ebl: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called ebl.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Species; Knowledge; Book; Conservation; Plants; Food; Use; People; Plant; Chapter; Community; Communities; Birds; Remains; Brazil; Letters; Management; Data; Trees; Fish; Maize; Human; Science; Folk; Authors; Hunting; Pierotti; Ecology; Ethics; Studies; Forest; Children; Anderson; World; Women; America; Water; Uses; Animals; Languages; Dogs; Analysis; Places; Perspectives; Agriculture; Project; Health; North; Society; Island; Time; Language; Fire; Fruit; Nage; Bone; Pacific; History; Access; California; Animal; Rice; Archaeology; Honey; Review; Work; Argentina; Tree; Harvest; Agroforestry; Diversity; Yanomami; Students; Taxonomy; Livestock; Mesa; Cotton; Groups; Contamination; Period; Rio; Huni; Whale; Essay; Memory; Colonial; Cosminsky; Russian; Arapaho; Castro; Letcher; Design

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• Fonio (Digitaria exilis (Kippist) Stapf): A Socially Embedded Cereal for Food and Nutrition Security in Senegal by Diop, Baye Magatte; Gueye, Mame Codou; Agbangba, Codjo Emile; Cisse, Ndiaga; Deu, Monique; Diack, Omar; Fofana, Amadou; Kane, Ndjido Ardo; Ndir, Khadidiatou Ndoye; Ndoye, Ibrahima; Ngom, Ablaye; Leclerc, Christian; Piquet, Marie; Vigouroux, Yves; Zekraoui, Leila; Billot, Claire; Barnaud, Adeline (2018) - Ethnobiology Le ers 9(2):150–165 160 Research Communica ons most widespread means of acquiring fonio seed. Fonio (Digitaria exilis (Kippist) Stapf): A Socially Embedded Cereal for Food and Nutrition Security in Senegal Diop et al. 2018. Keywords: agriculture; casamance; crop; cultivation; diop; ethnobiology; farmers; figure; fonio; food; groundnut; ons; oriental; research; seed; senegal; species; sénégal; villages; women
• An Evaluation of the Contemporary Uses and Cultural Significance of Mammals in Mexico by Ávila Nájera, Dulce María; Naranjo, Eduardo J; Tigar, Barbara Jane; Villarreal, Oscar Agustin; Mendoza, Germán David (2018) - The loca on of the 17 Mexican federal states (labels 1–17) that had records for cultural uses of mammals used to calculate Cultural Value Indices (CVIs) for the 82 species. MEPHITIDAE Conepatus leuconotus 3 1.64 Conepatus semistriatus P 34 1.50 Conetaptus spp 2 1.08 Mephi s macroura spp 3 1.09 Mephi s spp 7 5.02 Spilogale gracilis 2 0.66 Spilogale putorius 3 1.50 Spilogale pygmaea R 93 1.50 FAMILY MUSTELIDAE   Eira barbara R 3 2.17 Galic s vi ata E 1 0.34 Table 1 Taxonomic classifica on of wild mammal species with their na onal conserva on status according to the NOM‐ 059‐SEMARNAT‐2010 (SEMARNAT 2010) Keywords: alves; conservation; cvi; ethnobiology; family; mammals; mexico; number; research; species; total; uses; wildlife
• Traditional Techniques for the Management of Cactaceae in the Americas: The Relationship between Use and Conservation by Pedrosa, Kamila Marques; Lucena, Camila Marques; Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva; Lopes, Sérgio de Faria (2018) - In this way, local populations perform management techniques with cacti that preserve desirable (e.g., sweet, fleshy, and large fruits, large cladodes and rackets, fast growth) and/or eliminate undesirable phenotypes (e.g., cacti that do not have parts useful to the local population) depending on the particular edapho-climatic conditions of a given region (Blancas et al. 2010; Casas et al. 2006; 2017; Lucena et al. 2015). The fruits of cacti are used in human food and in the manufacture of sweets (Lucena et al. 2015), with cladodes and rackets being used for animal fodder (Figure 2). Keywords: brazil; cactaceae; cacti; casas; casas et; et al; lucena; management; species
• Outline of an Anthropological Contribution to the Study of Snake Venom Variability: The Case of Echis sp. Envenomation by Musch, Tilman (2014) - 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. Key Words: snake venom, snakebites, ethnozoology, ethnomedicine, Echis leucogaster, Niger mailto:Tilman.Musch@uni.bayreuth.de 25 Research Communication The present research seeks to contribute to the above mentioned method of observing clinically in order to study venom variability. Keywords: chippaux; echis; envenomation; heart; leucogaster; research; snake; species; variability; venom
• Ethnobotanical Study in Martinique of the Species Behind the Local Plant Name Bwa Kaka by Drane, Elodie; Feliot-Rippeault, Marie; Smith-Ravin, Juliette; François-Haugrin, Odile (2018) - It is reported in the literature as being highly sought a er by the local popula on but there is a lack of informa on about plant species behind the denomina on. However, a clarification of the lexicogenic matrices that define the vernacular denomination of plant species offers elements of explanation. Keywords: alliacea; antilles; bwa; bwa kaka; caribbean; des; diseases; interviewees; kaka; knowledge; martinique; people; plant; research; species; survey; triste; uses
• Nutritional Properties of Native Plants and Traditional Foods from the Central United States by Kindscher, Kelly; Martin, Leanne; Corbett, Steve; Lafond, David (2018) - Food plants of the Sonoran Desert. Native Americans relied on wild plant foods for millennia prior to the development of the Eastern Agricultural Complex around 1800 BCE and cultivated the seed crops, lambsquarters and marsh elder, as well as sunflowers, squash, little barley, and erect knotweed (Gremillion 2004; Smith and Yarnell 2009). Keywords: fiber; food; fruits; kindscher; leaves; n d; plant; protein; roots; seeds; species; total; values
• Archaeology and Biogeography of the Western Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata) in the Puget Sound Region by Fisher, Jacob (2018) - Ethnobiology Le ers 9(2):180–188 186 Research Communica ons Washington turtle populations, noting the lucrative market in 1890s San Francisco. 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. Keywords: california; marmorata; north; pond; populations; puget; record; region; sound; species; specimens; turtle; washington; western
• We Probably Thought That Would Be True: Perceiving Complex Emotional States in Nonhumans by Pierotti, Raymond; Annett, Cynthia (2014) - 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). Braithwaite, a Professor of Fisheries at Penn State, gives her (2010) book the relatively limp title, Do Fish Feel Pain? Keywords: animals; behavior; female; fish; grief; humans; king; pain; pierotti; scientists; species
• Bumblebee Honey in the Nordic Countries by Svanberg, Ingvar; Berggren, Åsa (2018) - An insignificant but interesting product is “bumblebee honey”, the nectar that the bumblebees store in their nests, which has been collected by children in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. This study is focused on the hunt for and use of bumblebee honey; its approach is ethnobiological (Anderson 2011). Keywords: bumblebee; bumblebee honey; children; countries; ethnobiology; folk; honey; nectar; nests; species; svanberg; sweden; ulma; use
• Injuries Caused by Freshwater Stingrays in the Western Amazon: Folk Medicine and Beliefs by Da Silva, Greiciane Amorim; Poscai, Aline Nayara; Casas, André Luis da Silva (2020) - In another study, Haddad et al. (2013), stated that the treatment of wounds caused by freshwater stingrays is associated with various folk remedies, superstitions, and legends. Analyses Descriptive analysis of freshwater stingray accidents was carried out, in which the frequency distribution (absolute and relative) were analyzed according to gender, activity, seasonality, period of the accident, search for medical care, injury site, symptoms, sequel, locality, treatment, type of treatment, and medicinal plants. Keywords: accidents; brazil; et al; freshwater; haddad; injuries; neto; plants; silva; species; stingrays; use
• Gathering “Mouse Roots,” Among the Naukan and Chukchi of the Russian Far East by Jernigan, Kevin; Belichenko, Olga; Kolosova, Valeria; Orr, Darlene; Pupynina, Maria (2019) - Many of the participants of both groups, who no longer gather mouse roots, described doing so when they were younger, with their parents or grandparents. These designations Figure 2 High-ground tundra where people search for “mouse roots,” with the village of Neshkan in the background. Keywords: alaska; arctic; chukchi; et al; ethnobiology; gathering; jernigan; mouse; naukan; participants; people; research; roots; species
• Medicinal Plants of Tecopatlán, Jalisco, Mexico: Description of the Uses and Environmental Availability by Gutiérrez Alonso, Adrian; Olson, Elizabeth Anne; Cevallos Espinosa, Judith; Rosales Adame, Jesús Juan (2020) - 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; zones
• Learning about Extraordinary Beings: Native Stories and Real Birds by Pierotti, Raymond (2020) - I also thank Violet Cordova (Apache) and Niigaan Sinclair (Anishinaabe) for providing wonderful accounts of important stories. Other stories I recount may only go back several hundred or a few thousand years, but they clearly predate the knowledge and understanding of the Western scientific tradition, and the existence of “nations” of any kind on any continent. Keywords: birds; humans; new; peoples; pierotti; press; ravens; species; stories; story; traditions; university
• A Quantitative Method for Evaluating Contemporary Cultural Uses of Birds: A Case Study from Mexico by Ávila-Nájera, Dulce María; Tigar, Barbara J.; Zavala-Sánchez, Zaira; Zetina-Cordoba, Pedro; Serna-Lagunes, Ricardo (2020) - i LC 4 4 1.52 Megascops guatemalae i LC 1 1 0.48 Megascops barbarus E VU 1 1 0.48 Megascops cooperi P LC 1 1 0.48 Pulsatrix perspicillata T LC 1 1 0.29 Bubo virginianus i LC 2 3 1.54 Glaucidium brasilianum i LC 7 8 4.25 Athene cunicularia i LC 1 1 0.74 Strix virgata i LC 3 3 1.18 Strix fulvescens T LC 1 1 0.74 Aegolius ridgwayi E LC 1 1 0.74 TROGONIFORMES Trogonidae Pharomachrus mocinno E NT 3 3 1.18 Trogon caligatus i LC 2 2 0.70 Trogon mexicanus 1 1 0.30 Pseudastur albicollis P LC 1 1 0.55 Buteo jamaicensis i LC 3 3 1.33 Keywords: 11(2):5–19; birds; conservation; cvi; cvis; et al; ethnobiology; letters; mexico; number; nájera; page; records; research; species; status; uses; ávila
• Wildlife Hunting and Utilization in Ulu Baleh, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo by Cheok Ka Yi, Melynda; Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan (2020) - Several transport types (boat, car, and motorcycle) were used, incorporated with walking for several hours after reaching hunting areas. Hunting area was assessed from the interviewees based on maps, distance, and time taken on average for the hunters during their trips. Keywords: area; azlan; baleh; communities; hunting; logging; mohd; sarawak; species; ulu; usd; wildlife
• Humans, Dolphins, and Porpoises: Investigations at the Par-Tee Site, Seaside, Oregon, AD 100–800 by Loiselle, Hope (2020) - 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: cetaceans; dolphin; et al; hunting; oregon; par; porpoise; remains; site; species; tee
• Does Climatic Seasonality of the Caatinga Influence the Composition of the Free lists of Medicinal Plants? A Case Study by Lins Neto, Ernani Machado de Freitas; Vieira dos Santos, Silvana; Soares Ferreira Júnior, Washington (2021) - 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; salience; season; species; use; values
• Reclaiming Native Hawaiian Knowledge Represented in Bird Taxonomies by Gomes, Noah (2020) - I have refrained from adding glottal stops (ʻokina) and macrons (kahakō) to Teauotalani’s given bird names. Ibarra et al. (2020:90, 95) did an extensive study of the use of onomatopoeia in bird names around the world. Keywords: birds; categories; category; ethnobiology; folk; hawaiian; hawaiʻi; malo; manu; maoli; names; naming; nomenclature; perkins; species; taxonomies; taxonomy; teauotalani
• Ethnoichthyology of Fishing Communities in the Lower Valley of Ouémé in Benin, West Africa by Djidohokpin, Gildas; Sossoukpè, Edmond; Adandé, Richard ; Voudounnou , Juste V.; Fiogbé, Emile D.; Haour, Anne (2020) - 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
• Ranking Tool Created for Medicinal Plants at Risk of Being Overharvested in the Wild by Castle, Lisa Marie; Leopold, Susan; Craft, Rachel; Kindscher, Kelly (2014) - 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
• Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters: Integrating Archaeology and Ecology of the Northeast Pacific by Pierotti, Ray (2013) - 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
• Host Plants Association with Longhorn Beetles of Food Value: Traditional Knowledge of the Guaraní as Cultural Identity Keepers by Araujo, Jorge Justino; Keller, Héctor Alejandro; Hilgert, Norma Inés (2021) - Once the identification of Figure 1 Study area with Guaraní communities visited in orange circles. In remote times the ancestral tree feller (longhorn beetle) lived in the way we, Guaraní people, live today. Keywords: argentina; beetles; ethnobiology; food; guaraní; host; insects; knowledge; larvae; longhorn; management; methods; misiones; plants; practices; species; trees
• The Flora of Azulejos in Maranhão, Brazil by Menezes, Leandro; Ewerton, Alícia; Garcia, Amanda; Dominici, Susana; Fernandes, Fabiane; Campos, Lívia Flávia; Marinho, Lucas (2021) - 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: april; azulejos; brazil; elements; fig; flora; illustrations; luís; maranhão; plants; portugal; species; são
• Traditional Knowledge of Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in the Peruvian Amazon by Delgado, Cesar; Mejía, Kember; Rasmussen, Claus; Romero, Rosa (2023) - Based on the frequency of honey use in the treatment of conditions related to the airways, reproductive system, and fertility, it is recommended to validate those claims by scientific studies. Cultural Uses We have recorded a total number of fourteen human health conditions that are treated with pure honey or honey mixed with other products from the bee colonies or various plant extracts (Table 2). Keywords: bees; colony; communities; et al; ethnobiology; honey; melipona; rasmussen; research; species; stingless; use
• Trekking the Amazon with Love and Care by Zent, Eglee; Zent, Stanford; Jtute, Lojta ; Jtitekyo, Awelajlu; Jtute, Jkatalila̧ ; Ijtö, Lobįko ; Jkwayo, Ilę ; Yaluja, Maliela ; Juae, Iva ; Jono, Noe; Molö, Alejadro ; Amikoja, Aula; Melomaja, Abeto ; Aubojkyo, Alabala; Bowijte, Kyabo; Yewi, Awaïkï; Yewi, Jani-Yewi ; Jtitekyo, Ba̧lejko; Jkai; Jtute, Jtobá; Yolo, Lila; Uliejteja, Ajti̧ta; Bowijte, Jtujkaybojlae; Jtute, Ulijkule; Jlawi, Jkwajkya; Bowijte, Late (2022) - This paper explores ethical categories under jkyo jkwainï and has the naïve goals of (1) helping to build bridges between disciplines and (2) highlighting the potential of localized biocultural conservation approaches that recognize the vital roles and relationships with other-than-human persons in human lives and habitats. Zent et al. 2022. Keywords: biocultural; care; conservation; ethnobiology; human; jkyo; jotï; letters; life; love; persons; perspectives; species; zent; zent et
• Fisher Ethnotaxonomy for Elasmobranchs Captured Along the Brazilian Amazon Coast by 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 (2023) - 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: 2022; body; brazil; brazilian; cação; coast; coelho; et al; ethnobiology; ethnotaxonomy; fishers; maranhão; names; raia; ray; research; shark; species; table
• Rooted in the Mangrove Landscape: Children and their Ethnoichthyological Knowledge as Sentinels for Biodiversity Loss in Northern Guinea-Bissau by Keleman, Pieter-Jan; Padrão Temudo, Marina; Moutinho Sá, Rui (2023) - 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. LC Mugil bananensis (Pellegrin, 1927) LC Lagocephalus laevigatus (Linnaeus, 1766) LC Ilisha africana (Bloch, 1795) LC Table 2 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
• Let it Grow (Back): A Call for the Conservation of Secondary Forests as Medicinal Plant Habitat by Shebitz, Daniela J. ; Agnew, Lindsey Page; Kerns, Steven; Oviedo, Angela ; Ha, Juyoung (2023) - 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. Recent research, however, has shown that secondary forests in Costa Rica are re-cleared within 20 years, before they have accumulated the previously lost biomass and biodiversity. Keywords: biodiversity; communities; community; conservation; costa; deforestation; ecosystem; et al; forests; pes; plants; rica; services; shebitz; species; use
• Using Indigenous Science to Protect Wetlands: The Swinomish Tribe’s Wetland Cultural Assessment by Mitchell, Todd A.; Casper, Nicole J.; Logan, Lindsay Thomason; Colclazier, Erin M.; Mitchell, Karen J. R. (2025) - Wetlands Values: Concepts and Methods for Wetland Evaluation. The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community has developed a cultural module for use in conjunction with standard physical wetland assessment approaches to incorporate Tribal cultural values and functions in wetland rating. Keywords: cultural; m o; plant; species; swinomish; wetland
• Local Ecological Knowledge of the Whitemouth Croaker, Micropologias furneri among the Caiçaras in the Sepetiba Bay, SE Brazil by Morado, Claudio N.; Andrade-Tubino, Magda F. de; Pinto, Benjamin C. T.; Araújo, Francisco G. (2024) - These interconnected words exhibit a higher degree of similarity and collectively represent specific aspects or contexts related to factors associated with Whitemouth croaker fishing in Sepetiba Bay. What is the ideal condition for Whitemouth croaker to migrate? Keywords: bay; croaker; da madeira; de guaratiba; fisher; fishing; guaratiba; ilha; ilha da; madeira; pedra; pedra de; sepetiba; species; whitemouth; years
• Perceptions of the Titicaca Grebe (Rollandia microptera) in a Peruvian Aymara Fishing Village by Quispe, Jhazel ; Villar, Daniel; Zapana, Joel; Thomsen, Bastian; Gosler, Andrew G. (2023) - The Titicaca Grebe is found across the entire Lake Titicaca watershed. The Titicaca Grebe (Rollandia microptera Gould) is a flightless endemic found in the Lake Titicaca watershed of Peru and Bolivia (Fjeldså 2004), listed as Endangered (EN) in the IUCN RedList (BirdLife International 2020). Keywords: conservation; et al; fishers; grebe; karana; lake; lake titicaca; research; species; titicaca; titicaca grebe
• Enduring Legacies of Agriculture: Long-term Vegetation Impacts of Ancestral Menominee Agriculture, Wisconsin, USA by McLeester, Madeleine; Anastasio, Alison E.; Grignon, Jeff (2023) - Central to this study, the dozens of confirmed ancestral Menominee raised agriculture bed sites and numerous suspected past agricultural sites at the Menominee Reservation (Overstreet and Grignon 2021) provide a unique opportunity to explore whether or not past Menominee agricultural practices have lasting ecological impacts. Results obtained from observational data demonstrate that vegetation differences are evident between agricultural beds and off-bed cultural spaces; however, the impacts varied at each location. Keywords: agriculture; ancestral; bed; beds; et al; garden; mcleester; menominee; plants; scullin; sites; species; wisconsin; y x
• Local Bird Knowledge and Practices among Traditional Accipiter Hawkers of the Black Sea Coast of Transcaucasia by Sözüer, Özgün; Aktay-Sözüer, Lale; Lakerta, Refik; Bilgin, Sercan; Kurdoğlu, Oğuz (2025) - Identification and Naming There is a rich diversity of bird names in Ahravi, where we recorded 85 local bird names (Table 1, Figure 4). The increasing environmental awareness of hawkers through the media also has an Figure 5 Number and salience of bird names as they relate to 14 orders and 58 species of birds in the study area. Keywords: accipiter; arhavi; birds; conservation; ethnobiology; figure; hawkers; hawking; names; research; species; table; turkey; turkic
