, Irma; Gaytán, Marie Sarita
title: Traditional Knowledge, Agave Inaequidens (Koch) Conservation, and the Charro Lariat Artisans of San Miguel Cuyutlán, Mexico
date: 2011-11-16
words: 6408
flesch: 58
summary: The manufacture of charro ropes is an artisinal practice that requires both cultural and botanical knowlege. In VIII article chapter 57 of the 2011 Charro rulebook (Charrería Reglamento 2011), charro attire and charrería regulations are described in detail; however, there is no mention of charro ropes.
keywords: agave; cerro; charrería; charro; cuyutlán; fibers; inaequidens; jalisco; knowledge; lariat; mexican; mexico; miguel; rope; san; species; viejo; wild
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item: #96 of 189
id: ebl-251
author: Hart, Thomas C.
title: Analysis of Starch Grains Produced in Select Taxa Encountered in Southwest Asia
date: 2014-12-15
words: 5568
flesch: 65
summary: Piperno et al., 2004; Reichert, 1913 Alopecurus pratensis L. Reichert, 1913 Avena barbata Po ex Link Piperno et al., 2004 Avena sterilis L. Henry et al., 2011 Brachypodium distachyon (L.) P.Beauv. Henry et al., 2011 Tri cum aes vum (T. aes vum ssp aes vum) L. Henry et al., 2011; 2009 Tri cum dicoccum (T. turgidum ssp.
keywords: aegilops; asia; et al; grains; henry; hordeum; piperno; piperno et; reichert; research; seed; southwest; species; starch; starches; taxa; tri
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id: ebl-253
author: Ragosta, Summer; Harris, Ivelyn; Gyakari, Ntim; Otoo, Emmanuel; Asase, Alex
title: Participatory Ethnomedicinal Cancer Research with Fante-Akan Herbalists in Rural Ghana
date: 2015-07-21
words: 8695
flesch: 50
summary: Previously published phytochemical studies on species collected in this research suggest a biological basis for their use in Fante cancer treatments. Fante herbalist cancer ethnopharmacopoeia.
keywords: africa; cancer; community; e s; ethnobiology; fante; ghana; herbalists; kormantse; medicine; o n; o p; plant; project; research; species; tropical
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item: #98 of 189
id: ebl-26
author: Pizarro-Neyra, José
title: Peruvian Children's Folk Taxonomy of Marine Animals
date: 2011-09-09
words: 4320
flesch: 57
summary: Frequency of marine animals names used per child. The lower number of marine animal names recorded ETHNOBIOLOGY LETTERS Research Communication 54 per child in the 6-8 year-old age group is most likely explained by the lower cognitive development of younger children.
keywords: actinopterygii; animals; birds; category; children; ethnobiology; fish; fishing; folk; lists; marine; names; oma; pisces; species
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item: #99 of 189
id: ebl-261
author: Bendrey, Robin
title: Camels in Asia and North Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on their Past and Present Significance
date: 2014-11-13
words: 1662
flesch: 49
summary: Monophyletic origin of domestic bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) and its evolutionary relationship with the extant wild camel (Camelus bactrianus ferus). The volume highlights the vital role of Old World camels in the human past and present – in particular in regional food production and transport contributions to warfare and long-distance trade and communication – Book Review Ethnobiology Le ers. 2014.
keywords: book; camel; dromedaries; volume
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item: #100 of 189
id: ebl-278
author: Dombrosky, Jonathan
title: Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology
date: 2014-11-13
words: 1992
flesch: 51
summary: 133 accounts, and the archaeological record to break the Tewa Basin into five unique geographic regions. This is significant because each region exhibits population trends that differ from the overall Tewa Basin trend, especially in the Pajarito and Cochiti regions.
keywords: grande; mesa; ortman; tewa; verde
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item: #101 of 189
id: ebl-286
author: Pierotti, Raymond
title: Explorations in Ethnobiology: The Legacy of Amadeo Rea
date: 2014-11-13
words: 1793
flesch: 41
summary: This concept may have come from his work with Indigenous peoples, who classify storks as a form of vulture. Only one chapter deals specifically with archae- ology: Charmion McCusick’s chapter 11 on the ecological conclusions that can be drawn based upon evidence from ruins in the Upland Salado between the Explorations in Ethnobiology: The Legacy of Amadeo Rea (EiE) begins with a short article by Rea setting the tone by pointing out how Western attempts at economic development often destroy both local diversity and long-term management schemes developed by Indigenous peoples, a theme repeated in several chapters.
keywords: chapter; ethnobiology; forms; people; rea
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id: ebl-288
author: Guarrera, Paolo Maria; Savo, Valentina; Caneva, Giulia
title: Traditional Uses of Plants in the Tolfa–Cerite–Manziate Area (Central Italy)
date: 2015-09-02
words: 26259
flesch: 78
summary: S o rv e F ru it s M E D * : E a te n a g a in st d ia rr h o e a A T R F a m il y R u b ia ce a e R u b ia p e re g ri n a L . i = C E L E X : 0 1 9 9 2 L 0 0
keywords: c n; d s; e b; e c; e d; e e; e n; e p; e ri; e s; g e; h e; k e; la n; m e; m o; m p; n d; n g; n n; n s; n t; n ti; n u; o n; o p; o u; r n; s m; s o; s p; t e; t o; v e; w e
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id: ebl-29
author: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Byrnes, Jarrett E.
title: Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings
date: 2011-10-29
words: 4426
flesch: 43
summary: We reasoned that holding biennial conferences would reduce the carbon cost of scientific meetings by ~50%. Scientific Meetings: Worth Attending.
keywords: 2010; 2011; carbon; co2; conferences; emissions; footprint; meetings; national; regional; scientists; societies; society; travel
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item: #104 of 189
id: ebl-297
author: Hunn, Eugene
title: To Know Them is to Love Them
date: 2014-12-30
words: 3290
flesch: 52
summary: The stunning ignorance of local biodiversity demonstrated by contemporary college students (Medin et al. 2006) may be symptomatic of a modern malady, dubbed by Loev, “Nature Deficit Disorder” (2005), which in turn may account for a lack of passion in defense of the local natural environment by the earth’s predominant- ly urban populations. Cognitive ethnobiology was defined by theoretical issues of central concern in the 1960s, notably, how best to define “culture” as the proper subject of anthropological understanding.
keywords: biodiversity; conservation; ethnobiology; knowledge; love; nature; new; university; world
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item: #105 of 189
id: ebl-298
author: Owlett, Tricia E.
title: Anthropological Perspectives on Tooth Morphology: Genetics, Evolution, Variation. G. Richard Scott and Joel D. Irish. eds. 2013. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Pp. 612. ISBN: 978-1-10701-145-8.
date: 2015-03-06
words: 1215
flesch: 46
summary: In the last 20 years, our knowledge of the relationship between genetics and dental morphology has grown exponentially. The standardization of dental nonmetric traits outlined in the Arizona State University Dental Anthropology System (ASUDAS) has been an important foundation for developing studies on dental morphology.
keywords: book; chapter; morphology; tooth
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item: #106 of 189
id: ebl-30
author: Welch, James R.
title: Ethics in Ethnobiology Publication
date: 2012-12-29
words: 1762
flesch: 25
summary: As the ISE code of ethics emphasizes, due credit to research consultants is a standard of ethical research in ethnobiology. An important conclusion to be drawn from these sources is that ethnobiology research and publishing ethics cannot be reduced to any single issue and often vary according to the circumstances of a particular study.
