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ETHNOBIOLOGY LETTERS                                                                                                                    Book Review 
 

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A 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 Hein van der Voort1 

 
Reviewer Address: 1 Museu Goeldi, Belém 

 
Received: December14th 2010                                  Volume 1:39 
Published: December 15th 2010                       © 2010 Society of Ethnobiology 
 
The review by James R. Welch of the book Urihi a: a 
terra-floresta Yanomami (Ethnobiology Letters 2010, 1:18-
19) is entirely justified in its positive tone.  It ac-
knowledges the excellent anthropological and biological 
work among the Yanomami by its two main authors. 
Unfortunately, the reviewer has overlooked the 
existence and contribution of a third author without 
whom the essential linguistic component of the work 
would not have been possible.  The linguist is classified 
as a "with" author, but her name is appropriately 
mentioned on the cover and on the title page of the 
book and forms an integral part of its bibliographical 
description. Another aspect of the book that went 
unnoticed is the fact that it is a revised and translated 
version of a Kew Gardens publication in English. The 
reviewer might be excused for the latter oversight, 
since this English version from 1999 is mentioned 
rather inconspicuously on the bibliographical page (4) 
of the Portuguese version.  On the table in front of me 
are two largely identical books on the ethnobiological 
classification of the environment of the Yanomami. 
The relevant bibliographical references are: 

Bruce Albert and William Milliken, com a colaboração 
de Gale Goodwin Gomez. 2009. Urihi a: a terra-floresta 
Yanomami. Instituto Socioambiental, São Paulo. ISBN 
978-85-85994-72-3. 
 
William Milliken and Bruce Albert with Gale Goodwin 
Gomez, illustrations by Jane Rutherford. 1999. 
Yanomami: A Forest People. The Royal Botanic Gardens, 
Kew. ISBN 1-900347-73-3.