• Plant Species for the Manufacture of Malagasy Traditional Alcoholic Beverages by Randrianarivony, Tabita N.; Rakotoarivony, Fortunat; Randrianasolo, Armand; Hart, Robbie (2024) - Toaka gasy is usually made through fermentation and distillation of sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), using traditional utensils and tools. Toaka gasy is among the most popular alcoholic beverages in Madagascar and is cheaply available in the market. Keywords: additive; betsa; beverages; ethnobiology; gasy; gasy additive; madagascar; malagasy; mtabs; plant; randrianarivony; regions; species; starter; starter b; toaka; toaka gasy; tree; tree e; trembo
• “Long hard-ſounding Latin name[s]”: Applying Historical Ethnobotany to the Loddiges Plant Nursery (1818–1830) by Maki, Ethyn (2024) - Historical place names throughout the British landscape suggest to the longstanding presence of plant nurseries. A rich network of plant nurseries operated in eighteenth and nineteenth-century London and the nearby Home Counties. Keywords: catalogs; ethnobiology; knowledge; loddiges; loddiges nursery; london; names; nursery; nurserymen; plants; research; sources; species; stock
• On Butterflies and the Carpenter Bees (Xylocopa caffra): Perceived Ecological Roles and Description of Traditional Children’s Games in Mayotte (French island, Indian Ocean of East Africa) by Perichon, Samuel (2024) - Using Q-methodology to Understand the Human Interactions with Pollinating Insects in Mayotte (French Island, Indian Ocean of East Africa). Pollinating insects are frequently linked to agriculture. Keywords: bee; bees; butterflies; butterfly; carpenter; children; ethnobiology; games; insects; mayotte; perichon; play; pollinating; research; respondents; species
• Traditional Ethnozoological Practices of Galliformes by Indigenous Inhabitants in Koraput District of Odisha, India by Sabat, Bhawani; Kanwar, Ankeet; Holeyachi, Basavaraj S.; Kalle, Riddhika; Joshi, Kamal Kant ; Singh, Ashutosh (2025) - In the Koraput district, certain tribal communities rely on fauna-based medicine to treat a range of human ailments, relying mostly on Galliformes species (Table 2; Supplementary Table 1). Hunting Techniques The reliance on wild meat in the Koraput district is closely tied to traditional hunting practices, which have been passed down through generations. Keywords: c o; e n; et al; ethnobiology; galliformes; hunting; india; n d; o n; practices; species; study; u n
• Insect Consumption in Indigenous Communities of Central America by Cruz-Dubón, Jose Adalid; Costa Neto, Eraldo Medeiros; de Azevedo Koch, Elmo Borges (2025) - Lepidoptera Caterpillars are consumed in Honduras by Lenca people (Marineros et al. 2015), although their consumption is mentioned throughout Central America by Bodenheimer (1951:307), citing Daguin (1900), who describes the process of searching for and using the larvae of a lepidopteran called maquara by Figure 2 Number of edible insect species in Central America by Taxonomic Order. Received August 17, 2024 OPEN ACCESS Accepted January 25, 2025 DOI 10.14237/ebl.16.1.2025.1902 Published March 7, 2025 Keywords Entomophagy, Edible insects, Ethnoentomophagy, Honduras, Hymenoptera Copyright © 2025 by the author(s); licensee Society of Ethnobiology. Keywords: america; central; chortí; consumption; costa; entomophagy; et al; food; honduras; insects; larvae; marineros; species
• Rethinking Cultural Keystone Practices: Conflict Resolution Practices as Examples of Salience and Well-Being by Arinyo-i-Prats, Andreu; LaTosky, Shauna; Turner, Nancy J. (2025) - Ethnobiology Letters 16(2):7–19 8 Perspectives Special Issue: Historical Ecology & Cultural Keystone Places Cultural Keystone Practices Here we formally define cultural keystone practices as “cultural practices that are both salient and essential for a community’s well-being.” Broadly, we define cultural keystone practices as traditions, knowledge, customs, uses, habits, or rituals with high cultural salience for one or more communities. Keywords: communities; community; conflict; cultural; cultural keystone; dueling; dônga; ecology; identity; keystone; keystone places; keystone practices; keystone species; mursi; places; potlatch; practices; resolution; species; tribunal
• Threats to Heritage in Cultural Keystone Places: Fitting Western Concepts into Gitxsan Legal Orders and Laws by Dimdiigibuu, Ardythe Wilson; Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda (2025) - Evocative metaphors, such as cultural keystone places, may offer a way to convey the ecological and cultural realities of Territories for Gitxsan Houses, fostering a broader understanding and deeper regard for Gitxsan cultural heritage within archaeological regulatory frameworks. Reviewing these tensions in the context of resource extraction in one Territory, Lax Xsin Djihl, Wilp/House histories and stewardship practices are routinely ignored by archaeological consultants, leading to the destruction of cultural heritage. Keywords: archaeologists; armstrong; canada; cultural; cultural keystone; djihl; ecology; gitxsan; heritage; keystone; lax’yip; management; people; places; species; wilp; xsin
• Cognate Plants: A Renewed Concept for Species with Common Uses and Taxonomic Similarities by Athaydes Liesenfeld, Marcus Vinicius de (2025) - By using the term cognate in the context of environmental perception and ethnobi- ological knowledge, I discuss how the process of public recognition, specifically how people perceive and identify plant species, can lead to incorrect identification and inaccurate labeling when it is flawed or mistaken. Another example of a group of cognate species affected by Amazonian wild harvesting involves the titica vine or cipó-titica (Heteropsis flexuosa (Kunth) G.S. Bunting and probably other Heteropsis Kunth species), which is harvested throughout the Amazon for its adventitious roots, used in making brooms and other handcrafted products. Keywords: acre; cognate; conservation; euterpe; management; mart; plant; practices; species; use
• Worldview and Conservation: Crocodiles and Caimans in the Pijao Indigenous People in Colombia by Bonilla-Liberato, Edison D.; Martínez-Criollo, Nelson; Villalba-Yate, Islena (2025) - Gómez-González, J. J., J. C. Narváez-Barandica, L. Báez, and E. Patiño-Flórez. 2017. O'Bryan, C. J., S. T. Garnett, J. E. Fa, I. Leiper, J. A. Rehbein, Á. Fernández-Llamazares, M. V. Jackson, H. D. Jonas, E. S. Brondizio, N. D. Burgess, C. J. Robinson, K. K. Zander, Z. Molnár, O. Venter, and J. E. M. Watson. Keywords: acutus; colombia; communities; conservation; crocodilus; del; et al; ethnobiology; knowledge; people; pijao; species
• Precontact Use of Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea) in Iowa, USA by Green, William; Parker, Kathryn E. (2025) - Report prepared for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City. Keywords: abies; balsam; balsam fir; cave; eastern; fir; green; iowa; north; press; research; ritual; seeberger; species; university; use; wood
• Evaluation of desiccated and deformed diaspores from natural building materials by Henn, Tamás; Pál, Róbert W. (2015) - The proportion of Triticum aestivum L. seeds is the highest, but numerous seeds of Avena sativa L., Brassica ´ napus ssp. napus L., Papaver somniferum L. and Vitis vinifera L. were also identified. A manual for the identification of plant seeds and fruits. Keywords: adobe; b ro; d ar; d d; diaspores; doi; identification; n d; n t; plant; remains; ro w; seeds; species; w n
• Traditional Knowledge, Agave Inaequidens (Koch) Conservation, and the Charro Lariat Artisans of San Miguel Cuyutlán, Mexico by Valenzuela-Zapata, Ana G.; Lopez-Muraira, Irma; Gaytán, Marie Sarita (2011) - Charro rope appears in official charrería guidelines as a wardrobe element without any description. The manufacture of charro ropes is an artisinal practice that requires both cultural and botanical knowlege. Keywords: agave; cerro; charrería; charro; cuyutlán; fibers; gentry; inaequidens; jalisco; knowledge; lariat; mexican; mexico; miguel; rope; san; species; viejo
• Analysis of Starch Grains Produced in Select Taxa Encountered in Southwest Asia by Hart, Thomas C. (2014) - Hordeum bulbosum L. Piperno et al., 2004 Hordeum glaucum Steudel Henry et al., 2011; Piperno et al., 2004 Hordeum hexas chon L. Henry et al., 2011 Hordeum marinum Huds. Reichert, 1913 Hordeum spontaneum L. Henry et al., 2011; Piperno et al., 2004 Hordeum vulgare L. Henry et al., 2011; Reichert, 1913 Koeleria macrantha (Ledeb.) Keywords: aegilops; asia; et al; grains; henry; hordeum; piperno; piperno et; reichert; research; seed; southwest; species; starch; starches; taxa; tri
• Participatory Ethnomedicinal Cancer Research with Fante-Akan Herbalists in Rural Ghana by Ragosta, Summer; Harris, Ivelyn; Gyakari, Ntim; Otoo, Emmanuel; Asase, Alex (2015) - 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; breast; cancer; community; ethnobiology; ethnomedicinal; fante; ghana; herbalists; international; kormantse; medicine; patient; plant; project; research; species; tropical; west
• Peruvian Children's Folk Taxonomy of Marine Animals by Pizarro-Neyra, José (2011) - Frequency of marine animals names used per child. Boster and Johnson (1989) affirm that some novice fishers recognize fish species using morphological appearance because knowledge of utility and behaviour requires cultural transmission and more experience. Keywords: actinopterygii; animals; birds; category; children; fish; fishing; folk; lists; marine; names; oma; pisces; species
• Ethnobotany of the Kiluhikturmiut Inuinnait of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada by Davis, Jonathan Duffy; Banack, Sandra Anne (2012) - The Territorial Government of Nunavut man- dates the incorporation of Inuit traditional knowledge (qaujimajatuqangit) into governance and resource management (Wenzel 2004); however, few ethnobo- tanical accounts of the Inuit of Nunavut exist. 80  Research Communica on  Plants used by the Kiluhikturmiut Inuinnait for food. Keywords: arctic; communica; community; food; inuinnait; inuit; kiluhikturmiut; knowledge; kugluktuk; kuhnlein; medicine; plants; research; species; use
• Identification, Classification and Zooarchaeology by Driver, Jonathan C. (2011) - However, there are important differences between a system of bone identification and artefact typology. Furthermore, the procedures for actually identifying specimens are rarely made explicit, nor are most zooarchaeological identifications susceptible to testing or critical evaluation. Keywords: analysis; archaeological; bison; bones; classification; comments; data; driver; ethnobiology; example; fragments; identification; methods; new; paper; remains; research; site; species; specimens; use; zooarchaeologists; zooarchaeology
• Using Digital 3D Scanning to Create “Artifictions” of the Passenger Pigeon and Harelip Sucker, Two Extinct Species in Eastern North America: The Future Examines the Past by Manzano, Bruce L.; Means, Bernard K.; Begley, Christopher T.; Zechini, Mariana (2015) - To create passenger pigeon artifictions, the authors obtained post-cranial elements (Table 1) from an archaeological site in the collections of the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Consequently, there are few literature sources and a limited amount of study reference specimens to help researchers identify passenger pigeon bones. Keywords: artifictions; digital; elements; figure; harelip; passenger; pigeon; remains; species; sucker; university; zooarchaeology
• Birdlime in Western Myanmar: Preparation, Use, and Conservation Implications for an Endemic Bird by 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. (2012) - 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; park; research; species; use; wildlife
• Threatened Biodiversity and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Associated Beliefs, Customs and Uses of Herpetofauna among the `Are`Are on Malaita Island, Solomon Islands by Pollard, Edgar Maeniuta; Thaman, Randy; Brodie, Gilianne; Morrison, Clare (2015) - Indigenous people have used traditional knowledge, skills, customary laws, taxonomic systems, and traditional practices to sustainably utilize their rich natural resources as a basis for adaptation to change (Lauer and Aswani 2010; Thaman 2013; Walker-Painemilla et al. 2010) and biodiversity conservation (Berkes 2004; Hunting- ton 2000; Walker-Painemilla et al. 2010). However, interestingly, younger males had the greatest knowledge of lizards, which suggests that they had sufficient time to gather and learn traditional knowledge. Keywords: are’are; biodiversity; conservation; documents; ebl; file:///c:/users; food; herpetofauna; islands; jon; knowledge; pacific; pollard%20et%20al; solomon; species; tek; volume%206
• Folk Knowledge of an Individual Plant Specimen: The Case of the Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis L.) in Virestad Parish, Småland, Sweden by Svanberg, Ingvar (2012) - 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; species; specimen; use; virestad
• The Importance of Insects in Australian Aboriginal Society: A Dictionary Survey by Si, Aung; Turpin, Myfany (2015) - We found a number of insect orders exploited for food, medicine, and other uses, as well as a clear trend towards more reliance on edible insects among desert communities. Keywords: Edible insects, Australian Aboriginal languages, Ethnoentomology, Honeybee, Moth larva, Beetle larva Ethnobiology Letters. Keywords: aboriginal; arnhem; australian; central; cultural; dictionary; food; insects; land; languages; larvae; people; species; turpin
• Use Value of Food Plants in the Xi'iuy Indigenous Community of Las Guapas, Rayon, San Luis Potosi, Mexico by Carbajal-Esquivel, Haydeé; Martínez, Javier Fortanelli; García-Pérez, José; Reyes-Agüero, Juan A.; Yáñez-Espinosa, Laura; Bonta, Mark (2012) - celtidifolia Kunth 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0.71 0.70 Musa x paradisiaca L. 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.06 1.02 Nopalea cochenillifera (L.) Salm-Dyck 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.00 1.00 Opuntia 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.00 1.00 Pachyrhizus erosus (L.) Urb. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1.00 0.93 Cultivated plants with highest use values were “teja corn” (Helianthus annuus L.) and “epazote” (Chenopodium ambrosioides L.). Keywords: citrus; food; interviewees; knowledge; luis; number; plants; research; san; species; use; uses; value; women
• “Buying a Pig in a Poke”: The Problem of Elasmobranch Meat Consumption in Southern Brazil by Bornatowski, Hugo; Braga, Raul Rennó; Kalinowski, Carolina; Vitule, Jean Ricardo Simões (2015) - Such a measure has the potential to modify behavior, create awareness, and stimulate responsibility throughout society, with the primary goal of reducing shark meat consumption and, ultimately, guaranteeing the long term conservation of marine resources. On the other hand, in many countries because shark meat is viewed as a low- quality meat, unlinking the name “shark” or “ray” from the commercialized meat is frequently necessary to overcome consumer prejudice (Bornatowski et al. Keywords: brazil; cação; conservation; et al; fish; marine; meat; rays; research; shark; species
• When the Killing's Done by Rick, Torben C. (2012) - 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; island; species
• Ethnobotany and Agrobiodiversity: Valuation of Plants in the Homegardens of Southwestern Uganda by Whitney, Cory W.; Bahati, Joseph; Gebauer, Jens (2018) - C. Homegardens in the region are dominated by bananas and intercropped with coffee with a variety of staples, fruits, vegetables, medicinal plants, trees for fuel Figure 2 Map of 102 homegardens in forest-edge, wetland-edge, and recently deforested areas of Uganda’s Greater Bushenyi Region showing plant species richness and use reports (UR) for plants. Plant species of ethnobotanical importance (plants useful to farmers1) were recorded with scientific names as well as local Runyankole, Rukiga, and Luganda names and identified with the help of botanists from Makerere University, Kampala. Keywords: diversity; et al; ethnobotany; food; homegardens; plants; research; species; uganda; use; uses; whitney
• An interviewwith Elisabeth Hsu on Plants, Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology by Vougioukalou, Sofia A. (2012) - 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; sciences; species; university
• Cactus Nurseries and Conservation in a Biosphere Reserve in Mexico by Pulido, María T.; Cuevas-Cardona, Consuelo (2013) - This paper describes these nurseries, their role in cactus conservation, and the benefits and limitations for the people managing them. The objectives of this study are to: a) analyze the emergence and organization of nurseries and their achievements and limitations in the opinions of their managers; b) document how conservation and knowledge practices have been generated; c) analyze the effect of the nurseries on cactus conservation, and evaluate whether nurseries have been able to decrease illicit removal of cacti. Keywords: biosphere; cacti; cactus; conservation; knowledge; management; managers; méxico; nurseries; nursery; people; plants; reserve; species; umas
• Archaeological Protein Residues: New Data for Conservation Science by Barker, Andrew (2011) - In this paper, I discuss the relevance of archaeological protein residue analysis to wildlife management issues. Ceramic artifacts, then, are ideally suited for protein residue analysis. Keywords: analysis; conservation; dna; et al; protein; research; residue; science; species; studies
• Beings of a Feather: Learning About the Lives of Birds with Amazonian Peoples by Jernigan, Kevin (2016) - 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; amazonian; behavior; birds; ethnobiology; example; jernigan; knowledge; people; research; species; work
• African Ethnobotany in the Americas by Zent, Egleé L. (2013) - 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
• The Tanoak Tree: An Environmental History of a Pacific Coast Hardwood. By Frederica Bowcutt. 2015. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 219 pp. by French, Katherine E. (2017) - For example, polyphenols and terpenoids derived from several west-coast conifers (Western redcedar, yellow cedar, Western juniper, and Port Orford cedar) showed in vitro antimicrobial activity against P. ramorum and placing woodchips from these species around tanoak trees reduced the abundance of the fungal pathogen (Manter et al. 2007). Currently, sudden oak death (Phytophthora ramorum) is rapidly reducing tanoak populations. Keywords: bowcutt; plants; species; tanoak; tree
• Traditional Knowledge as a Basis for the Development of a Sustainable Resource Management Program: A Case Study in a Rural Village in Morelos, Mexico by Hernández-Tapia, Rubén; Valverde, Teresa; Aranda, Abel; Martínez-Peralta, Concepción; Platas-Neri, Diana (2018) - Clave Para las Familias de Plantas con Flores de la Sierra de Huautla, Morelos, México. Estrategia estatal sobre biodiversidad de Morelos. Keywords: community; et al; knowledge; management; mexico; morelos; people; plant; resource; respondents; species; table; uma
• Toponymic Data Helps to Reveal the Occurrence of Previously Unknown Populations of Wild Zamia pumila L. on Volcanic Substrates in South Central Puerto Rico by Pagán-Jiménez, Jaime R.; Lazcano-Lara, Julio C. (2013) - 2Laboratory for Integrative Biology, Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras (Puerto Rico). In Puerto Rico, three Zamia species have been recognized (Acevedo and Strong 2005; Axelrod 2011; Meerow et al. 2012). Keywords: antilles; groups; jiménez; pagán; plants; puerto; pumila; research; rico; species; zamia
• Ethno-Ornithology of the Mushere of Nigeria: Children's Knowledge and Perceptions of Birds by Pam, Grace Alheri-Bulus; Zeitlyn, David; Gosler, Andrew (2018) - The bird is common in Mushere, as it appears in every visit in our records of Mushere birds. Although it could be argued that adults generally know more than children due to their age and experience, we think that bird knowledge in Mushere may not be children’s knowledge. Keywords: adults; birds; boys; children; conservation; et al; ethnobiology; girls; knowledge; letters; mushere; nature; pam; research; species; study