keywords: adobe; authors; ethics; ethnobiology; research
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item: #107 of 189
id: ebl-316
author: Stevens, Lois; Pierotti, Raymond
title: Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience. Enrique Salmon. 2012. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Pp. 160. $17.95 (paper). ISBN 978-0-8165-3011-3
date: 2015-03-27
words: 2322
flesch: 58
summary: As an Indigenous scholar with deep roots in his home community, Enrique Salmón has become one of the most important voices in the renaissance of Traditional Knowledge of Indigenous peoples and the significance of this knowledge in allowing us to understand the world. Many Indige- nous people have gained their cultural knowledge from their grandparents, so the opening chapter helps Indigenous people relate to the book and lets non- Indigenous readers see where his story begins.
keywords: book; food; people; salmón; stories
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item: #108 of 189
id: ebl-32
author: Driver, Jonathan C.
title: Identification, Classification and Zooarchaeology
date: 2011-08-09
words: 15364
flesch: 46
summary: However, there are important differences between a system of bone identification and artefact typology. It will be suggested that zooarchaeologists should consider their identification systems more carefully in order to increase the degree of standardisation of data presentation and reduce the possibility of interpretive error resulting from misapplication of identification methods.
keywords: analysis; archaeological; bison; bones; classification; comments; data; driver; example; faunal; fragments; identification; methods; paper; remains; research; site; species; specimens; taxonomic; use; zooarchaeologists; zooarchaeology
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item: #109 of 189
id: ebl-328
author: Narchi, Nemer E.
title: Shells on a Desert Shore: Mollusks in the Seri World. By Cathy Moser Marlett. 2014. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 304 pp. $75.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-8165-3068-7.
date: 2015-06-23
words: 1244
flesch: 59
summary: Here, the reader plunges directly into Seri ethnomalacology thanks to the vivid description of numerous biocul- tural roles that mollusks play within Seri culture. 63 Book Review Part I, “The Settings,” invites readers to get to know and familiarize themselves with Seri culture, language, and territory.
keywords: book; culture; mollusks; moser; seri
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item: #110 of 189
id: ebl-33
author: Pazhoohi, Farid
title: Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru. Part 1: Primates
date: 2011-09-27
words: 834
flesch: 51
summary: “For this reason, Matses do not hunt howler monkeys as frequently as they do other monkeys. An example is howler monkeys (Alouatta seniculus Atelidae L.); Matses believe only older people are permitted to eat their meat.
keywords: book; matses; monkeys
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item: #111 of 189
id: ebl-34
author: Pierotti, Raymond
title: Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery
date: 2011-08-15
words: 2346
flesch: 55
summary: To many readers this might seem contradictory to the idea that Native peoples had caused damage to these resources, however, the “realist” crowd has an explanation already prepared, i.e. that Indigenous populations had been so devastated by introduced diseases that all of the fish and wildlife had recovered from the presumably, much lower numbers in which they had existed prior to the arrival of Europeans. They learned these lessons from thousands of years of co- existing with Indigenous population and if we are willing, all of these survivors may yet be seen in substantial numbers.
keywords: america; book; nicholls; north; peoples; populations
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item: #112 of 189
id: ebl-344
author: Hart, Thomas C.
title: New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops. Edited by Paul E. Minnis. 2014. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 288 pp. $65.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-0-8165-3062-5.
date: 2015-09-02
words: 2059
flesch: 50
summary: Other crops, such as chia and agave, are still cultivat- ed today but not on enough of a scale to impact global food markets. These two taxa were grown throughout the lowland Neo- tropics of Central and South America and the Caribbean and are still cultivated today, albeit at a small scale when compared to other root crops such as manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz Euphorbiaceae), yam (Dioscorea Linnaeus Dioscoreaceae), or sweet potato (Ipomoeae batatas Linnaeus Convolvulaceae).
keywords: agave; book; chapter; crops; food; linnaeus; taxa
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item: #113 of 189
id: ebl-349
author: Moretti, Erika; Arrighi, Simona; Boschin, Francesco; Crezzini, Jacopo; Aureli, Daniele; Ronchitelli, Annamaria
title: Using 3D Microscopy to Analyze Experimental Cut Marks on Animal Bones Produced with Different Stone Tools
date: 2015-12-18
words: 4919
flesch: 55
summary: This evidence is relevant in developing future experimental protocols in the study of tool marks and other human caused traces on bones. Parameters of produced tools are presented in Table 1.
keywords: bone; burins; cut; digital; doi; engravings; figure; flakes; marks; research; tool
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item: #114 of 189
id: ebl-35
author: Anderson, E. N.
title: Feeding the People, Feeding the Spirit: Revitalizing Northwest Coastal Indian Food
date: 2011-08-14
words: 507
flesch: 55
summary: Many of the entries on traditional foods include myths, stories, and conservation knowledge. The ethnobotany section includes not only the traditional foods that are still commonly used, but considerable food advice on how to deal with supermarket foods: how to substitute for traditional foods, how to shop wisely, what to avoid, and so on.
keywords: food; northwest
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item: #115 of 189
id: ebl-36
author: Anderson, E. N.
title: Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology
date: 2011-05-11
words: 1931
flesch: 52
summary: This book consists of eleven essays, treating different topics related to Native American views of the nonhuman world. It is absolutely necessary reading for anyone interested in Native American views ETHNOBIOLOGY LETTERS Book Review 5 of and theories about the natural or other-than-human world and humanity’s place therein.
keywords: american; book; ecological; humans; pierotti
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item: #116 of 189
id: ebl-37
author: Hockett, Bryan
title: Paleonutrition
date: 2011-05-09
words: 1317
flesch: 46
summary: Paleonutrition should not be considered the “definitive volume” on the study of ancient nutrition and health, but it does have some good points. Great Basin Human Ecology at the Pleistocene- Holocene Transition, edited by K. E. Graf and D. N. Schmitt, pp.
keywords: book; chapter; paleonutrition; research
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id: ebl-378
author: Biwer, Matthew E; VanDerwarker, Amber M
title: Paleoethnobotany and Ancient Alcohol Production: A Mini-Review
date: 2015-05-05
words: 2334
flesch: 50
summary: Because the beverage itself is unlikely to preserve in the archaeological record, archaeobotanists must infer ancient alcohol production by examining the structure and form of recovered seeds and examining the spatial context of recovery. 28 Mini-Review number of preparation steps that can be involved in alcohol production, including steeping, sprouting, pressing, mashing, drying, toasting, grinding, boiling, and distilling plant parts for a range of effects.
keywords: alcohol; beverages; evidence; maize; production
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item: #118 of 189
id: ebl-38
author: Platt, Steven G.; Platt, Kalyar; Naing, Thet Zaw; Meng, Hong; Ko, Win Ko; Lin, Naing; Tizzard, Robert J.; Myo, Khin Myo; Soe, Me Me; Rainwater, Thomas R.
title: Birdlime in Western Myanmar: Preparation, Use, and Conservation Implications for an Endemic Bird
date: 2012-12-17
words: 5651
flesch: 55
summary: Although we were unable to determine which species are taken by liming, descriptions provided by hunters suggest that smaller birds (e.g., babblers, bulbuls, flycatchers, barbets, warblers, and finches) comprise the bulk of the catch. Saul (2005:65) stated the Naga use “…sticky secretions from trees or seeds to trap small birds”.
keywords: birdlime; birds; chin; conservation; hunters; hunting; macpherson; myanmar; naing; park; research; species; use; wildlife
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item: #119 of 189
id: ebl-382
author: Baker, Janelle Marie
title: Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices. Edited by Eveline Dürr and Rivke Jaffe. 2010. Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, Vol. 15. Berghahn Books, New York. 216 pp. $120.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-1-78238-508-0.
