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ETHNOBIOLOGY LETTERS                                                                                                                    Book Review 
 

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A Reply to van der Voort’s Response to Welch’s Review of “Urihi A: A Terra‐
Floresta Yanomami” 
Bruce Albert and William Milliken with Gale Goodwin Gomez. São Paulo: Instituto Socioambiental, 2009. 207 pp., 

illustrations, tables, bibliography, appendices, index. Paperback ISBN: 978‐85‐85994‐72‐3. 

 

By James R. Welch
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Reviewer Address:

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 Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, welch@ensp.fiocruz.br  

 
Received: January 26

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Published: February 6
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I wish to thank Hein van der Voort for his positive 
comment regarding the ethnobotanical contents of my 
review of “Urihi A: A Terra-Floresta Yanomami” 
(Ethnobiology Letters 2010, 1:18-19). I also would like to 
affirm that his recent response (Ethnobiology Letters 
2010, 1:39) includes other relevant information about 
the book. In particular, I agree it is useful to mention 
that this Portuguese language book is an extensively 
revised and updated edition of a book previously 
published in English. I appreciate his effort to make 
that information known. 

However, I take issue with his main argument that 
I failed to mention a third author, Gale Goodwin 
Gomez. It is factually incorrect to identify Gomez as 
co-author and unwarranted to suggest that my 
“oversight” should not be excused. Although the 
allocation of authorship is a nuanced issue for authors, 
in this case the authors identified Gomez’s contribution 
as collaboration and not authorship. The distinction is 
clearly presented on the copyright page of the book, 
where Bruce Albert and William Milliken are listed as 
authors and Gomez is listed separately as a collaborator 
(“colaboração” in Portuguese).  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. This is true 
even if the collaboration was very important, as I have 
every reason to believe was the case in this example.