• The Trouble With TEK by Wyndham, Felice S. (2017) - 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. The Importance of Belief Systems in Traditional Ecological Knowledge Initiatives. Keywords: acronyms; ethnobiology; knowledge; tek; wyndham
• From Ethical Codes to Ethics as Praxis: An Invitation by Bannister, Kelly (2018) - 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 as intercultural communication, conflict resolution and martial arts, to invite a new conceptualization of research ethics in ethnobiology as ethical praxis. I offer initial ideas and an invitation to reimagine research ethics in ethnobiology as not just compliance with ethical practices, but as an art and practice that could lead us to articulating a new ethical praxis. Keywords: bannister; canada; code; cultural; ermine; ethics; ethnobiology; ise; knowledge; new; perspectives; posey; practice; praxis; research; research ethics; space; understanding
• Firearms Effects on Tsimane’ Hunting and Traditional Knowledge in Bolivian Amazonia by Medinaceli, Armando; Quinlan, Robert J. (2018) - Received November 11, 2017 OPEN ACCESS Accepted May 12, 2018 DOI 10.14237/ebl.9.2.2018.1154 Keywords Tsimane’, Traditional hunting, Firearms, Bolivia, Amazonia Copyright © 2018 by the author(s); licensee Society of Ethnobiology. Big animals (e.g., deer and tapir) Birds Fishing Table 1 Tsimane’ arrows used for traditional hunting. Keywords: arrows; bow; bows; conservation; ethnobiology; firearms; gun; hunters; hunting; knowledge; medinaceli; research; tsimane
• The Current Status of Ethnobiology in Ecuador by Gonzalez-Rivadeneira, Tania Ivanova; Villagómez-Resendiz, Radamés; Barili, Alessio (2018) - Our goal is a generalized diagnosis of La n America’s ethnobiological research produc on, which portrays Ecuadorian ethnobiology as prac cally non‐existent. However, to arrive at a more comprehensive analysis of Ecuadorian ethnobiology, we argue that bibliometric research in terms of keywords is insufficient, and that meta-analysis is also required. Keywords: del; ecuador; ethnobiology; knowledge; nature; quito; reasoning; research; science; studies; styles
• Dynamism in Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Persistence and Change in the Use of Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus) for Subsistence in Huanchaco, Peru by Paredes, Rossana; Hopkins, Allison L. (2018) - Ethnobiology Letters 9(2):169–179 171 Research Communications rise of political and social complexity in coastal Peru (Sandweiss 2009) and resulted in a continuation of Huanchaco fishing activities during the Inca Empire and through the Spanish Conquest in 1572. Results The fishing community uses totora reeds for three different economic purposes: the construction of caballitos de totora fishing boats, souvenirs, and mats. Keywords: caballito; community; construction; ethnobiology; figure; fishermen; fishing; huanchaco; knowledge; peru; reeds; tek; totora; use
• Indigenous Knowledge of the Edible Weaver Ant Oecophylla smaragdina Fabricius Hymenoptera: Formicidae from the Vientiane Plain, Lao PDR by Van Itterbeeck, Joost; Sivongxay, Niane; Praxaysombath, Bounthob; van Huis, Arnold (2014) - We provide a detailed account of indigenous knowledge of O. smaragdina and ant brood collection practices from the Vientiane Plain, Lao PDR, through focus group discussions and participant observations, and then reflect on sustainability and conservation issues, and on semi-cultivating constraints and possibilities embedded in indigenous knowledge and ant brood collection practices. O. smaragdina is an arboreal ant that builds nests by binding living leafs together. Keywords: ant; brood; collectors; knowledge; nests; queen; smaragdina; university; van; worker
• Phytomedicinal Knowledge and “Official” Sources in Tatev (Armenia) by Hovsepyan, Roman; Stepanyan-Gandilyan, Nina; Stollberg, Christian (2019) - Otherwise, children and young members of the community learned plant knowledge from the discussions and knowledge exchanged within the community or heard the corresponding stories through oral lore. Sometimes, when it was impossible to negate the usefulness of medicinal plants and folk medicine in general, this knowledge was “officialized” and returned to people through propaganda or educational materials as part of Soviet knowledge concerning medicine, production, and the household (e.g., Eaton 2004; Knaus and Petroff 1982; Medynskiy 1952: 96, 100, 109). Keywords: books; community; folk; knowledge; market; medicinal; plants; research; sources; soviet; tatev; traders; water
• Understanding Canoe Making as a Process of Preserving Cultural Heritage by Peterson, Debora; Hanazaki, Natalia; Li, Fabiana (2019) - At the policy level, Caiçara canoes were recognized as tangible and intangible cultural heritage of the Rio de Janeiro State (IPHAN 2013; Rio de Janeiro 2016), and an ongoing process seeks to recognize them as part of the intangible cultural heritage in Brazil (Németh 2011). Furthermore, Caiçara canoes are small, simple, capital-saving, user- centered, and have a sustainable approach, which comply with Schumacher’s criteria for appropriate technology (1973). Keywords: brazil; caiçara; canoe; cultural; ecological; et al; fishing; forest; knowledge; making; people; research; reserve
• World Views and the Concept of “Traditional” by Pierotti, Raymond (2018) - 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: change; concepts; cultures; knowledge; peoples; pierotti; thinking; traditional; world
• How to Carry Out a Democratic Ethnobotanical Study by Carlessi, Pedro Crepaldi (2019) - By presenting ontological features of plants used in religious practices, and the ways relations are created within this religious cosmology, this work opens a discussion about the political commitments of doing contemporary ethnobotanical science. Ethnobiology Letters 10(1):113–119 116 Perspectives Brazil, although the Afro-Brazilian communities' ways of living are legally recognized by the 1988 Federal Constitution, scientific research carried out in their territories and others generally described as “traditional” faces the challenge of adjusting legality to legitimacy, especially in communities whose notion of “social” is more extended than usually recognized. Keywords: afro; brazil; communities; ethnobiology; knowledge; plant; practices; research; science; são; umbanda
• 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. by Stiegler, Christopher D. (2019) - Ecological knowledge guides sustainable behaviors and outcomes within human cultures and promotes human survivability. Within these communities, humans develop relationships with other organisms and learn from them adaptive ecological knowledges. Keywords: chapter; human; knowledge
• Fisher-foragers Amidst the Reeds: Loptuq Perception of Waterscapes in the Lower Tarim Area by Svanberg, Ingvar; Ståhlberg, Sabira (2020) - 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; knowledge; lake; loptuq; perceptions; place; reed; river; ståhlberg; svanberg; tarim; toponyms
• Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia: Perspectives of Early Colonists. By Fred Cahir, Ian D. Clark, and Philip A. Clarke. 2018. Csiro Publishing, Clayton, Australia. 334 pp. by Svanberg, Ingvar (2021) - I hope this study can serve as model for researchers in regions such as Europe and Inner Asia where historical research of this type could provide insights into the pre-industrial peasants’ and nomads’ biocultural knowledge, which is a relatively unexplored topic. Various Aboriginal peoples and tribes lived and live in the area, including the Bangerang, Barrabool, Daungwurrung, Djadjawurrung, Gunditjmara, Gurngulag, Kurnai, and Wadawurrung. Keywords: australia; knowledge; south
• The Palolo Worm as a Cornerstone of Pacific Ecological Time-Reckoning by Kelso, Neal; Plunkett, Gregory; Dovo, Presley; Ramík, Dominik; Paul Vusqal, Charlie; Harrison, David; Balick, Michael (2023) - Stair’s (1847:18) first description of the cultural importance of palolo worms in Samoa suggests a detailed system for predicting their arrival: 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
• Cultivating the Unseen: Paʻakai and the Role of Practice in Coastal Care by McGuire, Gina; Mawyer, Alexander (2023) - 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; conservation; cultural; hawaiian; hawaiʻi; knowledge; management; marine; mawyer; mcguire; paʻakai; place; practices; practitioners; research; water
• Mutiny on the Boundary? Examining ILK-Based Conservation Collaborations through the Lens of Rubbish Theory by Singleton, Benedict E.; Boyd Gillette, Maris (2023) - 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; ethnobiology; hierarchies; ilk; issue; knowledge; research; rubbish; science; scientists; theory; thompson; western
• Doing Conservation Differently: Toward a Diverse Conservations Inventory by Gillette, Maris; Shebitz, Daniela; Singleton, Benedict (2023) - 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. Received July 11, 2022 OPEN ACCESS Accepted November 3, 2022 DOI 10.14237/ebl.14.2.2023.1835 Published May 31, 2023 Keywords Change, Conservation science, Diverse economies, Ethnobiology, Indigenous and local knowledge Copyright © 2023 by the author(s); licensee Society of Ethnobiology. Keywords: community; conservation; economies; et al; ethnobiology; gibson; graham; issue; knowledge; science
• The Challenges of Symmetrical Dialogue: Reflections on Collaborative Research in Northeast Brazil by Bollettin, Paride; El-Hani, Charbel N.; Ludwig, David (2023) - 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: communities; community; conservation; fishing; grant; knowledge; local; members; practices; project; research; researchers; university
• Directions In Brazilian Ethnobiology by Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino (2023) - Jacob, M. C. M., I. S. Feitosa, J. Y. M. Araujo, A. A. N. Batista, T. L. L. Silva, V.W. L. Motta, and U. P. Albuquerque. Jacob, M. C. M., A. M. Souza, A. M. Carvalho, C. F. A. Vasconcelos Neto, D. Tregidgo, D. Hunter, F. de Oliveira Pereira, G. R. Brull, H. V. Kunhlein, L. J. G. da Silva, L. M. J. Seabra, M. de Paula Drewinski, N. Menolli, P. C. Torres, P. Mayor, P. F. M. Lopes, R. R. V. da Silva, S. M. Gomes, and J. K. da Silva-Maia. Keywords: 2020; albuquerque; brazil; et al; ethnobiology; knowledge; research; silva
• Understanding Fire Through Ethnoecology in Brazil by Dantas, Caique; Medeiros Costa Neto, Eraldo; Borges de Azevedo Koch, Elmo (2025) - Specifically, the review was guided by the following research questions: (1) How has traditional fire management been characterized in the scientific literature? These patterns encompass (1) the cultural foundations and ecological knowledge guiding fire use among Indigenous and traditional communities; (2) the conflict between traditional practices and restrictive contemporary fire policies; (3) the ecological benefits of traditional fire regimes, such as wildfire prevention and biodiversity maintenance; (4) spatial and temporal variations in fire practices across regions and peoples; and (5) the limited incorporation of traditional fire management into public policy frameworks. Keywords: biodiversity; brazil; brazilian; cerrado; communities; conservation; et al; ethnobiology; fire; fire management; knowledge; management; practices; research; studies; use
• Local Ecological Knowledge and Importance of Bakeapple (Rubus chamaemorus L.) in a Southeast Labrador Métis Community by Karst, Amanda L.; Turner, Nancy J. (2011) - The remaining interviewees stated that there is no “ownership” or “claiming” of bakeapple areas and that the first person to go to an area in bakeapple season is considered free to harvest the berries. Interviewees report that the size of bakeapple fruits can vary considerably among patches and years as well as within a patch in a given year. Keywords: alaska; areas; bakeapple; berries; berry; charlottetown; community; fruit; interviewees; knowledge; labrador; people; pickers; picking; research; use
• To Know Them is to Love Them by Hunn, Eugene (2014) - 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. Yet anecdotally, in our contemporary urban milieu those most supportive of biodiversity conservation are those who have invested in learning to appreciate that biodiversity in concrete detail. Keywords: biodiversity; conservation; ethnobiology; knowledge; love; nature; new; university; world
• Ethnobotany of Tl'azt'en Nation: Plant Use and Gathering Site Characteristics by Shaw, Leona R.; Young, Jane P. (2012) - Pierre John, one of the Tla’zt’en participants, explains how plant medicines have been used in the past. Questions were related to the uses of plants for food and medicine, information about the plant gathering sites, and any concerns participants may have about traditional plant use and their gathering sites. Keywords: berries; british; columbia; community; food; gathering; knowledge; medicine; nation; participants; people; plants; research; sites; tl’azt’en; use
• Indigenous Concepts of ‘Living Systems’: Aristotelian ‘Soul’ meets Constructal Theory by Pierotti, Raymond (2015) - The examples of indigenous knowledge systems presented here are more similar to the modern, mathematically sophisticated approach than they are to the early ideas. Such flow systems generate only enough complexity for the size of the area involved, creating working architecture, in river systems, in canyons, also in vascular systems in plants and animals. Keywords: aristotelian; bejan; constructal; flow; knowledge; law; leroi; life; living; systems; theory; water
• Environmental Social Sciences: Methods and Research Design by Spoon, Jeremy (2012) - The book highlights 14 parallel themes related to environmental social science research and offers an integrated applied example as the final chapter. Social network analysis offers ethnobiologists a lens to understand the heterogeneity of a human population and how and why knowledge and practice change through research on the social connections among social entities. Keywords: knowledge; methods; research
• Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America. Vols. 1 & 2. by Mardones, Vanessa (2016) - 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). V.1: The History and Practice of Indigenous Plant Knowledge; V.2: The Place and Meaning of Plants in Indigenous Cultures and Worldviews. Keywords: knowledge; turner; v.2
• Landscape, Process and Power: Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge by O'Brien, Colleen Marie (2010) - 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
• Le Bestiaire Innu, Les Quadrupèdes. By Daniel Clément. 2012. Presses de l’Université Laval, Quebèc City. 548 pp. by Meilleur, Brien (2016) - The book’s format thus essentially combines what could easily be 20 inde- pendent species-by-species monographs into a massive compilation of Innu ecological knowledge and the related cosmological beliefs that are associat- ed with these same quadrupeds. For more than a generation, Innu them- selves, once known as Montagnais, furnished the first- hand ethnographic accounts that Clément has skillfully interwoven with Innu myths and legends, relevant published ethnohistory and Western scientific information. Keywords: innu; knowledge
• Urihi A: A Terra-Floresta Yanomami by Welch, James R. (2010) - At the request of the Pro-Yanomami Commission, a Brazilian- based NGO, Albert and Milliken applied their exceptional anthropological and ethnobotanical experience to the project of documenting Yanomami plant knowledge for the future benefit of the Yanomami people. 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. Keywords: authors; knowledge; plants; yanomami
• Using Ethnotaxonomy to Assess Traditional Knowledge and Language Vitality: A Case Study with the Vaie People of Sarawak, Malaysia by Hidayati, Syafitri; Abdul Ghani, Bibi Aminah; Giridharan, Beena; Hassan, Mohd Zafri; Franco, F. Merlin (2018) - (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). Two phenomena directly influencing TK and language noted in this study are: 1) the grouping of fishes and 2) the modification of fish names based on the market language. Keywords: community; ethnobiology; fish; fishes; group; kampung; knowledge; language; malaysia; names; njen; participants; people; research; vaie; vitality
• Relative Importance and Knowledge Distribution of Medicinal Plants in a Kichwa Community in the Ecuadorian Amazon by Doyle, Brian Joseph; Asiala, Caroline Michael; Fernández, Diana Margot (2017) - 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: age; importance; informants; knowledge; medicinal; payamino; plants; use
• Towards an Interdisciplinary Focus on Sound in Ethnobiology Research by Wright, Claire C (2017) - Outside of ethnobiology, other fields with lengthy durée in sound focused research could serve as important resources to encourage innovative research and methodologies. Ethnomusicolo- gists have led the call for greater integration between sound studies in the social and biological sciences, and focusing more attention to sound, music, and meaning (Guyette and Post 2015). Keywords: ethnobiology; ethnomusicology; knowledge; research; sound; soundscape
• Endenese Fisheries: Exploratory Findings on Environmental Perceptions, Fish Effort, and Overfishing in Eastern Indonesia by Ramenzoni, Victoria C. (2013) - 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; Keywords: decision; effort; ende; endenese; fisheries; fishermen; fishing; indonesia; knowledge; luck; making; management; marine; press; research; uncertainty; university
• 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. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2017) - 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; knowledge; métailié; science
• Echinacea: Herbal Medicine with a Wild History. Edited by Kelly Kindscher. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland. 238 pp. by Stiegler, Christopher David (2017) - 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
• Maternal Knowledge and Use of Galactagogues in Andean Communities of Cusco, Peru by Monteban, Madalena (2017) - It would be relevant to consider recommenda- tions regarding liquid intake through safe preparations like soups or hot drinks among breastfeeding mothers. Specific themes included liquids, transmission of knowledge, description of forms of use, experiences with use, perceptions regarding effects, hak’achu (Andean flicker bird) procurement, and hak’achu use. Keywords: andean; breastfeeding; child; galactagogues; hak’achu; health; journal; knowledge; milk; mothers; production; research; soup; use; women