date: 2015-09-02
words: 1085
flesch: 45
summary: In the second chapter, Eveline Dürr examines how concepts of cultural pollution are revealed through discourse about environmental pollution in New Zealand. The materiality and sociality of urban pollution are relational entities that produce each other—this relational materiality itself, as well as the hybridity of pollution, can be the focus of study (Dürr and Jaffe 2010:3).
keywords: chapter; ethnobiology; pollution; social
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id: ebl-39
author: Svanberg, Ingvar
title: Folk Knowledge of an Individual Plant Specimen: The Case of the Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis L.) in Virestad Parish, Småland, Sweden
date: 2012-11-05
words: 2989
flesch: 60
summary: Plant knowledge is not only a question of how a plant was used, but also when, where and by whom. These are simple, but crucial questions for ethnobiologists to ask and answer in order to understand the context of plant knowledge.
keywords: fern; folk; knowledge; linnaeus; plant; royal; species; specimen; use
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item: #121 of 189
id: ebl-393
author: Dibble, W. Flint
title: Data Collection in Zooarchaeology: Incorporating Touch-Screen, Speech-Recognition, Barcodes, and GIS
date: 2015-12-18
words: 4528
flesch: 55
summary: While restrictions on variables in drop- down boxes do limit spelling mistakes, they do not adequately prevent an operator from mistyping and Participant Typing Errors Writing Errors Scanning Errors 1 211 1 140 3 30 2 217 165 56 3 146 128 4 37 4 267 215 1 70 5 172 125 3 47 6 243 1 165 55 7 234 2 119 1 35 8 230 1 155 1 48 9 160 142 1 50 10 230 114 1 45 11 243 175 50 12 201 1 161 50 13 220 232 32 14 145 123 34 15 158 115 33 16 308 1 170 1 45 17 200 2 138 1 36 18 198 184 46 19 126 110 2 21 20 134 1 157 32 21 167 110 2 38 22 400 1 168 85 23 209 145 42 24 124 1 156 1 35 25 225 1 176 36 Total 5168 13 3788 22 1088 0 Table 1. 254 Data, Methods & Taxonomies Special Issue on Digital Zooarchaeology Both touch-screen and speech-recognition are extremely easy to use as the verbal or tactile nature of data entry keeps the focus on the actual information one is recording, rather than struggling to transpose and type a code or awkward archaeological term.
keywords: 2015; archaeological; data; database; digital; entry; error; methods; recording; time
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id: ebl-4
author: Si, Aung
title: Aspects of Honeybee Natural History According to the Solega
date: 2013-07-30
words: 6193
flesch: 62
summary: It is also during this time that the Solega start to be keenly aware of the presence of bees in their environment, frequently looking up at trees for hives, and exchanging information on the movements of bee colonies in the neighboring forest. When (the queen) wants to grow its family, it makes other bees from the comb.
keywords: appdata; asb0123; bees; ebl_bee_paper_25; file:///c:/users; hive; honeybee; new; queen; solega; temp; tree
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id: ebl-40
author: Carbajal-Esquivel, Haydeé; Martínez, Javier Fortanelli; García-Pérez, José; Reyes-Agüero, Juan A.; Yáñez-Espinosa, Laura; Bonta, Mark
title: Use Value of Food Plants in the Xi'iuy Indigenous Community of Las Guapas, Rayon, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
date: 2012-08-21
words: 9077
flesch: 69
summary: Musa x paradisiaca L. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.00 Nopalea cochenillifera (L.) Musa x paradisiaca L. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.00 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.00 Nopalea cochenillifera (L.)
keywords: citrus; communication; food; interviewees; knowledge; luis; number; plants; research; san; species; use; uses; value; women
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id: ebl-401
author: Battillo, Jenna M.; Fisher, Abigail E.
title: Reconstructing Meat Consumption through Biomarker Analyses of Paleofeces
date: 2015-08-25
words: 1705
flesch: 49
summary: All control samples (including comparative modern human fecal samples, human paleofeces, and Reconstructing Meat Consumption through Biomarker Analyses of Paleofeces Jenna M. Battillo 1* and Abigail E. Fisher 1 Author Addresses: 1 Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, 3225 Daniel Avenue, Heroy Hall, Room 408, Dallas, TX 75205-1437, USA. Both Poinar et al. (2001) and Battillo et al. (2014) successfully extracted mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) using traditional PCR to study animal constituents from archaeological paleofeces in Hinds Cave, Texas and Turkey Pen Ruin, Utah, respectively.
keywords: diet; dna; meat; paleofeces; studies
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id: ebl-410
author: Kawa, Nicholas C.; Painter, Bradley; Murray, Cailín E.
title: Trail Trees: Living Artifacts (Vivifacts) of Eastern North America
date: 2015-09-17
words: 3875
flesch: 60
summary: In this article, we pr esent a synthesis of current knowledge on trail trees, including their speculated functions, formation, and selection. To conclude, we make a call for expanded public recognition and documentation of trail trees, discussing the need for their incorporation into forest and park management plans.
keywords: america; eastern; living; native; north; past; trail; trail trees; trees; university; use
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id: ebl-416
author: Smith, Alexia; Dotzel, Krista; Fountain, Joyce; Proctor, Lucas; von Baeyer, Madelynn
title: Examining Fuel Use in Antiquity: Archaeobotanical and Anthracological Approaches in Southwest Asia
date: 2015-11-08
words: 2548
flesch: 45
summary: Examining Dung Fuel in Southwest Asia In contrast to anthracology, archaeobotanists have traditionally focused on questions of subsistence but since the publication of Miller and Smart’s (1984) study of dung fuel use at ancient Malyan, Iran, increasing attention has been paid to identifying dung fuel and assessing the relative importance of dung versus wood fuels across Southwest Asia. Settled agriculturalists intensified wood fuel use to prepare plaster floors, heat baths, make glass, tiles, and bricks, and (from the Chalcolithic onward) to smelt metals.
keywords: asia; dung; fuel; remains; southwest; studies; use; wood
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id: ebl-42
author: Shaw, Leona R.; Young, Jane P.
title: Ethnobotany of Tl'azt'en Nation: Plant Use and Gathering Site Characteristics
date: 2012-03-07
words: 7527
flesch: 66
summary: Pierre John, one of the Tla’zt’en participants, explains how plant medicines have been used in the past. The objectives of this research are to gain an understanding of the criteria for gathering individual plants for food or medicine, and to identify reasons why traditional plant gathering sites may fall out of use.
keywords: berries; british; columbia; community; food; gathering; knowledge; medicine; nation; participants; people; plants; research; sites; tl’azt’en; use
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id: ebl-44
author: Fujisawa, Natsuho; Nakashizuka, Tohru
title: Utilization of Non-Timber Forest Products Based on Traditional Culture: A Case Study of Iban Dyeing in Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
date: 2012-04-06
words: 1844
flesch: 64
summary: From September to November 2009, we interviewed four weavers and observed additional persons collecting and processing dye plants in three Iban villages whose names are Rumah Engkang, Rumah Ejon, and Rumah Nyawai. The foundation provides the Rumah Engkang people with yarns that have undergone the week-long ngar ceremony performed by a master dyer (Linggi 2001; Gavin 2004) and which residents of Rumah Engkang then weave into textiles.
keywords: iban; plant; rumah; villages
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id: ebl-45
author: Holtzman, Jon D.
title: The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South
date: 2012-12-22
words: 1734
flesch: 46
summary: (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. Several deal with specific producers of barbecue, some with restaurants that are particularly notable or well-known in the micro-region upon which the author focuses, and some with detailed analysis of a geographically focused form of barbecue tradition.
keywords: adobe; barbecue; book; food; south
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id: ebl-46
author: Martinez-Reyes, Jose
title: Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook
date: 2012-09-26
words: 695
flesch: 42
summary: Their objectives—“to connect the dots” between several life projects with similar objectives, to link biocultural conservation projects, to increase public visibility, to create a larger united front—are not only commendable, but more importantly, are urgent. Some anthropologists, however, would like to know more of the intimate details about the dynamics between conservation projects and indigenous peoples, principally the contentious issues that surround particular Western notions of conservation versus local indigenous point of views.
keywords: book; conservation
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id: ebl-467
author: Kansa, Sarah Whitcher
title: Using Linked Open Data to Improve Data Reuse in Zooarchaeology
date: 2015-12-18
words: 4537
flesch: 52
summary: Part of the greater public policy interest in research data management comes from recognition that researchers do a poor job as stewards of their own data, where many datasets maintained by individual researchers are lost entirely after only a few years, while others are useless because of a lack of detailed data description (Vines et al. 2014). Furthermore, printed data tables, even if complete, cannot be searched or sorted, and thus lead to a painfully slow process of transcription by the person seeking to use them.
keywords: 2015; data; datasets; digital; doi; lod; practices; research; reuse; sharing; zooarchaeology
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id: ebl-469
author: Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E.
title: Diversity and Demographics of Zooarchaeologists: Results from a Digital Survey
date: 2015-12-18
words: 4557
flesch: 54
summary: No Response 15 Colombia 1 5 Peru 0 4 Australia & Oceania 19 29 Australia 16 21 New Zealand 3 8 Table 1. Distribution of zooarchaeologists by continent and country showing the number of survey respondents and 2014 ICAZ members. Age of survey respondents in the US and Canada.
keywords: american; canada; income; individuals; research; respondents; survey; women; zooarchaeologists; zooarchaeology
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id: ebl-47
author: Pierotti, Raymond
title: Forms of Becoming: The Evolutionary Biology of Development
date: 2012-06-26
words: 2436
flesch: 44
summary: Minelli is a scholar of the evolution of animal form at the University of Padua (this book was originally published in Italian as Forme de Devinere), therefore, his knowledge of development is solidly grounded. Finally in the 1980s, the discovery of Hox genes provided a mechanism that directly linked DNA with development, thus providing the stimulus for a “new” discipline, referred to as Evolutionary Developmental Biology, or Evo/Devo for short.
keywords: animals; biology; development; devo; genes; minelli
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id: ebl-481
author: Anderson, Eugene N.
title: Beyond Nature and Culture. By Philippe Descola. Translated by Janet Lloyd. 2013. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Xxii + 463 pp. $35.00 (paperback), $65.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-22621-236-4 (paperback), 978-0-22614-445-0 (hardcover).
date: 2015-12-19
words: 2670
flesch: 60
summary: All the above leads me to think that Descola has done a masterful job of discussing and synthesizing ontologies, and of bringing ontology (worldview, cosmology…) back into the anthropological main- stream, but I do not see this as the final word (nor is it claimed to be). His book is a major study of traditional ontologies.
keywords: book; descola; humans; ontologies; ontology; world
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id: ebl-499
author: Rokpelnis, Kārlis
title: The Ecology of Pastoralism. Edited by P. Nick Kardulias. 2015. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 272 pp.
date: 2016-02-19
words: 1060
flesch: 33
summary: Using analysis of fortification typologies, Negus Cleary maintains that at various times pastoralists as well as agriculturalists would use the same fortifications, and thus settling down behind walls might as well be yet another expression of pastoralist adaptation. Moritz argues that pastoralists seek integration into the patrimonial networks that permeate the state in order to ensure access to rangeland.
keywords: adaptation; ecology; pastoralists; volume
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id: ebl-50
author: Rick, Torben C.
title: When the Killing's Done
date: 2012-03-14
words: 1259
flesch: 49
summary: Using examples of invasive species eradication on California’s Channel Islands and tensions between conservation biologists and animal rights activists, Boyle thrusts human environmental interactions, island ecology, and restoration ecology into a dramatic narrative (see a cinematic trailer for the book here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryFvrjhI3Pk). Through all of the excitement and fantasy, Boyle provides an important account of modern conservation biology and human environmental interactions.
keywords: book; conservation; human; island
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id: ebl-51
author: Smith, Kate
title: Aridland Springs in North America: Ecology and Conservation
date: 2012-03-09
words: 750
flesch: 46
summary: Both authors, Nabhan and Amadeo Rea, conclude that the indigenous spring management was likely more effective at preserving spring function and biodiversity than current management practices by the federal government. Sixteen examines the legal issues of spring conservation and seventeen summarizes the current research gaps and the conservation challenges still remaining.
keywords: aridland; conservation; springs
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id: ebl-55
author: Vougioukalou, Sofia A.
title: An interviewwith Elisabeth Hsu on Plants, Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology
date: 2012-12-29
words: 3465
flesch: 48
summary: For botanists, the core of ethnobotanical research is the accurate identification of medicinal plant species. The identification of medicinal plant species indeed is very important but there are other important issues in the way plants are used that are neglected by ethnobota- nists.
keywords: anthropology; book; ethnobotany; health; plants; research; sav; species; university
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id: ebl-551
author: Mardones, Vanessa
title: Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America. Vols. 1 & 2.
date: 2016-03-11
words: 896
flesch: 35
summary: With this book, Turner aims to “contribute to the advancement of knowledge and understandings both about cultural adaptations to specific places and environmental situations and about influences of people on these places and ecosystems” (p. 411, v.2). Among the Indigenous peoples she worked with, Professor Turner found a pervasive perspective that “humans are only strands in the immense fabric of the universe” (p. 351, v. 2).
keywords: knowledge; turner; v.2
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id: ebl-561
author: Coimbra, Carlos E. A.
title: Una Isĩ Kayawa: Livro de Cura do Povo Huni Kuĩ do Rio Jordão. Edited by Agostinho Manduca M. Ĩka Muru and Alexandre Quinet. 2014. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro and Dante Editores, Rio de Janeiro. 260 pp.
date: 2016-02-19
words: 1077
flesch: 56
summary: As a watchful leader, Ĩka Muru worried about the continuity of Huni Kuĩ culture and society in face of the swift social and political transformations, to which younger generations seemed to him to be more vulnerable. Back in the 1970s, as he travelled through rainforest trails to visit Huni Kuĩ communities dispersed along the Rio Jordão valley, Ĩka Muru observed, experimented, and recorded plants and plant knowledge among his own people.
keywords: huni; kuĩ; rio; ĩka
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id: ebl-562
author: Welch, James R.
title: Brazil's New Biodiversity Law
date: 2015-12-21
words: 1265
flesch: 44
summary: Despite receiving praise from some quarters, the new law may have been enacted through a process marred by major legal oversights, including inade- quate previous consultation with Indigenous peoples, as required by the International Labour Organization Convention No. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (Távora et al. 2015). His anthropological research focuses on the interface between environment, culture, and health among indigenous peoples in Brazil.
keywords: brazil; december; law; research
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id: ebl-57
author: Hart, Thomas C.; Ives, Timothy H.
title: Preliminary Starch Grain Evidence of Ancient Stone Tool Use at the Early Archaic (9,000 B.P.) Site of Sandy Hill, Mashantucket, Connecticut
date: 2013-09-02
words: 5640
flesch: 54
summary: This study highlights the potential use of starch grains found on museum curated stone tools for recon- structing plant use practices at this site. This approach assumes that different proportions, abundances, and varieties of starch grains present in each sediment (or layer) reflect differing degrees of post-depositional contamination.