• Living in a Dangerous Climate: Climate Change and Human Evolution by Law, Matt (2014) - /UKR /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. /ETI /FRA /GRE /HEB /HRV (Za stvaranje Adobe PDF dokumenata najpogodnijih za visokokvalitetni ispis prije tiskanja koristite ove postavke. Keywords: adobe; book; change; climate; human; university
• Animal Certifié Conforme: Déchiffrer nos Relations avec le Vivant by Gade, Daniel W. (2014) - Contributions on Microorganisms, Fish, and Insects L. Bérard and M. C. Montel discussed the simplest organisms in this book, lactic bacteria, which form the indispensable element in making a cheese called salers. Intense collection of these psitticines, valued for their ability to talk, has become a conservation issue B. Lizet and J. Milliet described the practice in several municipalities in France that have, not without controversy, constructed public pigeon cotes as a way Animal Certifié Conforme: Déchiffrer nos Relations avec le Vivant Bernadette Lizet and Jacqueline Milliet, eds. 2012. Keywords: animal; book; certifié; collection
• Na Primeira Margem do Rio: Território e Ecologia do Povo Xavante de Wedezé by Kawa, Nicholas C. (2014) - The book is organized into a simple structure with chapters that discuss Xavante language and history, demographics, environmental context, economic and subsistence activities, use of flora and fauna, sacred and ceremonial spaces, and Wedezé’s demarcation as an indigenous territory. This chapter is also the most important for contextualizing the establishment of Xavante villages in Wedezé during the colonial period. Keywords: book; wedezé; xavante
• Evolutionary Ethnobiology. Edited by Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Patricia Muniz de Medeiros, and Alejandro Casas. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham. 197 pp. by Pierotti, Raymond (2018) - Several chapters warrant serious consideration. The authors argue that fruits are examples of plant foods not used for medicinal purposes, disregarding the vitamins and anti-oxidizing agents found in many fruits. Keywords: book; chapter; ethnobiology; evolution; humans
• Bedouin Ethnobotany: Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World by Narchi, Nemer E. (2013) - 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
• 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. by Coimbra, Carlos E. A.; Welch, James R. (2018) - 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; sanöma; yanomami
• A Reply to Pierotti’s (2018) Review of “Evolutionary Ethnobiology”: Decolonizing Latin American Science by Albuquerque, Ulysses Paulino; Ferreira Júnior, Washington Soares; Vandebroek, Ina; Bussmann, Rainer W.; Paniagua-Zambrana, Narel Y.; Ladio, Ana H.; Voeks, Robert; Melo, Felipe; Jacob, Michelle C. M.; Gonçalves-Souza, Thiago; Lopes, Ariadna Valentina; Soldati, Gustavo Taboada (2021) - Ethnobiology Letters 12(1):79–81 79 Reviews specific field of evolutionary ethnobiology and how they could be incorporated into our science. While we certainly agree that everything depends on perspective and definition, the editors of the book clearly delimit its content in the first chapter, which defines the scope of the book and conceptualizes our understanding of evolutionary ethnobiology, which differs from evolution in an ethnobiological context as described by Pierotti. Keywords: authors; book; ethnobiology; pierotti; review
• The Semantics of Color: Reply to Response to Review by Pierotti, Raymond (2021) - In 2016, I volunteered to review a book, Evolutionary Ethnobiology, (Albuquerque et al. 2015). I do not know why the editors of Evolutionary Ethnobiology did not make a similar effort to ensure that their intended meanings were accurately presented. Keywords: albuquerque; book; ethnobiology; pierotti; review
• Nature's Chemicals by Chen, Diana (2013) - but Firn does not include the study of such chemicals in his book. Many other books tell the stories of natural products that shaped our world in more detail, such as Balick and Cox's Plants, People, and Culture (1996). Keywords: book; firn; nps
• Nï Jotï Aye: Jkyo Jkwainï/Libro Comunitario Jotï: Historia, Territorio, y Vida. By Eglée Zent, Stanford Zent, and Nï Jotï y Jodena U. 2019. Ediciones IVIC (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas), Caracas. 530 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2022) - It details every aspect of Jotï life, especially use of and relationships with plants, fungi, and animals. Even more important is the value of the photographs for documenting every aspect of Jotï life, from hunting to schools, from fishing to festivals, from wild landscapes to settled villages. Keywords: book; jotï; zent
• Moveable Gardens: Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory. 2021. Edited by Virginia D. Nazarea and Terese V. Gagnon. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 301 pp. by Ahmanson, Aubrey (2025) - Moveable Gardens expands upon these writings, especially Tsing’s, and applies ontological concepts in a concrete way. Moveable Gardens would shine in college-level anthropology courses, especially those concerned with foodways or multispecies ethnography. Keywords: book; chapter; relationships; sanctuaries
• Secret Chambers: The Insider Story of Cells and Complex Life by Pazhoohi, Farid (2014) - 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
• Camels in Asia and North Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on their Past and Present Significance by Bendrey, Robin (2014) - 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. 5: 129‐131. Keywords: book; camel; dromedaries; humped
• 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. by Owlett, Tricia E. (2015) - 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
• 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 by Stevens, Lois; Pierotti, Raymond (2015) - 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
• 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. by Narchi, Nemer E. (2015) - 63 Book Review Part I, “The Settings,” invites readers to get to know and familiarize themselves with Seri culture, language, and territory. Here, the reader plunges directly into Seri ethnomalacology thanks to the vivid description of numerous biocul- tural roles that mollusks play within Seri culture. Keywords: book; culture; mollusks; moser; seri
• Mammalian Diversity and Matses Ethnomammalogy in Amazonian Peru. Part 1: Primates by Pazhoohi, Farid (2011) - “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
• Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery by Pierotti, Raymond (2011) - 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
• 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. by Hart, Thomas C. (2015) - 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
• Feeding the People, Feeding the Spirit: Revitalizing Northwest Coastal Indian Food by Anderson, E. N. (2011) - Many of the entries on traditional foods include myths, stories, and conservation knowledge. Northwest Coast food and medicine: grapevines and willow trees. Keywords: book; food
• Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology by Anderson, E. N. (2011) - This book consists of eleven essays, treating different topics related to Native American views of the nonhuman world. The eighth, “Ecological Indians,” critiques several inaccurate portrayals of Native American ecology, especially Shepard Krech’s The Ecological Indian (1999) on grounds that should be familiar to readers of this newsletter (cf. Keywords: american; animals; book; humans; pierotti
• Paleonutrition by Hockett, Bryan (2011) - Great Basin Human Ecology at the Pleistocene- Holocene Transition, edited by K. E. Graf and D. N. Schmitt, pp. Paleonutrition should not be considered the “definitive volume” on the study of ancient nutrition and health, but it does have some good points. Keywords: book; chapter; paleonutrition; research
• Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany. Edited by Robert C. Clarke and Mark D. Merlin. 2013. University of California Press, Berkeley. 456 pp. $95.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0- 520-27048-0. by Rashford, John (2015) - Each of these broad areas of use is rich in details, as for example, the fascinating discussion of the use of hemp fiber and the account of the worldwide religious signifi- cance of psychoactive Cannabis. This is a book about the significance of Cannabis in human history, with thoughtful speculations concerning its significance in prehistory and in human evolution that in time, whether proven right or wrong, will contrib- ute to shaping future research. Keywords: book; cannabis
• The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South by Holtzman, Jon D. (2012) - 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. /UKR /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. Keywords: adobe; barbecue; book; food; south
• Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook by Martinez-Reyes, Jose (2012) - 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
• 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). by Anderson, Eugene N. (2015) - 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
• Pioneers in European Ethnobiology. Edited by Ingvar Svanberg and Łukasz Łuczaj. 2014. Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden. Uppsala Studies on Eastern Europe 4. 324 pp. $82.50 (paperback). ISBN 978-9-15548-8-444. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2015) - Chapters cover Spain, Russia (several on early explorers), Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia (two chapters!), Italy, and other areas, with a chapter on early women ethnobiologists of the world (not just Europe). Many early 20th century scholars were transitional, and then with leaders like Gunda and Mäger we have full-blown ethnobiology. Keywords: book; ethnobiology; women
• Around the World in 80 Plants: An Edible Perennial Vegetable Adventure in Temperate Climates. By Stephen Barstow. 2014. Permanent Publications, East Meon. 304 pp. by Grabowska-Zhang, Ada (2016) - More importantly, by focusing on perennial plants, this book opens up options for those unwilling or unable to take on the intensity of annual vegetable growing. This fascinating catalogue of useful plants has roots in the author’s personal story. Keywords: barstow; book; plants
• The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. 2015. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. Xii + 331 pp. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-6911-6275-1 (cloth), 978-1-4008-7354-8 (eBook). by Anderson, Eugene N. (2015) - Most of the gathering is done in Oregon, where incredibly irresponsible logging and forest management led to replacement of commercial timber by weedy lodge- pole pine (Pinus contorta)—almost useless for wood, but the perfect plant for matsutakes, which are mycorrhizal symbionts of pine roots. Her observations on the problems of matsutake taxonomics would be valuable reading for any taxonomist. Keywords: book; matsutake; people; tsing
• The Banana Tree at the Gate: A History of Marginal Peoples and Global Markets in Borneo by Anderson, E. N. (2012) - The usual story appears: the actual growers are at the mercy of a long chain of authorities, from local political figures to Dutch colonials and then to the world market. Intellectual issues also include most of the serious topics of current political ecology, from smallholder rights to “globalization.” Keywords: book; dove
• A Reply to van der Voort's Response to Welch's Review of "Urihi A: A Terra‐ Floresta Yanomami" by Welch, James R. (2011) - 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
• Birds in the Daily Life of the Toba Indigenous People from the West of the Province of Formosa (Argentina) by Scarpa, Gustav F. (2010) - 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. 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) Keywords: birds; book; toba
• The Great Cacti: Ethnobotany & Biogeography by Hooper, David A. (2010) - By using photographs, detailed information on cacti distribution, biology, utilization, and personal impressions, Yetman succeeds in describing these plants’ diversity. Ethnobotany & Biogeography David Yetman. Keywords: book; cacti; yetman
• Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science by Anderson, E. N. (2010) - 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
• The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World by Wolverton, Steve (2010) - 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. Often overlooked by scientists, economists, politicians, and other parties from developed countries is that environmental management in local settings has been effective for centuries. Keywords: anderson; book; management; solidarity
• Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South by Anderson, E. N. (2010) - 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
• The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature. By David George Haskell. 2013. Penguin Books, New York. 288 pp. by Wolverton, Steve (2016) - In the 10 degree Fahrenheit cold Haskell chronicles the acute changes in his physiology, but what I recall most are his observations of Carolina chickadees. Indeed, Haskell asks, who knows the evolutionary potential of golf balls, plastics, and other forms of litter in the long run? Keywords: book; forest; haskell; mandala; world
• Quantitative Paleozoology by Wolverton, Steve (2010) - 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; quantification
• Applied Zooarchaeology: Five Case Studies. Steve Wolverton, Lisa Nagaoka, and Torben C. Rick. 2016. Eliot Werner Publications, Clinton Corners, NY. 130 pp. by Dombrosky, Jonathan (2016) - 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; Westaway and Lyman 2016; Zeder 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
• River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado  by La Point, Thomas W. (2013) - 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
• Nature’s Pharmacopoeia: A World of Medicinal Plants. By Dan Choffnes. 2016. Columbia University Press, New York, NY. 332 pp. by Narchi, Nemer E. (2017) - 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; medicinal; plants

• Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change by Wolverton, Steve (2013) - 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.” 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; environmental; ethnobiologists; ethnobiology; journal; research
• Dilemmas of Representation in Contemporary Environmental Anthropology: Documenting Dynamite Fishing in Southeastern Tanzania by Raycraft, Justin (2018) - My observations of dynamite fishing in the Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park in the Mtwara region of Tanzania do not constitute a unique ethnographic experience. The unmistakable sound of dynamite fishing has histori- cally been so frequent in coastal Tanzania that it has even been referred to as the “wimbo wa taifa” (“the song of the nation”) in some public discourses (Kalangahe and Slade 2014:3). Keywords: anthropology; conservation; dynamite; ethnobiology; ethnographers; ethnographic; fishing; letters; marine; tanzania; university
• Bearly Guilty: Understanding Human–Andean Bear Conflict Regarding Crop Losses by Albarracín, Viviana; Aliaga-Rossel, Enzo (2018) - This conflict for resources increases the negative perceptions of and prejudices against bears, which may lead to hunting intended as retaliation for crop damage and to reduce future damage. We examined all plants affected in the plot to determine the characteristics of crop damage. Keywords: albarracín; andean; bear; bolivia; communities; conflict; conservation; corn; crop; damage; human; lambate; losses; wildlife
• Ethnobiology for the Future: Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity. Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan. 2016. Arizona University Press, Tucson. 309 pp. by White, John Robert (2018) - In Chapter 17, Nabhan discusses the unique and immensely important Parque de la Papa, an in situ crop conservation effort among Quechua speakers in Peru, which any student of agrobiodiversi- ty or conservation should familiarize themselves with (see also the excellent agrobiocultural conservation research and resources from the Native Seeds/ SEARCH initiative and web portal). Chapters 11 and 12 explore effective conservation strategies targeting many place-based heritage foods and heirloom seeds and the importance of effective collaboration between their diverse actors. Keywords: chapter; conservation; diversity; ethnobiology
• Historical Shark Meat Consumption and Trade Trends in a Global Richness Hotspot by Barbosa-Filho, Márcio L. V.; Hauser-Davis, Rachel Ann; Siciliano, Salvatore; Dias, Thelma L. P.; Alves, Rômulo R. N.; Costa-Neto, Eraldo M. (2019) - Ethnobiology Le ers 10(1):97–103 97 Research Communica on over the past three decades with shark meat, fins, cartilage, skin, oil, teeth, jaws, and even gill rakers reaching high market values (Lack and Sant 2009), and worldwide catches have been estimated as ranging between 63 and 262 million individuals annually (Worm et al. 2013). However, this has changed in recent decades, as a total of 95.4% (n=62) of the ques onnaire respondents reported currently consuming shark meat, while 61.5% (n=40) highlighted its high quality. Keywords: bahia; brazil; conservation; et al; fish; fishers; meat; shark
• What Drives Illegal Hunting with Dogs? Traditional Practice in Contemporary South Africa by Chambers, Jaime (2020) - What Drives Illegal Hunting with Dogs? In a thicket of competing narratives surrounding illegal hunting, the current gaps call for ethnographic work rooted in environmental history to answer foundational questions: who hunts with dogs illegally, and why do they do it? Keywords: africa; conservation; dogs; history; hunting; kwazulu; natal; south
• Saving the Greater Adjutant Stork by Changing Perceptions and Linking to Assamese Traditions in India by Barman, Purnima Devi; Sharma, D. K.; Cockrem, John F.; Malakar, Mamani; Kakati, Bibekananda; Melvin, Tracy (2020) - A cultural procession for stork conservation. The conservation program for the Hargila can be a practical model for other conservation programs for endangered birds that live and breed in rural districts where the nesting and feeding sites are not in protected areas. Keywords: adjutant; assam; birds; colony; conservation; india; nests; people; program; storks; trees; villages; women
• Creation of a Field Guide to Camas Prairie Plants with Undergraduates: Project-Based Learning Combined with Epistemological Decolonization by Bowcutt, Frederica (2021) - Having Native students complete the program creates the potential for building ongoing relationships that can facilitate greater collaboration with local tribal communities in the future. Patchy mosaic prairie-oak woodland vegetation visibly reflects the imprint of human activity, which includes past burning to foster native food plants including common camas (Camassia quamash) and Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana). Keywords: bowcutt; college; conservation; evergreen; field; learning; northwest; oak; plants; prairie; press; project; research; restoration; state; students; washington
• 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. by French, Katherine E. (2021) - Finally, Chapter 6 delves into scientific paradigms and political motivations driving conservation activities in the region and how indigenous communities have used international conservation paradigms like REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) to express their agency in managing and using their local landscape/natural resources. Velásquez Runk has a unique expertise on the area; she previously conducted conservation work in the region (1996–2001) followed by two stints of ethnographic fieldwork (2001–2005 and 2006–2016). Keywords: conservation; runk; velásquez; wounaan
• Conservation at Stake: Institutionalized Environmentalisms and Indigenous Knowledges About How to Protect the Brazilian Atlantic Forest by Thomaz Sandroni, Laila (2023) - 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. Concurrently in the late 90s and early 2000s, a renewed Tupinambá Indigenous movement rose. Keywords: areas; atlantic; bahia; biodiversity; conservation; forest; iesb; land; narrative; research; solutions; tupinambá
• Khawa Karpo: Tibetan Traditional Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation by Glover, Denise M. (2014) - 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
• Subsistence Strategies and Resource Use Among the Santals of Srirampur in Assam by Mardi, Saurabh; Singha, Hilloljyoti (2025) - This limitation means that the data might not accurately reflect the actual number of animals harvested, leading to possible overestimations or underestimations of hunting activity. The results suggest that hunting activity is low and probably in decline. Keywords: bushmeat; communities; conservation; et al; hunters; hunting; india; mardi; research; santal; study; wildlife
• Centering Indigenous Cultural Resurgence to Improve Ecological Restoration: Learnings from the Revitalization of Cultural Keystone Places of the Quw’utsun Peoples by Sachs, Nava S.; Martin, Tara G.; Grenz, Jennifer (2025) - Right: S’amuna’ looking towards Ye’yumnuts, where Indigenous land stewardship has been disrupted for over a century and settler-led restoration efforts have seen minimal success. In contrast to Spune’luxutth, sites like Ye’yumnuts, where Indigenous land stewardship and governance have been disrupted for over a century, face significant challenges. Keywords: canada; conservation; cowichan; cultural; deer; ecology; food; indigenous; island; land; peoples; places; quw’utsun; research; restoration; resurgence; sachs; spune’luxutth; stewardship; work
• Felling Ficus: The Cultural Status of Fig Trees in a Rural Assamese Community, India by Cottee-Jones, H Eden W; Whittaker, Robert J. (2015) - Problems associated with fig trees “Fig trees provide too much shade for tea to grow, and they provide places for insects to live, which eat the tea plants” (Rajan Surman, tea estate manager) Other villagers identified multiple gods inhabiting fig trees, while Tika Kunwar, a Nepali immigrant, argued that only Durgha, the God of power, inhabited fig trees. Keywords: assam; bor; conservation; ficus; fig; fig trees; figs; gos; india; research; trees
• Historical Ecology and Ethnobiology: Applied Research for Environmental Conservation and Social Justice by Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda; Veteto, James R. (2015) - The applied focus is likely the most broadly relevant aspect of historical ecology and provides fertile cross-linkages with ethnobiology. In the field of archaeology, historical ecology allows scholars to make their research more relevant by contributing to contempo- rary environmental issues (Balée and Erickson 2006) and providing, for example, long-term zooarchaeolog- ical data for the reassessment of ecological baselines (McKechnie et al. 2014). Keywords: change; conservation; doi; ecology; ethnobiology; landscapes; research; university
• Aridland Springs in North America: Ecology and Conservation by Smith, Kate (2012) - Sixteen examines the legal issues of spring conservation and seventeen summarizes the current research gaps and the conservation challenges still remaining. This book represents the combined efforts of twenty-seven authors to holistically address the ecology and conservation of springs in the arid areas of North America. Keywords: aridland; conservation; springs
• Letting Wood Rot: A Case Study on Local Perceptions of Global Conservation Initiatives (Boumba, Niger) by Müller, Jocelyn; Guimbo, Iro Dan (2011) - 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
• Rivers, Fish, and the People: Tradition, Science, and Historical Ecology of Fisheries in the American West. Edited by Pei-Lin Yu. 2015. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 160 pp. by Dombrosky, Jonathan (2016) - This is surprising in that some of the best examples of what archaeological data can provide conservation science, in the larger geographic region this book focuses on, have been intertwined with (Butler and Delacorte 2004), or explicitly contextualized in (McKechnie et al. 2014), an applied zooarchaeological framework. Indeed, using archaeological data in these sorts of ways has proved quite fruitful (see discussions in Grayson 1981; Lyman 1998; McKech- nie et al. 2014; Keywords: conservation; data; ecology; reference