keywords: analysis; early; grains; hill; mashantucket; plant; research; sandy; site; starch; starch grains; stone; storage; transitory
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id: ebl-572
author: Forth, Gregory
title: Eastern Sumbanese Bird Classification and Nomenclature: Additions and Revisions
date: 2016-04-05
words: 5749
flesch: 53
summary: Additional information is provided concerning symbolic uses of bird categories, including bird names used as place names and local beliefs about nightjars (Camprimulgus spp.) which correspond to ideas encountered on the ethnozoologically better-known neighboring island of Flores. Received December 24, 2015 OPEN ACCESS Accepted March 18, 2016 DOI 10.14237/ebl.7.1.2016.572 Keywords Bird classification, Folk taxonomic analysis, Bird names, Sumba Island, Eastern Indonesia
keywords: bird; eastern; folk; forth; informants; information; kaka; kambera; onvlee; rawa; rindi; sumbanese; term
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id: ebl-573
author: Dozier, Crystal A.
title: Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fermentation Effects on Pollen: Archaeological Implications
date: 2016-03-30
words: 3396
flesch: 53
summary: Ethnobiology Letters 7(1):32–37 35 Research Communications Discussion While Roldán et al. (2011) found the addition of pollen increased lipids and other nutrients for S. cerevisiae that resulted in higher ethanol production (indicating yeast metabolism of pollen grains), the individual exines of pollen grains and pollen profile of honey remained unchanged under light microscopy through fermentation. While palynologists have long understood that ethanol does not alter the structure of pollen grains (pollen is often stored in ethanol), no direct study has looked at how S. cerevisiae metabolism affects pollen grains.
keywords: bryant; fermentation; grains; honey; mead; pollen; research; samples
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id: ebl-59
author: Wolverton, Steve; Fowler, Cynthia; Cozzo, David
title: Introducing Ethnobiology Letters
date: 2010-07-12
words: 808
flesch: 36
summary: Microsoft Word - Letter from the Editors[3].doc ETHNOBIOLOGY LETTERS Introductory Letter 1 Letter from the Editors Introducing Ethnobiology Letters Steve Wolverton 1 , Cynthia Fowler 2 , David Cozzo 3 Author Addresses: 1 University of North Texas, Department of Geography, Denton, TX 76203, 2 Wofford College, Department of Sociology, Spartanburg, South Carolina 29303, 3 North Carolina State University, RTCAR, Cherokee, NC 28710 EthnobiologyLetters@gmail.com Received: July 12 th 2010 Volume 1:1‐2 Published: © 2010 Society of Ethnobiology Ethnobiology Letters (EBL) is a peer-reviewed journal for short papers on topics related to ‘the study of human and plant and animal interactions.’ First, there is no outlet dedicated to publishing short papers for ethnobiologists.
keywords: ethnobiology; journal
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id: ebl-60
author: Barker, Andrew
title: Archaeological Protein Residues: New Data for Conservation Science
date: 2011-02-17
words: 5790
flesch: 41
summary: In this paper, I discuss the relevance of archaeological protein residue analysis to wildlife management issues. Future Research Despite some successes in the recovery and identification of archaeological protein residues, several limitations have hindered the widespread application of protein-based studies, most of which are rooted in the shortage of published methodological research (but see Barnard et al. 2007; Buckley et al. 2010; Brandt et al. 2002; Craig and Collins 2000, 2002; Solazzo et al. 2008; ETHNOBIOLOGY LETTERS Perspective 63 Stevens et al. 2010).
keywords: analysis; conservation; dna; et al; protein; research; residue; science; species; studies
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id: ebl-61
author: Müller, Jocelyn; Guimbo, Iro Dan
title: Letting Wood Rot: A Case Study on Local Perceptions of Global Conservation Initiatives (Boumba, Niger)
date: 2011-01-21
words: 7555
flesch: 51
summary: This group traditionally had spiritual leaders who controlled fishing practices and regulated fish harvests, but their positions have been replaced by local conservation agents. Results & Discussion Goals of Conservation—In the interviews and discussions with residents of Boumba regarding conservation goals (Figure 1) the most common concept or theme of the discussion is tree protection.
keywords: boumba; community; conservation; development; discussions; goals; interviews; management; methods; national; niger; park; participants; people; perceptions; priorities; programs; residents; trees
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id: ebl-62
author: Fernández, Fernando Julián
title: Paleozoogeography of the Wine Mouse (Akodon oenos) & Late Holocene Paleoenvironments in South-Central Mendoza, Argentina
date: 2011-02-14
words: 3432
flesch: 51
summary: In terms of biometry, the specimen from Agua de La Mula falls within the range of A. oenos described by Braun et al. Remains of A. oenos from Agua de La Mula were recovered together with those of small mammal species that inhabit the area today (A. molinae, G. griseoflavus, P. xanthopygus, C. musculinus, G. leucoblephara and T. pallidior).
keywords: agua; akodon; argentina; mendoza; mni%; mula; oenos
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id: ebl-63
author: Welch, James R.
title: A Reply to van der Voort's Response to Welch's Review of "Urihi A: A Terra‐ Floresta Yanomami"
date: 2011-02-06
words: 328
flesch: 44
summary: As is the case for translation and illustration, it is neither obligatory nor usual to include collaborators in the list of authors in the bibliographical citation of book reviews. It is factually incorrect to identify Gomez as co-author and unwarranted to suggest that my “oversight” should not be excused.
keywords: book
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id: ebl-64
author: van der Voort, Hein
title: A Response to Welch's Review of "Urihi A: A Terra‐Floresta Yanomami"
date: 2010-12-15
words: 314
flesch: 49
summary: ISBN 978-85-85994-72-3. William Milliken and Bruce Albert with Gale Goodwin Gomez, illustrations by Jane Rutherford. 1999. The relevant bibliographical references are: Bruce Albert and William Milliken, com a colaboração de Gale Goodwin Gomez. 2009.
keywords: yanomami
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id: ebl-65
author: O'Brien, Colleen Marie
title: Landscape, Process and Power: Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge
date: 2010-09-06
words: 1385
flesch: 34
summary: The application of the term landscape to TEK is reflective of the interdisciplinary nature of environmental knowledge studies. Current debates both within and outside of academia focus on such questions as: How does environmental knowledge vary within a community and how is it learned and transmitted?
keywords: chapter; knowledge; tek; volume
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id: ebl-651
author: Anderson, Eugene N.
title: The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds. By Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. 2015. HAU Press, Chicago. 366 pp.
date: 2016-03-30
words: 1574
flesch: 53
summary: This is a system of ideas found among the Araweté, the people Viveiros de Castro studied in eastern Brazil over many years, and mutatis mutandis among many other groups in greater Amazonia. Columbia University Press, New York, NY.
keywords: book; castro; view; viveiros
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id: ebl-66
author: Scarpa, Gustav F.
title: Birds in the Daily Life of the Toba Indigenous People from the West of the Province of Formosa (Argentina)
date: 2010-09-06
words: 942
flesch: 42
summary: In the same way, most of the subsequent chapters could hardly be understood without taking into account some basic facts related to Toba material culture, mode of subsistence, annual cycle, shamanism and witchcraft, which are outlined briefly by the authors. The list of chapters is as follows: 1) Preface, 2) Acknowledgements, 3) Introduction, 4) Materials and Methodology, 5) The Toba and their Natural Environment, 6) Birds in the Life of the Toba, 7) Representation of Birds, 8) Usage of Birds, 9) Birds and Subsistence, 10) Material Culture, 11) Other Roles of Birds or their Parts, 12) Nomenclature for Bird Morphology, 13) Vernacular Names and Classificatory Systems, 14) Bird Directory, 15) The Toba’s Knowledge about Birds, 16) Bibliography, 17) Index of Toba and Scientific Names, 18) Index of Scientific and Vernacular Spanish Names.