• The Words We Use and The Worlds We Build by Duncan, Sophie (2018) - In both scien- tific and gardening communities, restoring landscapes with native plants has become a priority. I support this restoration effort but find the language associated with native plants problematic because the rhetoric I regularly hear mirrors the xenophobic and racist language endemic to the United States. Keywords: ethnobiology; language; plants; use; words
• 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. by McAlvay, Alex (2017) - 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. Ethnobiology Letters 8(1):103–104 cases from Latin America where elements of different health systems are selectively adopted in a piecemeal fashion, while LaPlante (Chapter 2) asserts that “Javanese” medicine is actually the result of cultural layerings of Animist, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and bioscientific components. Keywords: chapter; health; plants
• Plants and Humans in the Near East and the Caucasus: Ancient and Traditional Uses of Plants as Food and Medicine, a Diachronic Ethnobotanical Review by Miller, Naomi F. (2014) - 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. 184- 187). Reviewed by Naomi F. Miller  Reviewer address: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.   nmiller0@sas.upenn.edu  Received: November 20, 2013  Volume: 5:22‐23  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. Keywords: information; plants; vol; volume
• Traditional use of Dasylirion acrotrichum in the Construction of Floral Arches for the Festival of San Jerónimo, in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico by Torres-Martínez, Guadalupe; López Binnqüist , Citlalli; Silva Rivera , Evodia; Velázquez-Rosas, Noe (2020) - 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; plants; torres; veracruz
• Iwi’gara, The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science. By Enrique Salm’on. 2020. Timber Press, Portland, OR. 245 pp. by Pierotti, Raymond (2022) - As its subtitle indicates, it is instead an examination of the way various Indigenous peoples of the Americas, use plants for food, shelter, and ceremonial purposes. Ethnobiology Letters 13(1):75–76 75 Reviews Salm’on’s personal experience with the plant in question, followed by short sections on traditional usage by Indigenous peoples, identification and harvesting practices (accompanied by good color images of the species, or tribal use), and health elements, in which basic pharmaceutical information is provided. Keywords: plants; salm’on
• Cymbopogon winterianus, Neurolaena lobata, and Ruta chalepensis—Recurring Herbal Remedies in Guatemalan Maya Q’eqchi’ Homegardens by Thiel, Amanda M.; Quinlan, Marsha B. (2022) - 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; cymbopogon; guatemala; lobata; maya; medicinal; plants; q’eqchi; research; uses; winterianus
• In Search of the Ancient Maya Foods. A Paleoethnobotany Study From a Non-elite Context in Sihó, Yucatán by Herrera-Parra, Esteban Moisés (2023) - This paper aims to contribute to the existing body of knowledge by exploring the diverse spectrum of Maya food practices among non- elites. By analyzing starch grains extracted from soil samples, we were able to identify staple crops like maize (Zea mays) and beans (Phaseolus spp.). Keywords: ancient; food; grains; herrera; maize; maya; plants; research; samples; sihó; starch; yucatán
• Native Food Uses of Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) by Gonella, Michael P.; Kindscher, Kelly (2024) - Their historic relationship with common milkweed involved burning milkweed habitat in the late fall to improve milkweed (and other prairie plant species) growth, as well as to improve hunting grounds (Gonella 2007). Domestic cultivation of common milkweed was another way plant health and production were optimized, with accounts of tribal members taking wild seeds and planting them in their home gardens (Gonella 2007; Smith 1933:47). Keywords: food; gonella; harvesting; kindscher; methods; milkweed; plants; shoots; spring
• Ethnobotanical Study of Wild-Edible Plants in Simada District, South Gondar Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Wassie, Kindye Belaye (2024) - Abstract This study was conducted in the Simada district, South Gondar Zone, Ethiopia, to investigate the ethnobotanical properties of wild edible plant species. respectively Figure 4 Growth forms of wild edible plant species. Keywords: c o; e d; e fr; e n; e s; fr u; n d; plants; u n; u s
• Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants. By Michael Sheridan. 2023. Routledge, New York. 275 pp. by Vittal, Jayaditya (2025) - Amongst the Chagga, for example, Dracaena plants clearly mark ownership; an individual may leave a knotted Dracaena leaf on an unattended resource, such as a log in the forest, to imply that it has already been claimed. In this case, Dracaena plants are used by the Chagga to “bear witness” (p. 53) to the redrawing of borders and restructuring of families and villages. Keywords: cordyline; dracaena; plants; sheridan
• Sidama Agro-Pastoralism and Ethnobiological Classification of its Primary Plant, Enset (Ensete ventricosum) by Quinlan, Marsha B.; Quinlan, Robert J.; Dira, Samuel (2014) - Vulnerability and Resilience of Sidama Enset and Maize Farms in Southwestern Ethiopia. Tesfaye (2008) finds that Sidama gardens contain 5-15 varieties of enset with increasing diversity as garden size and hectares per household member increase. Keywords: classification; enset; ethiopia; ethnobiology; folk; generic; hunn; plants; quinlan; sidama; university
• Plant-Based Solutions to Global Livestock Anthelmintic Resistance by French, Katherine E. (2018) - 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

• Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan. By Charlotte von Verschuer. Translated and Edited by Wendy Cobcroft. Routledge, New York. 356 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2018) - 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
• Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa. By Kathryn M. de Luna. 2016. Yale University Press, New Haven. 332 pp. by Whitney, Cory W. (2018) - In De Luna’s work we learn how political innovation in pre-colonial African farming societies depended on developments in food collection. 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. Keywords: food; luna
• Fermentation and the Ethnobiology of Microbial Entanglement by Flachs, Andrew; Orkin, Joseph D. (2019) - 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 Flachs1* and Joseph D. Orkin2 1Department of Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafaye e, USA. Keywords: ecology; ethnobiology; fermentation; food; human; microbes
• Exploring the Interfaces between Ethnobiology and Ecotoxicology: A Novel Approach by Blanco, Graziela Dias; Hanazaki, Natalia; Cunha, Suelen Beeck; Cremer, Marta Jussara; Campos, Mari Lucia (2020) - Pinheiro, M. A. A., P. P. Gandara, L. F. A. D. Silva, A. A. Almeida, and F. P. Zanotto. DOI:10.1016/ j.ecoenv.2016.07.018. Elibariki R., and M. M. Maguta. Keywords: areas; babitonga; communities; contamination; environmental; et al; food; health; interviews; metals; resources
• Food Production in Native North America: An Archaeological Perspective. By Kristen J. Gremillion. 2018. Society for American Archaeology, The SAA Press, Washington, DC. 194 pp. by Veteto, James R. (2021) - Ethnobiology Letters 12(1):32–34 32 Reviews continuum for food production strategies as opposed to the stale hunter-gatherer, horticulturalist, agriculturalist, industrialist typologies of yesteryear. ovifera, and Polygonum erectum) is provided, in addition to sections on: chronology and culture history; the EAC in North American prehistory; ecological and cultural processes of initial domestication and dispersal; and food production during the Woodland period. Keywords: food; gremillion; maize; native; north; production; veteto
• The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming: Population, Food and Family. By James W. Wood. 2020. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 502 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2021) - 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
• The Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) Food Forest Project—Reconciliation in Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education through Cross-Cultural Agroforestry Demonstration by Bosco, Samantha; Thomas, Bradley (2023) - This engages the meta-question: what is the relationship of Indigenous food projects to the larger political project of IFS if they are stimulated and carried by outsider entities? 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
• A New Future for the Ancient Perennial Mediterranean Vegetable ‘Akkoub (Gundelia spp. and Asteraceae) by Van Tassel, David; Streit Krug, Aubrey; Othman, Yusra; Khouri, Tala; Muaddi, Fouad; Taamallah, Eyad; Awashra, Ishraq; Tesdell, Omar (2025) - More relevant to this discus- sion are studies indicating that Gundelia oil, grain or vegetation is safe or even beneficial. Fortunately, phenotypic variation for this trait has been observed, suggesting that genetic variation may also be present within or between Gundelia populations (Lev-Yadun and Abbo 1999). Keywords: crop; domestication; et al; food; gundelia; new; oil; palestine; plant; research; seed; tassel; van; wild
• Investigating the Connections Between Food Choices and Climate Change Mitigation in Fijian Households by Kaminski, Alexandra; Hughes, Peter; Sevakarua, Waisiki; Dukuno, Osea; Kamanalagi, Joana; Glover, Mia; Drew, Joshua (2025) - Ethnobiology Letters 16(1):104–112 104 Research Communications Food sovereignty actors emphasize local foods and reject the privatization of natural resources to give control of water and land to the food producers local to that area (U. S. Food Sovereignty Alliance 2024). Buying food decouples local food from community farms but is sensitive to supply chain shutdowns and barriers to travel following disasters. Keywords: access; change; climate; communities; community; et al; fiji; food; itaukei; pacific; research; sovereignty
• Astro-Ethnobiology: Insects, Identity, and the Design of Food Systems in Space by Berggren, Åsa; Svanberg, Ingvar (2025) - Toward Astro-ethnobiology: A Conceptual Lens Much of the current discourse on space food systems is dominated by technoscientific framings prioritizing efficiency, automation, and caloric adequacy. Gastronomic ethnobiology helps us understand how food systems are shaped by ecology and nutrition, but also by history, culture, and daily practices (Pieroni et al. 2016). Keywords: astro; berggren; care; ethnobiology; expeditions; food; insects; life; provisioning; space; support; svanberg; systems
• Defoliator Pest to Caboclos and Gourmet Food to the Suruí Indians: Contrasting Amazonian Perspectives of Lusura sp. Caterpillars by Coimbra, Carlos E. A. (2012) - This caterpillar erupts in very large numbers on Brazil nut trees, denuding them of foliage. Key Words: Amazonia, Indigenous peoples, Brazil nut tree, Insects as food, Ethnoentomology Reading a recently published article in Biotropica brought back memories of my first years of fieldwork among the Suruí Indians in Rondônia, Brazil, in the 1980s. Keywords: brazil; caterpillars; coimbra; family; food; nut; suruí; trees
• Ancient Plants and People: Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany. Edited by Marco Madella, Carla Lancelotti, and Manon Savard. 2014. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 316 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-8165-2710-6. by Carvajal Contreras, Diana Rocío (2015) - Her chapter is a comprehensive study of plant food production and the use of indigenous resources in sub-Saharan Africa. Her study is an example of how North American studies of plant production have gradually shifted from description to explanation. Keywords: archaeobotany; author; chapter; data; food; plant; production; remains; studies; study
• Ethnobotany of Breadfruit in Vanuatu: Review and Prospects by Labouisse, Jean-Pierre (2016) - In the agro- climatic conditions of Vanuatu, breadfruit trees once established require low energy and other inputs. Bonnemaison (1974) has described the impact of copra industry development and that of other cash crops (cocoa and coffee) on the process of “disintensification” of Vanuatu agriculture. Keywords: breadfruit; food; islands; journal; labouisse; pacific; ragone; research; seeds; trees; vanuatu; walter
• Food Yields and Nutrient Analyses of the Three Sisters: A Haudenosaunee Cropping System by Mt.Pleasant, Jane (2016) - Research by Mt.Pleasant and Burt (2010) found that maize yields were not affected by the presence of bean and pumpkin, yielding as well in the polyculture as in monoculture. Ethnobiology Letters 7(1):87–98 94 Research Communications Even though maize yields were slightly higher when grown in monoculture compared to the Three Sisters, additional energy from bean and pumpkin in Three Sisters compensated for the slightly lower maize energy in this cropping system. Keywords: bean; crops; energy; food; maize; monoculture; mt.pleasant; protein; pumpkin; sisters; system; yields
• Free for All: Foods, Landscapes, and Lives in the Paraguayan Chaco by Wyndham, Felice S. (2016) - 3Many reports from this time concur that rice, sugar, bread, wheat, and other foods of the cojñone were perceived as smelling and tasting horrible to the Ayoreo, especially to the elders. In 1998 the community was somewhat dependent on getting deliveries of gift food from the Red Cross, UNICEF, or other aid and government organizations. Keywords: ayoreo; chaco; children; community; ethnobiology; family; food; honey; jesudi; letters; memory; people; time
• Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food by Barbas-Rhoden, Laura (2010) - 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. Chapters consider spices; fermented foods and beverages; social plants (foods like tea and masticatories like kola and coca); animal foods with medicinal qualities; and food in contemporary complementary and alternative medicine. Keywords: etkin; food
• Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture by Rashford, John (2010) - 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. © 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
• Traditional Agroforestry Systems and Food Supply under the Food Sovereignty Approach by Hernández, Mariana Yazzur; Macario, Pedro Antonio; López, Jorge Omar (2017) - 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

• The Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Seed Rights during Ethnobotanical Research by McCune, Letitia M. (2018) - It is likely commercial seed companies and breeders would be concerned with measures protecting local and Indigenous Peoples’ seed rights if they were to result in reduced access to genetic resources for developing new varieties. 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. Keywords: access; agreements; banks; ethnobiology; farmers; international; peoples; plant; resources; rights; seed; use
• Rhynchophorus palmarum used in Traditional Medicine in the Peruvian Amazon by Delgado, Cesar; Romero, Rosa; Vásquez Espinoza, Rosa; Trigozo, Marcial; Correa, Rocio (2019) - Casas, R. R., L. Pawera, P. P. P. Villegas, and Z. Polesny. 2018. Alves, R. R. N., and T. L. P. Dias. Keywords: acid; amazon; communities; delgado; diseases; et al; insects; larva; palmarum; suri; treat; use
• Night Soil: Origins, Discontinuities, and Opportunities for Bridging the Metabolic Rift by Kawa, Nicholas C.; Ding, Yang; Kingsbury, Jo; Goldberg, Kori; Lipschitz, Forbes; Scherer, Mitchell; Bonkiye, Fatuma (2019) - Beyond making fertilizer that is safe and acceptable to users, the future of night soil management in Ghana and other countries requires considerations of social justice as well. Introduction For millennia, farmers across the world have relied on human excrement as a fertilizer, often known euphemistically as “night soil” (Kawa 2016a; King 1911; Van Der Geest 2002; Xue 2005). Keywords: biosolids; environmental; et al; excrement; excreta; kawa; management; night; night soil; sanitation; sludge; soil; use; world
• Pineapple Among the Indigenous Nambikwara: Early Twentieth Century Photographic Documentation from Central Brazil by Coimbra, Carlos E. A.; Welch, James R. (2020) - Among the trophies chosen by Columbus for presentation to his King were pineapple fruits, which he named pinã de Indes (pine of the Indians). Without these records and the four photographs highlighted in this article, knowledge of pineapple use among the Nambikwara and other Indigenous peoples in Amazonia would be lost. Keywords: brazil; commission; grosso; janeiro; mato; nambikwara; pineapple; rio; rondon; use
• Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine by Glover, Denise (2013) - 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. Other strengths of the book include the use of Tibetan script, Wylie transliteration, appendices with the Tibetan alphabet and Wylie transliteration, sample curricula for courses in Tibetan medicine, and various references. Keywords: adobe; authors; medicine; tibetan; use
• An Interview with Ethnobiologist Dr. Elizabeth Widjaja by Fowler, Cynthia; Pittsenbarger, Amy (2011) - 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
• Trail Trees: Living Artifacts (Vivifacts) of Eastern North America by Kawa, Nicholas C.; Painter, Bradley; Murray, Cailín E. (2015) - In this article, we present 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; artifacts; eastern; living; north; past; trail; trail trees; trees; university; use
• Examining Fuel Use in Antiquity: Archaeobotanical and Anthracological Approaches in Southwest Asia by Smith, Alexia; Dotzel, Krista; Fountain, Joyce; Proctor, Lucas; von Baeyer, Madelynn (2015) - 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
• Preliminary Starch Grain Evidence of Ancient Stone Tool Use at the Early Archaic (9,000 B.P.) Site of Sandy Hill, Mashantucket, Connecticut by Hart, Thomas C.; Ives, Timothy H. (2013) - Five types of starch grains were found on the artifacts: compound transitory starch grains, small starch grains (less than 5 μm in diameter) embedded in soil, unidentified storage starch, Andropogoneae and C. esculentus cf. starch grains. This study highlights the potential use of starch grains found on museum curated stone tools for recon- structing plant use practices at this site. Keywords: analysis; debris; grains; hill; mashantucket; plant; research; sandy; site; starch; starch grains; stone; storage; use
• Gender Bias Affects Forests Worldwide by Elias, Marlène; Hummel, Susan S; Basnett, Bimbika S; Colfer, Carol J.P. (2017) - 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; forest; gender; trees; use; women
• Use of Cetaceans as Bait in Southern Bahia, Brazil, by Expert Fishermen that Market Shark Fins: A Lucrative Trade and Two Threatened Zoological Groups by Barbosa-Filho, Marcio Luiz Vargas; Fonseca Barreto, Rebeca Mascarenhas; Siciliano, Salvatore; Seminara, Cecilia Inés; Costa-Neto, Eraldo Medeiros (2018) - Sources of funding: M. L. V. Barbosa Filho received a master’s fellowship (Number 132919/2011-7) from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). Semi-structured interviews about shark fishing and use of cetaceans as bait were conducted with 65 shark fishers from Ilhéus, Una, and Canavieiras municipalities in Brazil. Keywords: bait; barbosa; brazil; cetaceans; et al; filho; fishermen; fishing; use