keywords: birds; book; toba
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id: ebl-68
author: Anderson, E. N.
title: Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
date: 2010-08-31
words: 1892
flesch: 60
summary: Classification systems reflect not only the innate ETHNOBIOLOGY LETTERS Book Review 31 perceptual worlds of people, but also their cultural and linguistic worlds, and their immediate needs of the moment. Folk taxonomy is an arcane topic (I have to admit), so it is no surprise that this is the least developed theme in the book.
keywords: book; fish; taxonomy; umwelt; yoon
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id: ebl-69
author: Schram, Ryan
title: Kinship and Beyond: The Genealogical Model Reconsidered
date: 2010-08-26
words: 1110
flesch: 45
summary: Reviewed by Ryan Schram 1 Reviewer Address: 1 Center of Excellence in Global Governance Research, University of Helsinki Received: August 21st 2009 Volume 1:28‐29 Published: August 26th 2010 © 2010 Society of Ethnobiology David Schneider (1984) has famously showed that the original anthropological conception of kinship un- wittingly reflected a middle-class Western folk biology, and furthermore, other kinship systems are themselves based on different key symbols. In his essay titled Knowledge as Kinship, James Leach presents a case of Reite kinship in Papua New Guinea (PNG) where membership in local groups is based on either matri- or patri-filiation, and coresidence or mutual recognition of knowledge of a kin group's founding myths.
keywords: kinship; model; people
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id: ebl-695
author: Wolverton, Steve; Figueroa, Robert Melchior; Swentzell, Porter
title: Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region
date: 2016-12-31
words: 6536
flesch: 53
summary: Ethnobiology Letters 7(2):23–31 23 Research Communications Special Issue on Memoirs and Memory villages not be excavated; thus, archaeologists and those who claim Pueblo heritage commonly adopt different positions about what ought and ought not to be done in terms of archaeological research. Con- trasting identities and narratives about Ancestral Pueblo culture leads to questions about whether or not it is ethical to pursue archaeological research without deeper involvement by members of Pueblo society during research design (Figueroa 2015).
keywords: archaeological; archaeologists; archaeology; ethics; heritage; justice; mesa; people; project; pueblo; research; terrain; verde; wolverton
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id: ebl-70
author: Yamin‐Pasternak, Sveta
title: Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
date: 2010-08-25
words: 970
flesch: 47
summary: Inspired by the polarity of their own attitudes (Russian by birth, Valentina adored mush- rooms while her American Anglo-Saxon husband, Gordon, regarded them with abhorrence and fear), the ETHNOBIOLOGY LETTERS Book Review 27 Wassons carried out a broad ethnological survey, finding that a number of other world populations show a strong emotion toward mushrooms. The disposition of a culture where mushrooms are valued and widely consumed, such as the kind found throughout Eastern Europe, the Wassons had labeled as “mycophilia.”
keywords: letcher; magic; mushroom
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id: ebl-71
author: Wolverton, Steve
title: The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World
date: 2010-08-17
words: 2265
flesch: 44
summary: First, Anderson discards typical notions that politics can solve modern environmental problems by demonstrating that most governments are held hostage by huge natural resource and agricultural firms that are economically more powerful than many a nation. Environmental Ethics: Duties to and Values in the Natural World.
keywords: anderson; book; management; solidarity
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id: ebl-715
author: Anderson, Eugene N.
title: Birds of the Mongol Empire
date: 2016-09-02
words: 5129
flesch: 69
summary: “Mountain chicken” (uncertain; name is a general one for many game birds; illustration shows something that could be a koklass pheasant, Pucrasia macrolopha, or a hazel hen Tetrastes bonasia, or something similar. Polo (1927:93) makes many other references to hawking and to game birds.
keywords: 2016; birds; china; crane; empire; falconry; foods; great; hunting; medicine; mongolia; poison; polo
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id: ebl-716
author: Anderson, Eugene N.
title: The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. By David Wootton. 2015. Harper Collins, New York. 784 pp.
date: 2016-08-16
words: 2442
flesch: 62
summary: The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. Among new words that came later was “fact,” originally a term of medieval law, appropriated in the 17th century for one type of thing science is supposed to find.
keywords: china; new; science; west; wootton
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id: ebl-72
author: Butler, Virginia L.
title: Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases
date: 2010-08-17
words: 901
flesch: 47
summary: Where I have worked on the Northwest Coast, varying approaches to sampling classes of faunal remains (shellfish, fish, birds, mammals), which often are collected from different volumes, mesh size, and site context, make it difficult to even compare use of various vertebrates (e.g., fish vs. mammal taxa), much less allow for integrated approaches to faunal and floral analyses. They find that plant foods were part of everyday diet and animal foods were linked with higher status and ceremonial contexts.
keywords: chapters; plant; records
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id: ebl-725
author: Anderson, Myrdene
title: Runne-Beana: Dog Herds Ethnographer
date: 2016-12-31
words: 6339
flesch: 61
summary: Like most Saami dogs, Runne-Beana expected to accompany his consort everywhere (cf. Figure 1), and did not appreciate the Norwegian regulations prohib- iting dogs in the local store. In the following months, integrated into a larger sii’da herding group of four related families and many times that number of herding dogs, I concentrated on recognizing persons and let the dogs sort themselves out later.
keywords: anderson; beana; children; dog; dogs; family; herding; natal; reindeer; research; runne; saami; time
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id: ebl-726
author: Jernigan, Kevin
title: Beings of a Feather: Learning About the Lives of Birds with Amazonian Peoples
date: 2016-12-31
words: 4418
flesch: 57
summary: Abstract This article is a memoir of the author's fieldwork experiences studying traditional knowledge of bird species in the Peruvian Amazon. For certain local trees, they listed dozens of bird species that feed on the fruits.
keywords: aguaruna; behavior; birds; ethnobiology; example; jernigan; knowledge; people; research; species; university; work
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id: ebl-73
author: Welch, James R.
title: Urihi A: A Terra-Floresta Yanomami
date: 2010-08-15
words: 1089
flesch: 27
summary: The book begins with an introduction, followed by a brief presentation of the research methods and an overview of Yanomami ethnobotany, including wild plant knowledge, classification systems and nomenclature, and agricultural practices. The final chapter discusses Yanomami ethnobotany in the context of other publications on ethnobotany in Amazonia.
keywords: authors; knowledge; plants; yanomami
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id: ebl-738
author: Anderson, Myrdene
title: A Note on the Montessori of Ethnobiology, Hal Conklin
date: 2016-12-31
words: 2122
flesch: 58
summary: A Note on the Montessori of Ethnobiology, Hal Conklin Anderson. 2016. No doubt endowed with more than the ordinary five senses, even more than seven plus-or- A Note on the Montessori of Ethnobiology, Hal Conklin Myrdene Anderson 1* 1 Department of Anthropology and Program in Linguistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. * myanders@purdue.edu Received July 3, 2016 OPEN ACCESS Accepted September 14, 2016 DOI 10.14237/ebl.7.2.2016.738
keywords: color; conklin; ethnobiology; hal; paper; time
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id: ebl-74
author: Anderson, E. N.
title: Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South
date: 2010-08-04
words: 1390
flesch: 65
summary: Jays, hawks, night birds (pauraques in the Bacabs, whippoorwills in the South), doves, large flycatchers, and other birds also figure in both the Bacab rituals and the southern Native religious and healing beliefs. Many ideas concern owls and other night birds, which are not always bad omens.