• Condors, Water, and Mining: Heeding Voices from Andean Communities by Sault, Nicole (2018) - These confrontations reflect a lack of consultation between mining companies and local residents, governments making agreements with companies that ignore local sentiment, and mining companies making promises to local communities that are not kept (Li 2016; Muradian et al. 2003; Rojas 2012). Mining companies argue that new technologies enable them to operate in a safer, cleaner manner compared to the underground mines of the past, but the new methods of open-pit mining entail hiring a small labor force while causing terrible damage to watersheds, pastures, and farmland (Li 2015). Keywords: america; andean; bolivia; communities; companies; condors; del; environmental; ethics; ethnobiology; issue; justice; letters; mining; mountains; page; people; perspectives; peru; research; sault; water; web; women
• An Interview with Verna Miller (Pepeyla) by Blazina, Ashley (2018) - There’s a great swell of young indigenous people that are taking notes. How important is it to learn from multiple teachers, whether that be different people, plants, animals, processes, or place, and how can that be incorporated into today’s learning environment? Keywords: ashley; education; miller; nature; people; verna
• The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future. By Jim Robbins. 2017. Spiegel and Grau, Penguin Random House, New York. 352 pp. by Sault, Nicole (2018) - In Chapter 17, The Transformational Power of Birds, he analyzes the attraction of bird watching in relation to the psychology of repressed fear. The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future. Keywords: birds; people; world
• Neocolonial Thinking and Respect for Nature: Do Indigenous People have Different Relationships with Wildlife than Europeans? by Pierotti, Raymond; Fogg, Brandy Raelene (2020) - When the frequency of wolf attacks on people is compared to that from other large carnivores or wildlife in general it is obvious that wolves are among the least dangerous species for their size and predatory potential. … The risks of wolf attacks in Europe/ Scandinavia (and also North America) today appear to be very low, as recent cases are rare, despite increasing numbers of wolves. Keywords: behavior; dogs; ethnobiology; fogg; humans; mech; people; pierotti; wolf; wolves; years
• Bird Stories from Latin America: Lessons on Change and Adaptation by Sault, Nicole (2020) - What is altered when bird stories are no longer told and shared? There are some who continue to communicate with birds and share bird talk stories. Keywords: 11(2):58; birds; bribri; condors; costa; cultural; ethnobiology; las; letters; los; oral; people; perspectives; peru; rica; sault; stories; story; voices; vultures
• Avian Voices, Avian Silences: Learning By Listening to Birds by Sault, Nicole (2020) - 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). This contemporary research shines a light on how bird taxonomies were structured and the cultural understandings underlying the names given to birds. Keywords: 2020; birds; ethnobiology; gomes; people; stories; voices
• When is it Appropriate to Reference Identities, Relationships of Belonging, or Knowledge Lineages in Ethnobiological Scholarship? by Wyndham, Felice S.; Baker, Janelle; Bannister, Kelly; Bruno, Maria; Flachs, Andrew; Fowler, Cynthia; Gillreath-Brown, Andrew; Olson, Elizabeth; Wade, Kali; Walshaw, Sarah (2021) - Identity Terms as Flashpoints and SoE Support Systems The term “people of color” (or the related BIPOC— Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) has become more commonly used in the United States, Canada, and Britain, to reference solidarity and shared experience in a context of (and often in coalition against) over-privileged settler, white, and Euro- colonial societies and academia in particular. Ethnobiology Letters 12(1):73–78 73 Editorials racialized categories. Keywords: color; ethnobiology; identity; journal; letters; people; publishing; society; terms
• Explorations in Ethnobiology: The Legacy of Amadeo Rea by Pierotti, Raymond (2014) - 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. This concept may have come from his work with Indigenous peoples, who classify storks as a form of vulture. Keywords: chapter; ethnobiology; forms; people; rea
• Kinship and Beyond: The Genealogical Model Reconsidered by Schram, Ryan (2010) - 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
• Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region by Wolverton, Steve; Figueroa, Robert Melchior; Swentzell, Porter (2016) - 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; environmental; ethics; heritage; justice; mesa; people; pueblo; research; terrain; verde; wolverton
• The Mind of the Copaíba Tree: Notes on Extractivism, Animism, and Ontology from Southern Bahia by DeVore, Jonathan (2017) - First, the study aims to foster comparative research on attributions of mindedness to copaíba trees and other plants in interethnic and transregional contexts. In regions where coercive economic forces were at play, oil extraction may have intensified the destruction of copaíba trees through the use of radical harvesting measures, which could range from employing an ax to cut a large hole in the trunk to cutting the tree down altogether.3 Keywords: bahia; brazil; copaíba; copaíba tree; damião; extraction; forest; harvest; human; oil; people; plowden; prescriptions; presuppositions; research; tree

• Second Impressions: Expanding the Range of Cereals from Early Neolithic Franchthi Cave, Greece by Allen, Susan E. (2018) - Second Impressions: Expanding the Range of Cereals from Early Neolithic Franchthi Cave, Greece Allen. 2018. These casts were discovered in 2015 among a set of plant impression casts that Hansen made from architectural clay fragments recovered from the Bronze Age site of Tsoungiza, at which she supervised archaeobotanical recovery. Keywords: cave; einkorn; franchthi; greece; hansen; impressions; neolithic; plant; remains
• The Archaeobotany and Ethnobotany of Portuguese or White Crowberry (Corema album) by Lopez-Doriga, Ines (2018) - Notes 1Comparative reference material for the identification of C. album seeds is available at the Laboratório de Paleoecologia e Arqueobotânica of the Directorate General for Cultural Heritage (DGPC, Lisbon, Portugal), at the Departament of Environmental Archaeology of the Research Center of Biodiversity and Genetic Resources of the University of Porto (Portugal), at the Bioarchaeology laboratory of the Cantabria International Institute for Prehistoric Research of the University of Cantabria (Spain), at the Institute of Botany of the University of Hohenheim (Germany) and at the Environmental Department at Wessex Archaeology LTD. Finally, the site Praça do Município in Lisbon, with deposits dated to the sixteenth century, provided waterlogged C. album fruit or seed remains (Mateus, Queiroz and van Leeuwaarden 2003). Keywords: album; corema; crowberry; d s; distribution; dóriga; fruit; lópez; o n; plant; portugal; portuguese; remains; research; seeds
• Some Phrygian Plant and Insect Remains from Kerkenes Dağ, Central Anatolia (Turkey) by Smith, Alexia; Branting, Scott (2014) - 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). Archaeological Context of Samples 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)  Keywords: anatolia; dağ; kerkenes; mas; plant; remains; summers; turkey; university; � http://kerk1.metu.edu.tr/12propub/kerknews/2000/index.html
• Histoire et Voyages des Plantes Cultivèes à Madagascar avant le XVIe Siècle. By Philippe Beaujard. 2017. Karthala, Paris. 415 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2018) - Dr. Beaujard has shown that Madagascar was in the past a crossroads in the Indian Ocean, a place whose history is tightly linked with the rest of the planet. In the present work, Dr. Beaujard has presented a comprehensive and thorough historical study of plant genetics, plant origins, and plant names for the crops that came to Madagascar from Asia and Africa. Keywords: beaujard; madagascar; plant; rice; word
• How Toxic is Milkweed when Harvested and Cooked according to Myaamia Tradition? by Everest, Michael A.; Gonella, Michael P.; Bowler, Holly G.; Waschak, Joshua R. (2019) - Because cooked plant material also has a higher water content, the cooking procedure reduces the cardiac Figure 3 Amount of cardiac glycosides in A. syriaca before (“Raw”) and after (“Cooked”) cooking according to Myaamia tradition. Finally, the amount of cardiac glycoside was determined in plant material before and after cooking according to traditional Myaamia procedure. Keywords: glycoside; material; myaamia; plant; shoots; syriaca
• An Intrasite Analysis of Agricultural Economy at Early Islamic Caesarea Maritima, Israel by Forste, Kathleen M. (2021) - Received July 6, 2020 OPEN ACCESS Accepted February 18, 2021 DOI 10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1718 Published March 19, 2021 Keywords Archaeobotany, Israel, Early Islamic period, Agricultural economy, Intrasite analysis Copyright © 2021 by the author(s); licensee Society of Ethnobiology. An Intrasite Analysis of Agricultural Economy at Early Islamic Caesarea Maritima, Israel Forste. Keywords: abbasid; caesarea; cereal; charcoal; floor; holum; islamic; israel; maritima; plant; ramsay; remains; sample; wood
• Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the Upper Amazon by Eisenberg, Amy (2014) - Many of them desecrate our culture and our territories, traffic in yage’ and other plants, dress like Indians, and act like charlatans. Singing to the Plants is an informative and purpose- ful contribution to the literature on Mestizo healing and ritual plants within a syncretic Mestizo cultural context. Keywords: amazon; ayahuasca; chapter; mestizo; plant
• The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines. Cassandra Leah Quave. 2021. Viking, New York. 371 pp. by Baker, Janelle Marie (2022) - Those, like Quave, who were born with birth defects including missing bones (Quave was born without a right fibula), shortened limbs, and neural tube defects, have not yet been offered any benefits from the US Veterans Health Administration to cover the hundreds of thousands of The book, The Plant Hunter: A Scientist’s Quest for Nature’s Next Medicines is quite possibly the first female -authored full-length ethnobiological memoir (see Stepp 2016), in which ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave begins her life story with her ancestral roots, describes her childhood, and her path to becoming a leading medical ethnobotanist, bringing us to present day. Keywords: hunter; nature; plant; quave
• Sichuan Peppercorn and the Birth of Numbing Spices in East Asia by Jacques, Guillaume; d'Alpoim Guedes, Jade (2023) - 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; etymon; evidence; guedes; jacques; languages; pepper; plant; research; rgyalrongic; sichuan; spicy; tibetan; zanthoxylum
• Ethnobotany of Artistic Plant Uses. by Marín, Jon; Garnatje, Teresa; Vallès, Joan (2024) - We have identified two distinct types of artistic creations. Ethnobiology Letters 15(1):41–52 42 Research Communications the production of artistic creations within the studied region, and ii) to reflect on the current vitality and significance of this cultural and social activity. Keywords: agricultural; area; art; barcelona; creations; ethnobiology; fair; figure; fruit; grain; plant; research; seed; study
• Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals. By Gary Paul Nabhan and David Suro Piñera. 2023. W.W. Norton and Company, New York. 320 pp. by McAlvay, Alex C. (2025) - Their holistic examination of the cultural and ecological state of Agave species and their distillates spans phytochemistry, microbiology, population, and community ecology while addressing human actors from farmers to distillers to bartenders to drinkers. Ethnobiology Letters 16(1):10–11 11 Reviews including Agave species used in mezcal and other distillate production that is taxonomically up-to-date and includes geographic information and local names. Keywords: agave; plant; spirits; tequila
• Utilization of Non-Timber Forest Products Based on Traditional Culture: A Case Study of Iban Dyeing in Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia by Fujisawa, Natsuho; Nakashizuka, Tohru (2012) - 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. Distribution in the Three Villages and Plant Availability Since N. fruticans does not exist in the region, people in Rumah Nyawai and Rumah Engkang purchase it or a “salty” substitute. Keywords: distribution; iban; plant; rumah; villages
• Eucalyptus sp. at the Intersection of Environment and Culture in Kenya by Garrett Kluthe, Brandy M; Chen, Diana K (2017) - In order to assess farmers' ethnoecological knowledge of Eucalyptus sp. trees on their farms and elsewhere, a semi-structured survey (Figure 1) was administered to seventeen farming family heads from the Eastern, Central, Rift Valley, and Western Regions of Kenya in the Summer of 2015. The initial question asked before conducting a survey was to determine if the person farmed and if they also grew Eucalyptus sp. trees. Keywords: africa; ethnobiology; eucalyptus; eucalyptus sp; farmers; kenya; plant; research; survey; trees
• Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases by Butler, Virginia L. (2010) - Hollenbach and Walker also use CA to identify trends in Holocene-aged plant and animal records at Dust Cave, Tennessee. 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. Keywords: chapters; plant; records
• Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans. Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation. Edited by Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave. 2014. Springer, New York. 255 pp. by French, Katherine E. (2016) - Third, the volume highlights the connection between the landscape, natural resource availability, and plant use. Lyver, P., J. M. Wilmshurst, J. R. Wood, C. J. Jones, M. Fromont, P. J. Bellingham, C. Stone, M. Sheehan, and H. Moller. 2015. Keywords: development; ethnobotany; plant

• Sustainable Lifeways: Cultural Persistence in an Ever-Changing Environment by Ramsey, Monica (2013) - 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
• Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion. By John M. Marston. 2017. University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, Philadelphia. 224 pp. by Rowan, Erica (2018) - Focussing on diachronic changes in wood use, Marston is able to demonstrate that extensive use of juniper during the Late Bronze Age results in changes to the local forest structure and subsequently pine and oak become the most common wood types in all later periods. Local wood types that could be collected with the least amount of effort were used for fuel, apparently regardless of activity type (e.g., hearth, kiln, and religious offering). Keywords: chapter; data; gordion; marston; volume
• Out of Nature: Why Drugs from Plants Matter to the Future of Humanity by Gremillion, Kris (2013) - Unfortunately, this passion for discovering the wonders of nature waned, and with it the search for plant medicines. She builds her argument by carefully explaining the basics of botany and plant- based ethnomedicine and describing the debt owed to traditional plant knowledge by Western medicine. Keywords: chapter; nature; rogers
• Beyond Wild and Tame: Soiot Encounters in a Sentient Landscape. By Alex C. Oehler. 2020. Berghahn Books, New York, NY. 214 pp. by Kotašková, Eva (2020) - 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: chapter; relations; soiot
• Moving Crops and the Scales of History. By Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy, and Tiago Saraiva. 2023. Yale University Press, New Haven. 352 pp. by Ford, Anabel (2025) - This organization allows the authors to develop the important concept of cropscape, not simply crops and their outputs. These are set against cropscapes that were transformed from complex traditional Indigenous ones that had emerged over the long term to avert risk. Keywords: assemblage; authors; chapter; cropscape; history
• Growing the Taraco Peninsula: Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes. By Maria C. Bruno. 2024. University of Colorado Press, Denver. 232 pp. by Villar, Daniel A. (2025) - In both the introduction and the final chapter, Bruno argues that the agricultural practices of the Taraco Peninsula can inform sustainability as “resurgent communities; whose practices allow for human communities to endure in an area for a long time without exhausting the organic and inorganic entities that they depend upon” (p. 23). This book is the culmination of over thirty archaeological field seasons in the Taraco Peninsula and deftly incorporates contemporary ethnography and Aymara voices with archaeological evidence to trace cultural and environmental change in the Altiplano. Keywords: agriculture; bruno; chapter; peninsula; taraco
• Kinship in Action: Self and Group by Pazhoohi, Farid (2013) - In Kinship in Action, the relations of people to property, land, and resources are emphasized as fundamental factors in kinship. Because of this constellation of concern, the authors tend to stray from their discussions of kinship structures and focus more on the economics. Keywords: authors; chapter; kinship; marriage
• 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. by Baker, Janelle Marie (2015) - 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; new; pollution

• Emerging Environmental Ethics for Living with Novel Fire Regimes in the Blue Ridge Mountains by Fowler, Cynthia T. (2018) - To illustrate the ways the Blue Ridge Complex validated both a fire-is-good ethic and a fire-is-bad ethic, I describe two group hikes that traveled through areas that were burned by Blue Ridge Complex fires. These community meetings were productive fora where residents of affected communities expressed their understandings of the roles of fire in their landscapes. Keywords: blue; blue ridge; community; effects; ethics; ethnobiology; fall; fire; forest; fowler; mountain; ridge; wildfires
• Working Together to Carry Water: Research Ethics when One of Two Parents is Indigenous by Tuladhar-Douglas, Will; Tuladhar-Douglas, Bhavana (2018) - Compared to other Indigenous communities, even among Newars, Tuladhars are mobile and transnational. The 2007 Basic Law for Indigenous Peoples has the ‘ultimate goal of establishing parallel ‘nationhood’ institutions in legislation, judiciary, education, and so on among indigenous communities’ (Huang and Liu 2016). Keywords: bhavana; children; communities; community; culture; douglas; ethics; ethnobiology; family; kingdom; kinship; language; letters; nepal; newar; research; rituals; scotland; tuladhar; united; university

• Learning from the Past: Reflecting on the Maya-ICBG Controversy in the Classroom by Shebitz, Daniela; Oviedo, Angela (2018) - Many of those who are familiar with the Berlin’s perspective argue that the Maya ICBG program was fraught with opposition before it even started that would have made it difficult, if not impossible, to succeed. The researchers hoped to benefit Indigenous communities economically and technologically while conserving plants and traditional knowledge. Keywords: berlin; case; communities; consent; ethics; ethnobiology; icbg; international; maya; project; study

• 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. by Hooper, David A. (2019) - 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
• Bad Mothers and Strange Offspring: Images of Scrubfowl and Sea Turtles in Eastern Indonesia by Forth, Gregory (2020) - Yet as this similarity should suggest, a more general explanation for creatures other than turtles hatching from turtle eggs and creatures other than scrubfowl chicks hatching from scrubfowl eggs lies in what Flores Islanders perceive as the poor parenting skills of both animals. 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. Keywords: animals; birds; creatures; eggs; flores; nage; scrubfowl; sea; turtles
• Birds of the Mongol Empire by Anderson, Eugene N. (2016) -  “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: birds; china; crane; empire; falconry; foods; hunting; medicine; mongol; mongolia; poison; polo; science

• Archaeofaunal Remains, Geography, and the Investigation of Cultural Keystone Places by Wolverton, Steve; Dombrosky, Jonathan; Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda; Ryan, Susan C. (2025) - One of the main issues in the discovery of CKPs (as with archaeological sites) is that human-environment interactions that constitute them can be subtle, leaving only scant material traces (Wyndham 2009). Those in the legal and regulatory world often see landscapes, CKPs, and/or archaeological sites through a comparatively simple geographic lens of presence or absence, with little understanding that the empirical archaeological record is far more complex (Martindale 2014; Owen 2015). Keywords: absence; archaeology; canyon; ckps; crow; cultural; ecology; ethnobiology; fragmentation; places; record; remains; sites
• Actualistic Zooarchaeology in Central Western Argentina in Cave and Open Air Contexts by Otaola, Clara (2014) - 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
• Image-Based 3D Modeling as a Documentation Method for Zooarchaeological Remains in Waste-Related Contexts by Macheridis, Stella (2015) - The technicalities and steps for processing image- based 3D modeling can be found in other works (De Reu et al. 2014; Remondino and El-Hakim 2006). 3D models can potentially be integrated with GIS and spatial analyses of faunal remains to investigate possible clustering of remains for particu- lar taxa or types of skeletal parts (Berggren et al. 2015). Keywords: documentation; doi; excavation; field; image; modeling; remains
• Coming Together to Toast and Feed the Dead in the Cotahuasi Valley of Peru by Mayer, Aaron Jay; Sayre, Matthew; Jennings, Justin (2017) - Abstract There has been little discussion on the macrobotanical remains from Andean Middle Horizon sites. The evidence for Middle Horizon food production and consumption at Tenahaha suggests that people brought most, if not all, of their food with them from their villages. Keywords: area; horizon; jennings; maize; middle; molle; quinoa; remains; seeds; site; tenahaha
• Identifying Turtle Shell Rattles in the Archaeological Record of the Southeastern United States by Gillreath-Brown, Andrew; Peres, Tanya M. (2017) - Therefore, we integrate information about turtle shell rattles from ethnographic and ethnohistor- ic accounts of turtle shell rattle use and archaeological occurrences of turtle rattles to give researchers a foundation for evaluating fragmentary turtle remains and understanding turtle shell rattles in archaeofaunal samples in the southeastern United States. Since turtle shell rattles are generally associated with ritual, ceremonial, and mortuary activity, proper identifica- tion is important for indigenous groups, who may be able to claim cultural items under the Native Ameri- Turtle or tortoise (Testudines) shell rattles are percussion instruments used by indigenous peoples in ceremonial contexts to keep rhythm and are symbols of group beliefs (Jackson and Levine 2002; Figure 1). Keywords: brown; carolina; figure; rattles; remains; shell; states; turtle; united