keywords: birds; book; century; krech; south
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id: ebl-740
author: Hidayati, Syafitri; Abdul Ghani, Bibi Aminah; Giridharan, Beena; Hassan, Mohd Zafri; Franco, F. Merlin
title: Using Ethnotaxonomy to Assess Traditional Knowledge and Language Vitality: A Case Study with the Vaie People of Sarawak, Malaysia
date: 2018-04-25
words: 7484
flesch: 60
summary: (4) My proficiency in Vaie language is*… (5) My proficiency in (L2) is*… *Note that questions 4 and 5 used a five point Likert scale: very poor (1), poor (2), moderate (3), good (4), and very good (5). a Participant, b Vaie language, c Malay language,*part-time fishermen.
keywords: community; ethnobiology; fish; fishes; fresh; knowledge; language; malaysia; njen; participants; people; research; vaie; vitality
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id: ebl-75
author: Barbas-Rhoden, Laura
title: Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food
date: 2010-08-04
words: 812
flesch: 39
summary: These chapters are thorough without attempting to be tediously exhaustive, and they broadly contextualize food use in economic and cultural history of specific practices related to food as medicine. Finally, the introduction contextualizes food use in cultural context and addresses the “social organization of eating” (42).
keywords: etkin; food
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id: ebl-76
author: Rashford, John
title: Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture
date: 2010-08-03
words: 1037
flesch: 53
summary: The index, in particular, will make this book a valuable resource for all who are interested in Jamaican foods and related subjects, and in the relationship between food and the making of our present world system. August 3 rd 2010 © 2010 Society of Ethnobiology Barry Higman, distinguished historian and anthro- pologist of the Caribbean, has produced what is to date the most authoritative account of the history, biology, and culture of Jamaican food.
keywords: food; higman; jamaica
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id: ebl-77
author: Wolverton, Steve
title: Quantitative Paleozoology
date: 2010-08-03
words: 1782
flesch: 44
summary: The issue with these kinds of derived units can be summarized as follows: if paleozoological abundance data are at best ordinal scale, meaning that it might only be possible to determine that taxon A was more or less abundant in ETHNOBIOLOGY LETTERS Book Review 10 the assemblage than taxon B, and if that resolution is clearly portrayed through the use of NISP, then why would the analyst derive a ratio-level variable of tissue weight from NISP? In summary, Lyman‟s book is not a litany of techniques for paleozoological quantification.
keywords: book; chapter; lyman; nisp; taxonomic
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id: ebl-777
author: Doyle, Brian Joseph; Asiala, Caroline Michael; Fernández, Diana Margot
title: Relative Importance and Knowledge Distribution of Medicinal Plants in a Kichwa Community in the Ecuadorian Amazon
date: 2017-01-16
words: 9608
flesch: 69
summary: We interviewed 18 men and 18 women between 9 and 74 years old in San José de Payamino, an indigenous community of the Kichwa ethnicity in the Ecuadorian Amazon, to determine if there are gender or age-associated differences in medicinal plant knowledge among the Payamino people and to identify the most important species from a sample of medicinal plants. Since we were unable to demonstrate a difference in medicinal plant knowledge between sexes, it is unclear as to how men and women might manage forest resources differently based on their respective knowledge of medicinal plants.
keywords: e n; knowledge; medicinal; n g; o n; o p; p e; payamino; plants; use
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id: ebl-78
author: Anderson, E. N.
title: Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
date: 2010-08-03
words: 881
flesch: 59
summary: Anglo-American planters wanted to grow rice, but did not know how; they imported slaves from the parts of West Africa where native rice, Oryza glaberrima, was domesticated and grown. The survival of Gullah culture in the face of centuries of slavery, racism and oppression is astonishing.
keywords: african; ethnobiology; rice
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id: ebl-79
author: Anderson, E. N.
title: Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale and Challenged the Order of Nature
date: 2010-08-03
words: 1632
flesch: 64
summary: One Samuel Judd, dealer in whale oil, tried to get around a new law for inspecting fish oil, and thus avoid paying a hefty fee, by claiming that whales are not fish. Lee was a tanner; tanners used much fish oil (not usually whale oil) in working hides.
keywords: fish; new; oil; whale
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id: ebl-794
author: Kuzivanova, Valeria; Davidson-Hunt, Iain J.
title: Biocultural Design: Harvesting Manomin with Wabaseemoong Independent Nations
date: 2017-04-19
words: 6516
flesch: 61
summary: G u id in g c o o rd in a te s E x p la n a ti o n i n t h e c o n te x t o f th is p ro je ct R e fe re n ce s D e si g n b ri e f a t th e s ta rt o f th e p ro je ct A d e si g n b ri e f — a t w o -p a g e d o cu m e n t p ro v id e d b y a c o m m u n it y r e p re se n ta ti v e i n N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 3 — e st a b li sh e d t h e c o n te xt o f th e s tu d y , p re li m in a ry r e se a rc h o b je cti v e s, r e st o ra ti o n o p - ti o n s, a n d p o te n ti a l fu tu re u se s o f m a n o m in . T h e n , th ro u g h o u t th is p ro je ct , p a rti ci p a n ts w o rk e d i n t e a m s/ su b te a m s a n d p la y e d d iff e re n t ro le s: te a ch e rs f o cu se d o n t h e i n v o lv e m e n t o f st u d e n ts ; w il d r ic e c a m p p a rti ci p a n ts t e st e d a n d p ro v id - e d a f e e d b a ck o n t h e p ro to ty p e f o r a w il d r ic e c a m p ; a d u lt s, E ld e rs , a n d y o u n g p e o p le s h a re d th e ir k n o w le d g e a n d p e rs p e cti v e s o n t h e r e st o ra ti o n p ro ce ss .
keywords: d e; e n; e o; e p; e s; g e; h e; n d; n s; n t; o n; t e; w e
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id: ebl-8
author: Ramenzoni, Victoria C.
title: Endenese Fisheries: Exploratory Findings on Environmental Perceptions, Fish Effort, and Overfishing in Eastern Indonesia
date: 2013-03-08
words: 7302
flesch: 55
summary: There is a dearth of knowledge on the way local communities use and rep- resent the marine ecosystem (Munasik et al. 2011) and a wide propensity to blame local fishermen for the current state of environmental degradation. Over the last decades, scholars have noted that fishery managers and government officers often work under the assumption that maximization and self- interest are the main motivations behind the alloca- tion of fishing effort (Allison and Ellis 2001; Cordell 1974; Perry et al. 2003).
keywords: decision; effort; ende; endenese; environmental; fisheries; fishermen; fishing; indonesia; knowledge; luck; making; management; marine; press; research; uncertainty; university
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id: ebl-80
author: Anderson, E. N.
title: Material Choices: Refashioning Bast and Leaf Fibers in Asia and the Pacific
date: 2010-08-03
words: 566
flesch: 57
summary: Textile lovers will already be familiar with the beauty of Japanese and other mainstream textile art, but the work from the Benuaq and from Fais may come as a surprise, and, if so, prepare to be literally stunned. Also specialized is the exquisite banana and hibiscus fiber art of Fais Island, Micronesia, a tiny speck with a population of some 300.
keywords: art; work
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id: ebl-832
author: Dombrosky, Jonathan
title: Applied Zooarchaeology: Five Case Studies. Steve Wolverton, Lisa Nagaoka, and Torben C. Rick. 2016. Eliot Werner Publications, Clinton Corners, NY. 130 pp.
date: 2016-12-29
words: 1219
flesch: 52
summary: Ethnobiology Letters 7(1):104–105 104 Reviews An honest, upfront consideration of data quality is necessary if (zoo)archaeological data are to have any impact on conservation/restoration science—a point that has received wide exposure in the broader scientific literature (see Boivin et al. 2016; The shamelessness of my positive review derives from three excellent characteristics of this book: it is concise, (zoo)archaeological data quality is a recurrent theme, and it serves as a guide for achieving interdis- ciplinary research.