• Brazil's New Biodiversity Law by Welch, James R. (2015) - 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

• Publishing in Ethnobiology Letters in 2018 by Marston, John M.; Flachs, Andrew; Olson, Elizabeth Anne (2018) - Introducing Ethnobiology Letters. Adopting a Creative Commons license has brought EBL in line with other leading open-access journals and expanded the rights of authors while ensuring open access to EBL articles in perpetuity. Keywords: articles; ebl; editorial; ethnobiology; journal; letters; peer; review
• Ethnobiology After Four Years of Socioecological Violence by Flachs, Andrew; Olson, Elizabeth A.; Marston, John M.; Bruno, Maria C. (2021) - DOI:10.1038/s41477-020-0691-6. Welch, J. R., J. M. Marston, and E. A. Olson. Four years ago, the editors of Ethnobiology Letters (Welch et al. 2016) reaffirmed our scholarly and personal commitments to the diversity of ecological and human life. Keywords: ethnobiology; letters; united; violence
• Snapshots of Digital Scholarship in Zooarchaeology: Introduction to the Special Issue by McKechnie, Iain; Kansa, Sarah Whitcher; Wolverton, Steve (2015) - Wells, J. J., E. C. Kansa, S. W. Kansa, S. J. Yerka, D. G. Anderson, Thaddeus G. Bissett, Kelsey Noack Myers and R. Carl DeMuth. The paper by Flint Dibble (2015) details the use of bar coding software to increase the efficiency and accuracy of zooarchaeological data collection, enabling an efficient transition from field to lab to data generation. Keywords: 2014; data; digital; doi; ethnobiology; issue; letters; research; zooarchaeology

• Herring and People of the North Pacific: Sustaining a Keystone Species. By Thomas F. Thornton and Madonna L. Moss. 2022. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 276 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2022) - Both are forms of modern industrial bureaucratic civilization and both have the same record in managing fisheries. Pollution of any kind damages the resource, another worldwide problem for herring fisheries. Keywords: anderson; fish; fisheries; fishery; herring; management; thornton; tlingit
• Using Linked Open Data to Improve Data Reuse in Zooarchaeology by Kansa, Sarah Whitcher (2015) - 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, because many archaeologists do not yet have experience in data reuse, they lack understanding of what “good” data management means in terms of their own research practices. Keywords: data; datasets; digital; doi; lod; management; practices; research; reuse; sharing; zooarchaeology

• Genotoxic Profile and Morphological Variation of the Amanita rubescens Complex: Traditional Knowledge for Safe Consumption in Mexico by Hernández-Rico, Griselda Nallely; Octavio-Aguilar, Pablo; Orijel-Garibay, Roberto; Romero-Bautista, Leticia (2019) - Paired distance matrix (genetic with Jaccard’s distances, morphological by Euclidean distance for continuous data and Gower’s distances for discontinuous data) were correlated with a Mantel test to establish a correspondence between the genetic profile and morphological traits, following Figure 1 Geographic locations of the sampling sites of A. rubescens complex mushrooms. Red samples (‡) showed all molecular amplifies including genotoxic and positive controls of A. rubescens complex in Hidalgo, orange samples (†) showed one to three genotoxic markers, black samples (¥) only showed positive control amplifies. Keywords: color; complex; data; del; et al; genes; group; hernández; hidalgo; mushrooms; profile; rubescens
• The Charcoal Quantification Tool (CharTool): A Suite of Open-source Tools for Quantifying Charcoal Fragments and Sediment Properties in Archaeological and Paleoecological Analysis by Snitker, Grant (2020) - However, removing an analyst’s discretion and expertise to single out charcoal fragments can lead automated methods to misidentify dark or opaque non-charcoal particles as charcoal (Whitlock and Larsen 2001). Additionally, these methods may also underestimate charcoal fragment area or shape due to lighting conditions that lead to detection of darker colors within the center of charcoal fragments scaling to lighter colors at the edges. Keywords: analysis; charcoal; chartool; color; data; et al; fire; fragment; imagej; methods; module; pixels; research; science; sediment
• Stable Isotopes Analysis (Carbon and Nitrogen) in the Central Western Argentina Archaeology: A Review by Gil, Adolfo; Neme, Gustavo; Peralta, Eva A. (2025) - Based on general models of plant 13C/12C and 15N/14N distribution (Ambrose 1991; Amundson et al. 2003; Kohn 2010), a baseline for altitudinal isotopic distribution model was used by Gil et al. (2016) as an initial theoretical approach. Gil et al. (2011) rejected the idea that maize was significant in the human diet as early as 2000 years ago Gil et al. 2025. Keywords: argentina; central; cwa; data; diet; et al; gil et; human; isotope; maize; peralta; peralta et; research
• Data Collection in Zooarchaeology: Incorporating Touch-Screen, Speech-Recognition, Barcodes, and GIS by Dibble, W. Flint (2015) - Conclusion Affordably incorporating 21st century technology within archaeological data recording systems serves to increase the efficiency of field and lab based research and to decrease the incidence of human errors. 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: data; database; dibble; entry; error; methods; recording; speech; time; zooarchaeology
• Beyond Depression? A Review of the Optimal Foraging Theory Literature in Zooarchaeology and Archaeobotany by Jones, Emily Lena; Hurley, David A. (2017) - Second, although resource depression has been widely identified in archaeological papers over the last decade, foraging theory has been used to explore many other topics as well. While there are variations through time, the most striking trend is the apparent decrease in the number of resource depression papers in the period 2013–2017. Keywords: archaeobotany; data; depression; foraging; literature; papers; publications; resource; theory; zooarchaeological; zooarchaeology

• Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring. By Frederick H. Damon. 2017. Berghahn, New York. 375 pp. by Townsend, Patricia K. (2018) - 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
• Using Lichenometry, Dendrochronology, and Historical Data to Establish the Relative Age of an Abandoned Cemetery in Northern Arkansas by Garrett Kluthe, Brandy; Guiccioni, Margaret; Stephenson, Steven L. (2018) - Historical records including GLO records, USGS maps, death records, and cemetery data were collected and analyzed for specific information regarding the site of Cedar Grove cemetery (General Land Office 2012; Johnson County Historical Society 2012). There is a strong correlation between the dates that were determined using lichen measurements and the dates from the cemetery Age of gravestone Gravesite Lichen diameter (cm) Calculated age Historical records Calculated date GS 1 3.81 71 1922 1922 GS 2 8.128 151 1859 GS 3 7.112 132 1874 GS 4 GS 5 7.874 146 1863 GS 6 5.2 96 1902 GS 7 11.43 212 1811 GS 8 12.192 226 1800 GS 9 GS 10 11.43 212 1811 GS 11 GS 12 8.128 151 1859 1859 GS 13 9.652 179 1837 GS 14 GS 15 10.414 193 1826 GS 16 9.652 179 1837 GS 17 9.652 179 1837 GS 18 GS 19 4.9 91 1906 GS 20 GS 21 GS 22 11.938 221 1803 GS 23 6 111 1890 Table 2 Ages of sampled gravestones using lichen growth rates and historical records. Keywords: age; cedar; cemetery; gravestones; growth; lichen; rate; records; trees
• 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. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2019) - 12–13) and other fruit trees. 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. Keywords: asia; central; fruit; trees

• When Is a Fish Not a Fish? Questions Raised by a Nage Life-Form Category by Forth, Gregory (2012) - Thus compounded, tebhu therefore implicitly includes other fish besides the one designated ana tebhu, although of course the term, or the entire expression, encompasses much else besides. A review of component folk-generic taxa, however, reveals that Nage do not classify five kinds of freshwater fish as ‘fish’ (ika), even though they further apply ika to various marine fish (including sharks and rays) as well as to marine mammals. Keywords: ana; category; cluster; fish; folk; form; freshwater; ika; ikan; life; nage; tebhu
• Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale and Challenged the Order of Nature by Anderson, E. N. (2010) - 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
• ‘Fish’ and ‘Non-Fish’ in Lio and Nage: Folk-Intermediates and Folk-Generics in the Fish Classification of Two Eastern Indonesian Peoples by Forth, Gregory (2017) - Formally, Lio fish taxonomy closely resembles that of the Nage of central Flores, discussed in a previous paper (Forth 2012), but differs insofar as several kinds of freshwater fish, all members of the Gobioidei, are subsumed in a named folk-intermediate taxon labeled mbo. To complete this overview of Lio fish fauna, more should be said about eels. Keywords: classification; ethnobiology; fish; folk; freshwater; generics; ika; lio; mbo; nage; nake; names; table

• The Effects of Food Processing on the Archaeological Visibility of Maize: An Experimental Study of Carbonization of Lime-treated Maize Kernels by Dezendorf, Caroline (2013) - What this study does conclude is that alkali processed kernels, which are not brittle and are less likely to fragment, are more readily found at archaeological sites than unprocessed kernels. Nevertheless, this study does provide conclusive evidence that alkali processed kernels, when carbon- ized, will demonstrate increased widths, increased thickness, and loss of pericarps and points of attach- ment (indicative of alkali processing). Keywords: alkali; carbonization; kernels; king; maize; processing; thickness; varieties; width
• The Paleobiolinguistics of Maize (Zea mays L.) by Brown, Cecil H.; Clement, Charles R.; Epps, Patience; Luedeling, Eike; Wichmann, Søren (2014) - 53 Years Before Present Proto‐Language Proto‐Word for Maize (NR = Not Reconstructable) Homeland Center Geographic Coordinates Family Affilia on Proto‐Word Source 6178  Siouan‐Catawba  NR  43.83  ‐101.83  Siouan‐Catawba    5944  Iroquoian  NR  42.75  ‐76.17  Iroquoian    5554  Algic  NR  42.67  ‐73.5  Algic    4828  Caddoan  NR  33.33  ‐97.33  Caddoan    4018  Uto‐Aztecan  *suŋu  27.5  ‐110.25  Uto‐Aztecan  1  3827  Salishan  NR  49.25  ‐122.5  Salishan    3663  U an  NR  38.33  ‐123  U an    3472  Southern Uto‐Aztecan  *sunu  27.5  ‐110.25  Uto‐Aztecan  1  3434  Kiowa‐Tanoan  *Ɂia, *p’ǝa  37  ‐99  Kiowa‐Tanoan  2, 3  3343  Algonquian  NR  42.67  ‐73.5  Algic    3176  N Iroquoian  NR  42.75  ‐76.17  Iroquoian    3169  Siouan  NR  43.83  ‐101.83  Siouan‐Catawba    3035  N Caddoan  NR  33.33  ‐97.33  Caddoan    2980  Interior Salish  NR  48  ‐117  Salishan    2725  Sahap an  NR  46  ‐116  Sahap an    2678  Central Algonquin  NR  43  ‐83  Algic    2576  Northern Uto‐Aztecan  *kuma  39  ‐109  Uto‐Aztecan  3  2500  Yukian  NR  38.5  ‐122.5  Yukian    2459  Central Salish  NR  49.25  ‐122.5  Salishan    2400  Sonoran  *sunu  27.5  ‐110.25  Uto‐Aztecan  1  2062  Athabaskan  NR  53.75  ‐123.5  Athabaskan    1926  Southeastern Siouan  NR  36.03  ‐89.39  Siouan‐Catawba    1865  Yuman  *tayač  32.67  ‐116.17  Yuman  Authors  1864  N Interior Salish  NR  50.75  ‐122  Salishan    1850  Missouri River Siouan  NR  47  ‐108  Siouan‐Catawba    1839  Ofo‐Biloxi  NR  30.5  ‐88.67  Siouan‐Catawba    1827  Taracahitan  *sunu  27.75  ‐108.67  Uto‐Aztecan  1  1809  Pawnee  NR  41  ‐98.67  Caddoan    1798  Mississippi Valley Siouan  NR  43.83  ‐101.83  Siouan‐Catawba    1737  Numic  *kum‐  39  ‐109  Uto‐Aztecan  3  1724  S Interior Salish  NR  48  ‐117  Salishan    1720  Muskogean  NR  34  ‐85  Muskogean    1673  Five Na ons  NR  42.75  ‐76.17  Iroquoian    1587  Cupan  NR  33.17  ‐116.5  Uto‐Aztecan    1573  Southern Numic  *kum‐  39  ‐109  Uto‐Aztecan  3  1526  Fox‐Kickapoo‐Sauk  NR  43  ‐83  Algic    1378  Mohawk‐Oneida  NR  43  ‐75.67  Iroquoian    1295  Ojibwa  *mandaamin  47  ‐89  Algic  Authors  1245  Delta‐Californian Yuman  NR  32.67  ‐116.7  Yuman    1241  E Miwokan  NR  38  ‐121  U an    1213  Tarahumaran  *sunu  27.75  ‐108.67  Uto‐Aztecan  1  1188  Eastern Muskogean  NR  34  ‐85  Muskogean    1173  Seneca‐Onondaga  NR  42.75  ‐76.75  Iroquoian    1148  Central Numic  *kum‐  37  ‐117  Uto‐Aztecan  3  1005  55 Years Before Present Proto‐Language Proto‐Word for Maize (NR = Not Reconstructable) Homeland Center Geographic Coordinates Family Affilia on Proto‐ Word Source 6591  Otomanguean  *kwau, *s(a7)ai(n), *nu  18  ‐96.92  Otomanguean  1  5498  Popolocan‐ Zapotecan  *nu‐  17.17  ‐96.17  Otomanguean  Authors  5357  Amuzgo‐Mixtecan  *nu‐  16.92  ‐97.58  Otomanguean  Authors  4542  Mixtecan  *ndi‐Ɵe(m)34  16.92  ‐97.58  Otomanguean  2  4274  Keywords: america; authors; brown; ethnobiology; languages; maize; new; proto
• Starch Granule Size and Morphology as a Proxy for Water Regime Influence on Zea mays by Wilks, Stefania; Louderback, Lisbeth A.; Boomgarden, Shannon (2021) - Starch granule size distributions (100% and top 20%) from Plots 2 and 6 are shown in Figure 3. Starch granule size is, therefore, a potentially important environmental and archaeologi- cal proxy because it can evaluate the relative performance of prehistoric farming in a specific place and time and it can serve as another piece of evidence in understanding the role of irrigation in the past. Keywords: creek; et al; granules; irrigation; maize; plot; range; size; starch; water
• Phaseolus vulgaris Seeds from the Late Sixteenth–Early Seventeenth Century AD Ancestral Oneida Diable Site, New York by Hart, John P. (2022) - There are no records tying the sample to the pit, but this is the only feature Gibson (1991) mentions with a substantial amount of common bean seeds. These results suggest that the site’s occupation straddled the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries AD, coincident with ethnohistorical accounts of Northern Iroquoian Three Sisters agriculture suggesting the dietary importance of common bean seeds. Keywords: bean; cotyledons; diable; hart; iroquoian; kernels; maize; pit; seeds; site; york
• Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland. By Gayle J. Fritz. 2019. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 228 pp. by Lopinot, Neal H. (2024) - The Introduction and 12 chapters in this book present a multifaceted chronicle of the evolution of food production and cultivation practices leading up to, during, and after early Cahokia. Throughout these two periods, there is substantial evidence for the growing importance of EAC crop production in relation to socioreligious interaction, and the importance of women as the primary manual laborers contributing to the development of more political complexity. Keywords: american; cahokia; eac; fritz; maize
• Paleoethnobotany and Ancient Alcohol Production: A Mini-Review by Biwer, Matthew E; VanDerwarker, Amber M (2015) - 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. We emphasize a multi-proxy approach to research on alcohol production because of the limitations inherent in using organic remains. Keywords: alcohol; beverages; evidence; maize; production
• Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture: Understanding the Past for the Future. Edited by Scott E. Ingram and Robert C. Hunt. 2015. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 392 pp. by Gillreath-Brown, Andrew (2016) - Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture offers a fresh perspective by synthesizing past research and also presenting new methods and directions for future arid lands agricultural research. “Utilitarian archaeology,” which focuses on how archaeological data and research can contribute to solving modern problems, is becoming more im- portant as funding and scientific agencies desire to see the merit of archaeological research beyond the discipline itself. Keywords: agriculture; arid; farming; maize; new; past; research; university

• Wild Cultures: A Comparison between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures by Contreras, Diana Rocío Carvajal (2013) - 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; comparison; culture; human
• Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia. By Cynthia T. Fowler. 2016. Lexington Books, Lanham. 137 pp. by Franco, F. Merlin (2018) - The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange. 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
• »Their dogs are of an alert and intelligent breed« An Ethnocynology of Tyvan Pastoralists in Inner Asia by Svanberg, Ingvar; Soyan Peemot , Victoria (2022) - The authors investigate especially the dogs’ responsibilities in taiga and steppe habitats and how the language reveals these responsibilities by focusing on distinctions between hunting dogs (aŋčï ït) and camp guarding dogs (kodančï ït). Olsen also recorded some calling words for dogs in their language: kuh-kuh-kuh (Olsen 1915:81). Keywords: breed; dogs; ethnobiology; human; hunting; kodančï; livestock; pastoralists; peemot; relationships; research; svanberg; taiga; tyva; xava
• Ethnobiology in One Health by Quinlan, Marsha B.; Quinlan, Robert J. (2016) - Ethnobiology’s connection to human health is inherent, if not implicit. Importantly for human health, they consume meat or milk from animals recently treated with VAs. Keywords: animal; ethnobiology; health; human; medicine; research; science
• Toward an Ethnoarchaeomalacology of Achatina in East Africa by Walz, Jonathan (2017) - Items and debris of land snail shell at ancient sites in tropical Africa continue to go underreported or are treated relatively simplistically by researchers. Interest in land snails and their roles among contemporary East African communities arose as the result of two archaeological activities: 1) a systematic survey of 44 km2 of the landscape, during which living land snails, deceased land snails, and fragments of land snail shell were found on the surface of scores of Holocene Epoch archaeological sites and 2) excavations at two iron-using, farming (also known as “Iron Age”) archaeological sites: Kwa Mgogo and Gonja Maore (Figure 1). Keywords: africa; east; fulica; human; land; land snail; shell; sites; snail; tanzania; zigua