keywords: book; data; research; zooarchaeology
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id: ebl-834
author: Elias, Marlène; Hummel, Susan S; Basnett, Bimbika S; Colfer, Carol J.P.
title: Gender Bias Affects Forests Worldwide
date: 2017-04-19
words: 2590
flesch: 57
summary: The division of labor results in gender specialization in the collection of forest products, with variations in gender roles across regions. This division of labor influences women’s and men’s familiarity with, valuation of, and priorities for forest products (Sunderland et al. 2014).
keywords: access; elias; forest; gender; trees; women
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id: ebl-84
author: Zent, Egleé L.
title: African Ethnobotany in the Americas
date: 2013-10-13
words: 2687
flesch: 40
summary: This compendium of studies makes an explosive statement against decontextualized, ahistorical research that disregards African plants and people in the overall current configuration of the Americas. Her data indicate a stronger botanical knowledge of West African plants in the sugar cultivation area whereas the Mediterranean-derived lore appears more widespread in both areas and is slightly higher in the tobacco zone.
keywords: adobe; americas; authors; book; knowledge; people; plants; rice; species; use
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id: ebl-840
author: Anderson, Eugene N.
title: Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 6, Biology and Biological Technology. Part IV: Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach. By Georges Métailié. Translated by Janet Lloyd. 2015. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 748 pp.
date: 2017-05-31
words: 1966
flesch: 58
summary: He confines his attention to premodern China— Georges Métailié’s long-awaited monograph on the history of Chinese plant science is now available at last. Chinese plant knowledge before that date was very comparable to Europe’s: it consisted of a great deal of empirical knowledge—factual or fantasy— recorded in long herbals that copied extensively from sources going back to ancient times (Theophrastus in Europe, Han Dynasty writers in China).
keywords: china; chinese; knowledge; métailié; science
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id: ebl-861
author: Welch, James R.; Marston, John M.; Olson, Elizabeth A.
title: Plurality in Ethnobiology: A Look Towards 2017
date: 2016-12-30
words: 545
flesch: 30
summary: Against this backdrop, we close this issue of Ethnobiology Letters with our reaffirmation of the importance of all forms of diversity in this journal, our academic field, and the environmental and human contexts we study. These kinds of diversity are increasingly well-represented in Ethnobiology Letters and the Society of Ethnobiology’s other publications, Journal of Ethnobiology and Contributions in Ethnobiology.
keywords: diversity; ethnobiology
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id: ebl-882
author: Levin, Maureece Jacqueline
title: Archaeobotanical Approaches in the Study of Food Production in Remote Oceania
date: 2017-11-08
words: 2430
flesch: 53
summary: Geographical Setting At a basic level, Remote Oceania is the region of the Pacific Islands that was settled by Austronesian- speaking peoples, beginning some three to four millennia ago, and their descendants. Analytical Techniques While in much of the world, agricultural systems rely on domesticated cereals, Remote Oceania is a major Introduction Food production is a major topic of archaeological and anthropological research in the region known as the Remote Pacific (eastern Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia).
keywords: islands; journal; new; oceania; pacific; region; remote
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id: ebl-900
author: Forth, Gregory
title: ‘Fish’ and ‘Non-Fish’ in Lio and Nage: Folk-Intermediates and Folk-Generics in the Fish Classification of Two Eastern Indonesian Peoples
date: 2017-07-27
words: 5642
flesch: 57
summary: Ethnobiology Letters 8(1):61–69 62 Research Communications categories that have usually been treated as the basic units of any system of folk taxonomy. Obtained during three visits to Flores between 2014 and 2016, information of Lio fish classification was recorded in the districts of Mego and Paga, in the easternmost part of the Lio region, and derives mostly from conversations with Lio residents in the conjoined Mego settlements of Nua Lolo and Léke Ba’i and in the south coastal villages of Wara, Ma’u Lo’o, and Wolo Wiro. Table 1 List of Lio freshwater fish generics identified as Ika. Forth 2017.
keywords: classification; fish; folk; forth; freshwater; generics; ika; lio; mbo; nage; nake; names; table
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id: ebl-911
author: Stiegler, Christopher David
title: Echinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild History. Edited by Kelly Kindscher. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland. 238 pp.
date: 2017-05-31
words: 1135
flesch: 29
summary: This book represents a benchmark volume committed to the importance of Echinacea conservation. It is an accumulation of scientific discoveries and wisdom aimed to promote understanding of Echinacea conservation, bioactivity, and cultural relevance.
keywords: echinacea; kindscher; knowledge
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id: ebl-92
author: La Point, Thomas W.
title: River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado
date: 2013-11-04
words: 3175
flesch: 63
summary: The book carries a serious warning about how we are presently using Colorado River water (abusing, actually) and what the root cause is of this disturbing waste of a precious resource. The U.S. subsidies for irrigating range land in the west, with Colorado River water, are huge.
keywords: book; canyon; colorado; davis; powell; river; trip; water
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id: ebl-935
author: Monteban, Madalena
title: Maternal Knowledge and Use of Galactagogues in Andean Communities of Cusco, Peru
date: 2017-09-19
words: 5707
flesch: 56
summary: The Galactagogues Used by Indian Tribal Communi- ties to Overcome Poor Lactation. Having soups or hot drinks with the expectation of increasing milk production could indicate that women attribute hypogalactia to exposure to dry or cold elements.
keywords: andean; breastfeeding; child; galactagogues; hak’achu; health; journal; knowledge; milk; mothers; production; research; soup; use; women
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id: ebl-941
author: Hernández, Mariana Yazzur; Macario, Pedro Antonio; López, Jorge Omar
title: Traditional Agroforestry Systems and Food Supply under the Food Sovereignty Approach
date: 2017-12-28
words: 9379
flesch: 51
summary: The last indicator considers participation in decision-making and peasant social organization related to food production, consumption, and commercialization (Ortega-Cerda and Rivera-Ferre 2010). In this sense, food production is a network type system as it relies on several systems (Rosado 2012).
keywords: agroforestry; calakmul; campeche; communications; communities; community; consumption; de la; del; et al; ethnobiology; families; food; gardens; hernandez; home; letters; mexico; milpa; origin; production; research; systems
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id: ebl-952
author: Narchi, Nemer E.
title: Nature’s Pharmacopoeia: A World of Medicinal Plants. By Dan Choffnes. 2016. Columbia University Press, New York, NY. 332 pp.
date: 2017-07-30
words: 1177
flesch: 49
summary: One theme that is present among the chapters dealing with psychotropic plants, and a thing that I deeply appreciate, is the critical treatment given to the demonization of these sorts of plants and substances. Other chapters cover a) concepts of ethnomedicine, b) the regulation of drugs, c) the action of medicinal plants, d) the action of medicinal plants on the nervous system, e) a chapter on popular herbs, and finally, f) a chapter on the future of medicinal plants where the author makes the case for a promising future for ethnopharmacology as a source of drugs, drug precursors, and as an option for fair benefit sharing among local and global actors.
keywords: book; chapter; plants; systems
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id: ebl-980
author: French, Katherine E.
title: Plant-Based Solutions to Global Livestock Anthelmintic Resistance
date: 2018-06-13
words: 6929
flesch: 54
summary: One solution would either be to actively maintain this phytochemical database by allowing users to upload data, or to create a new open-access database specifically for anthelmintic plants. Perhaps one of the most surprising aspects of anthelmintic plants is that they are often common (Figure 2).
keywords: anthelmintic; chemical; control; et al; ethnobiology; example; french; journal; livestock; metabolites; nematodes; new; parasites; parasitology; perspec; plants; research; resistance; secondary
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