• The Open Science Network in Ethnobiology: Growing the Influence of Ethnobiology by Quave, Cassandra L.; Barfield, Keri; Ross, Nanci; Hall, Karen C. (2015) - The lessons learned through these interactions have not only aided those engaged in OSN activities, but have also impacted the broader scientific and academic community as the OSN membership has brought back lessons learned to integrate into activities at their own institutions. For example, through OSN events and activities over the past five years, a number of early career ethnobiologists have greatly benefited as scientists and educators from interactions with elder mentors, peers and network resources (in particular, teaching resources). Keywords: education; ethnobiology; network; osn; research; science; society
• The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. By David Wootton. 2015. Harper Collins, New York. 784 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2016) - 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. The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. Keywords: china; new; science; west; wootton

• Viking Games and Sámi Pastimes: Making Balls of Fomitopsis betulina by Svanberg, Ingvar; Lidström, Isak (2019) - Several mentions of knattleikr (which literally means “ball game”) in the Icelandic saga literature confirm that ball games occurred frequently even during the Viking age in Scandinavia (Martin 2003; Thurber 2015). One such game was a kind of ball game, in which they used large, soft bracket fungi that grow on the trunks of mountain birch trees (Betula pubescens var. pumila). Keywords: ball; birch; bracket; conk; ethnobiology; folk; fungi; games; lidström; research; saami; stockholm; svanberg; sweden
• A Reply to Whitney's Review of Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird by Forth, Gregory (2021) - As for the claim that Nage culture is now virtually lost and has been assimilated by “more dominant regional ethnic groups” (Whitney 2018:104), I am at a loss to know what this means or on what information it is based. As I also demonstrate, “mammal” (excluding humans) must be understood as a largely covert folk taxon contrasting with other life-form taxa, which although not consistently named, Nage sometimes distinguish with the label lako wawi, “dogs [and] pigs” (Forth 2016:61–65, 141, 142, 146, 153–54). Keywords: folk; forth; nage; whitney
• Eastern Sumbanese Bird Classification and Nomenclature: Additions and Revisions by Forth, Gregory (2016) - 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. More directive questions concerning particular birds and bird names were put to 14 men and one woman mostly selected opportun- istically—seven from Kambera; five from Rindi, and three from Lewa. Keywords: bird; eastern; folk; forth; informants; information; kaka; kambera; onvlee; rawa; rindi; sumbanese; term

• The Paleobiolinguistics of Domesticated Chili Pepper (Capsicum spp.) by Brown, Cecil H.; Clement, Charles R.; Epps, Patience; Luedeling, Eike; Wichmann, Søren (2013) - The discrepancies between ASJP estimated dates and the 52 calibration dates are on average 29 percent as large as the estimated dates themselves, a figure that does not differ significantly among language families of the world; also, younger dates tend to be more accurate than older ones (Holman et al. 2011). Rensch, C. R. 1976. Keywords: america; arawakan; authors; capsicum; chili; family; languages; linguistics; pepper; proto; south; southern; uto‐aztecan; words
• Ethics in Ethnobiology Publication by Welch, James R. (2012) - /UKR /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. As the ISE code of ethics emphasizes, due credit to research consultants is a standard of ethical research in ethnobiology. Keywords: adobe; authors; ethics; ethnobiology; research
• The Paleobiolinguistics of Domesticated Manioc (Manihot esculenta) by Brown, Cecil H.; Clement, Charles R.; Epps, Patience; Luedeling, Eike; Wichmann, Søren (2013) - Brown et al. 2013b).1 Comparison of words for biological taxa from languages of the same language family facilitates reconstruction of the biological vocabulary of the family’s ancient proto-language. Notes 1This is the second PBL study published in Ethnobiolo- gy Letters, the first treating chili pepper (Brown et al. 2013a). Keywords: america; arawakan; authors; brown; languages; manioc; proto; south

• A’uwẽ (Xavante) Hunting Calls: A Vocal Repertoire for Ethnozoological Communication and Coordination in the Brazilian Cerrado by Welch, James R. (2020) - 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

• The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved. By Raymond Pierotti and Brandy R. Fogg. 2017. Yale University Press, New Haven. 326 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2018) - They also cover Siberia and Central Asia, where the Turks claim descent from wolves and the Mongols from the marriage of a gray wolf to a fallow doe—courage and loyalty united with beauty and grace. Dogs and wolves are totally distinct animals to the Coppingers, which flies in the face of science and common experience. Keywords: dogs; fogg; humans; pierotti; wolf; wolves
• Do Indigenous American Peoples’ Stories Inform the Study of Dog Domestication? by Mech, L. David (2019) - I (1) present arguments and evidence that question the value of indigenous American stories for drawing conclusions about the relationship between early humans and wolves 14,000 yrs BP; (2) demonstrate how indigenous American stories contradict documented information about wolf biology, behavior, and known interactions with humans; and (3) point out important information not considered by the authors about wolf attacks on humans and the importance of rabies in the wolf-human relationship. Another friendly wolf behavior featured in some of the stories or historical accounts related by Fogg et al. (2015) is wolves taking care of humans in trouble. Keywords: et al; fogg; humans; mech; pierotti; stories; wolf; wolves
• The Role of Myth in Understanding Nature by Pierotti, Raymond (2016) - Although Numic beliefs appear “irrational” to Western society, they are more attuned to twenty-first century ecological and evolutionary thought than balance in nature, which lay at the root of Western ecological ideas until the 1980s. From Western scientific tradition, I examine the “Balance of Nature,” which dominated ecology and conservation biology from the 1850s until the 1990s. Keywords: balance; ecology; idea; myth; nature; pierotti; press; thinking; tradition; university; wolf

• Cultural Keystone Places and Historical Ecology: Conceptual Benefits and Ethical Impacts by Wolverton, Steve; Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda (2025) - Ethnobiology Letters 16(2):1–6 1 Perspectives Special Issue: Historical Ecology & Cultural Keystone Places way to conceive of a CKP, for example, is as a landscape that has deep meaning to one or multiple groups’ identities, imbued over centuries or millennia, that has implications for people’s heritage and prosperity (or future well-being [Laluk et al. 2022; Supernant et al. 2020]). Ethnobiology Letters 16(2):1–6 2 Perspectives Special Issue: Historical Ecology & Cultural Keystone Places concepts for the study of human-environmental interactions (but see Balée and Erickson 2006; Patterson 1994). Keywords: cultural; ecology; ethnobiology; keystone; places; research; sufficiency; wolverton
• The Ecology of Pastoralism. Edited by P. Nick Kardulias. 2015. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. 272 pp. by Rokpelnis, Kārlis (2016) - 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

• Latin American Society of Ethnobiology’s Code of Ethics by Committee, SOLAE Ethics; Medinaceli, Armando; Cano, Eréndira J.; Argueta, Arturo; Sanabria, Olga Lucia (2018) - 1 Fo rm u la ti o n o f C o E V er si o n 1 So ci eti es in B ra zi l, M ex ic o , C o lo m b ia , an d E cu ad o r o ffi ci al ly ad o p t th e SO LA E C o E C o E V er si o n 1 is p u b - lis h ed in E tn o b io lo gi a V o l. 1 3 SOLAE Ethics Committee et al. 2018. Latin American Society of Ethnobiology’s Code of Ethics SOLAE Ethics Committee et al. 2018. Keywords: ethics; research; solae
• The Long Program for Ethics in Ethnobiology by Fowler, Cynthia T.; Herron, Scott (2018) - Kelly Bannister has been a prime mover in the ISE ethics program and, from that position, is able to give readers of her article in this special issue both some background and some advice for the future evolution of ethnobiological ethics. During the 2016 eeLab, Jessica Dolan shared these thoughts about the centrality of relationships in ethnobiological ethics: Relationships that happen in the course of research are real relationships. Keywords: ethics; ethnobiology; issue; society; soe

• Possibilities for Multispecies Approaches in Coffee Landscapes by Jose Ramon Becerra Vera (2021) - 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: approaches; coffee; ethnobiology; humans; multispecies; studies
• Reconstructing Meat Consumption through Biomarker Analyses of Paleofeces by Battillo, Jenna M.; Fisher, Abigail E. (2015) - All control samples (including comparative modern human fecal samples, human paleofeces, and Reconstructing Meat Consumption through Biomarker Analyses of Paleofeces Jenna M. Battillo1* and Abigail E. Fisher1 Author Addresses: 1Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, 3225 Daniel Avenue, Heroy Hall, Room 408, Dallas, TX 75205-1437, USA. *Corresponding author: jbattillo@smu.edu Received: May 6, 2015 Volume: 6(1):111-113 Published: August 25, 2015 © 2015 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
• Longitudinal Taphonomic Studies of Mammal Carcasses from the Rio Salado Valley, Mendoza, Argentina by Otaola, Clara; Tripaldi, Alfonsina (2016) - Carcass C3, located on a colluvial slope, exhibited a small amount of bone burial, which increased over time. Excavation at this site allows us to infer a high rate of sediment deposition and also demonstrate that there are differences in bone burial in this small area. Keywords: argentina; bones; carcass; carcasses; figure; meadow; observations; otaola; processes; rock; shelter; slope; studies; study; weathering

• An Interview with Roy Ellen by Benessaiah, Nejm (2014) - 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

• Runne-Beana: Dog Herds Ethnographer by Anderson, Myrdene (2016) - 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

• Empire of Cotton: A Global History. By Sven Beckert. 2014. Vintage, New York, NY. 615 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2017) - As a history of world cotton trade and manufacture during those Euro-American centuries, this book is superb, and will remain a landmark. Slavery also accompanied cotton in Brazil, and in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. Keywords: anderson; beckert; cotton; history; slavery; states; united; world
• Moral Ecology of a Forest: The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation. By José Martínez-Reyes. 2016. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 216 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2017) - I know Tres Reyes somewhat, know some of the people Martínez-Reyes mentions, and followed some of the plans and NGO activities he discusses. José Martínez-Reyes has worked for many years in the tiny, isolated community of Tres Reyes, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Keywords: anderson; martínez; reyes; university
• 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. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2018) - 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
• Médicine et Magie dans le Sud-Est de Madagascar: Les Devins-Guérisseurs et l’Usage des Plantes. By Philippe Beaujard. 2024. Sépia, Paris. 619 pp. by Anderson, Gene (2025) - Histoire et Voyages des Plantes Cultivèes à Madagascar avant le XVIe Siècle. (see Anderson 2004 for ecology and related debates in Tanala country and elsewhere in east Madagascar, and a bibliography of related studies; see Harper 2002 for a sad story of bullying the Tanala in the name of conservation.) Keywords: anderson; beaujard; madagascar; ombiasy

• The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2000 Years. By Ulbe Bosma. 2023. Harvard University Press, Cambridge. 448 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2024) - Sucrose is the sugar of choice largely because sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum (“sugar of the drug store”), makes it. Sugar from sugar cane has a slight health advantage, because the enzyme action to break it down takes some time; it gives us a sugar rush, but not as bad as that from fructose. Keywords: bosma; cane; fructose; new; press; sugar; university; world

• Diversity and Demographics of Zooarchaeologists: Results from a Digital Survey by Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E. (2015) - 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; research; respondents; survey; women; zooarchaeologists; zooarchaeology

• The Paleobiolinguistics of the Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) by Brown, Cecil H.; Clement, Charles R.; Epps, Patience; Luedeling, Eike; Wichmann, Søren (2014) - Five species contain domesticated populations: P. acutifolius A. Gray (tepary bean); P. coccineus L. (scarlet runner bean); P. lunatus L. (lima bean); P. polyanthus Greenman (year bean); P. vulgaris L. (common bean). 106 Years Before Present Proto‐Language Proto‐Word for Bean (NR = Not Reconstructable) Homeland Center Geographic Coordi‐ nates Family Affilia on Proto‐Word Source 6178  Siouan‐Catawba  NR  43.83  ‐101.83  Siouan‐Catawba    5944  Iroquoian  NR  42.75  ‐76.17  Iroquoian    5554  Algic  NR  42.67  ‐73.5  Algic    4828  Caddoan  NR  33.33  ‐97.33  Caddoan    4018  Uto‐Aztecan  NR  27.5  ‐110.25  Uto‐Aztecan    3827  Salishan  NR  49.25  ‐122.5  Salishan    3663  U an  NR  38.33  ‐123  U an    3472  Southern Uto‐Aztecan  NR  27.5  ‐110.25  Uto‐Aztecan    3434  Kiowa‐Tanoan  NR  37  ‐99  Kiowa‐Tanoan    3343  Algonquian  NR  42.67  ‐73.5  Algic    3176  N Iroquoian  NR  42.75  ‐76.17  Iroquoian    3169  Siouan  NR  43.83  ‐101.83  Siouan‐Catawba    3035  N Caddoan  NR  33.33  ‐97.33  Caddoan    2980  Interior Salish  NR  48  ‐117  Salishan    2725  Sahap an  NR  46  ‐116  Sahap an    2678  Central Algonquin  NR  43  ‐83  Algic    2576  Northern Uto‐Aztecan  NR  39  ‐109  Uto‐Aztecan    2500  Yukian  NR  38.5  ‐122.5  Yukian    2459  Central Salish  NR  49.25  ‐122.5  Salishan    2400  Sonoran  NR  27.5  ‐110.25  Uto‐Aztecan    2141  Miwokan  NR  38.33  ‐123  U an    2062  Athabaskan  NR  53.75  ‐123.5  Athabaskan    1926  Southeastern Siouan  NR  36.03  ‐89.39  Siouan‐Catawba    1865  Yuman  NR  32.67  ‐116.17  Yuman    1864  N Interior Salish  NR  50.75  ‐122  Salishan    1850  Missouri River Siouan  NR  47  ‐108  Siouan‐Catawba    1839  Ofo‐Biloxi  NR  30.5  ‐88.67  Siouan‐Catawba    1827  Taracahitan  *muni  27.75  ‐108.67  Uto‐Aztecan  Authors  1809  Pawnee  * Keywords: america; bean; brown; dates; ethnobiology; languages; mexico; phaseolus; proto; vulgaris

• Exploring Environments through Water: An Ethno-Hydrography of the Tibesti Mountains (Central Sahara) by Musch, Tilman (2021) - Such maps have neither scale nor indications of orientation or a frame of reference (Golledge 1999:13), but depict space in a way that “anyone knowing the country” could understand which specific features are being referred to, as Burland (1947:288) states in regard to similar representations of river systems. According to followers of the human turn in geography, maps have to be understood as “practices,” and they “proceed from action” (Kitchin et al. 2009:1). Keywords: aozu; environments; ethnobiology; figure; map; mapping; maps; mountains; musch; research; river; space; teda; tibesti; valleys; water

• Ethnobotanical Study of the Mexican Laurel in El Chico National Park, Mexico: A Quantitative Perspective by Ortega-Meza, Daniela; Pulido-Silva, María Teresa; Costa de Arruda, Joari; da Silva, Carolina Joana (2019) - The use most mentioned was seasoning (95%); 53% mentioned cultural uses, 42% mentioned medicinal uses, and only 2% of those interviewed mentioned crafts. This is the case of cultural uses. Keywords: actors; h o; laurel; mexican; n d; o n; study; uses

• Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911. Edited by Roel Sterckx, Martina Siebert, and Dagmar Schäfer. 2019. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 277 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2021) - The following chapter, Roel Sterckx’ “Animal to Edible: The Ritualization of Animals in Early China” (pp. 46–63), reveals in fascinating detail the exceedingly complex ways that animals were turned first into sacrifices to gods and ancestors and then into food for the living. It includes a short introduction, followed by 12 chapters on various aspects of Chinese animal knowledge. Keywords: animals; china; chinese; horse
• The Monkeys and Parrots of Gold Rush-era California by Conrad, Cyler (2022) - Although it is possible that portions of the immigrant Gold Rush population were familiar with these animals through travel across Central America or South America en route to San Francisco (Delgado 1996), for most prospective miners they were animals of fascination, perhaps only understood through stories, drawings, or circuses from home. And, while the modern ‘wild’ parrots of San Francisco (Bittner 2007) almost certainly do not relate in any way to these imported Gold Rush birds, the long-term record of exotic animals present in northern California speaks to the social structure created by, and evolved from, these human-animal relationships established during the Gold Rush era (Figure 2). Keywords: animals; anon; california; conrad; era; francisco; gold; parrots; rush; san
• Forms of Becoming: The Evolutionary Biology of Development by Pierotti, Raymond (2012) - 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. Minelli points out that this debate was settled in Cuvier’s favor; more important to us today, the debate was reopened during the last years of the twentieth century, when the discovery of Hox genes revealed that all living creatures, and certainly animals, did in fact share a master plan. Keywords: animals; biology; development; devo; genes; minelli

• Yak Domestication: A Review of Linguistic, Archaeological, and Genetic Evidence by Jacques, Guillaume; d'Alpoim Guedes, Jade; Zhang, Shuya (2021) - Below, we review the archaeological, genetic, and linguistic 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

• The Dogs of CA-SRI-2: Osteometry of Canis familiaris from Santa Rosa Island, California by Hofman, Courtney; Rick, Torben (2014) - 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
• How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. By Eduardo Kohn. 2013. University of California Press, Berkeley. 288 pp. by Flores, Katie; Medinaceli, Armando; Thiel, Amanda (2016) - By Eduardo Kohn. 2013. By Eduardo Kohn. 2013. Keywords: anthropology; dogs; kohn

• Tusk or Bone? An Example of Ivory Substitute in the Wildlife Trade by Sims, Margaret E.; Baker, Barry W.; Hoesch, Robert M. (2011) - It is no surprise that bone material continues to appear in wildlife forensic casework. The carved metatarsals were most similar to a large bovid, which based on its upper shaft diameter (approximately 32 mm) suggests domestic cow (Bos taurus), a species often used as a legal and ready source for bone material in the wildlife trade. Keywords: analysis; bone; identification; items; ivory; trade; tusk; wildlife
• Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis by Barker, Andrew; Dombrosky, Jonathan; Chaput, Dale; Venbles, Barney; Wolverton, Steve; Stevens, Stanley M. (2015) - Immunoassay and LC-MS The most commonly applied approach in the realm of protein residue analysis is immunoassay (e.g., Kooyman et al. 2001; Lowenstein et al. 2006; Marlar et al. 2000), which has the advantage of finding “a needle in the haystack” of protein residues (such as blood on stone tools or food proteins in cooking pottery) within a matrix of exogenous sources (e.g., soil microbe proteins). Society of Ethnobiology Abstract: Identification of protein residues from prehistoric cooking pottery using mass spectrometry is challenging because proteins are removed from original tissues, are degraded from cooking, may be poorly preserved due to diagenesis, and occur in a palimpsest of exogenous soil proteins. Keywords: analysis; bone; chain; cluster; collagen; doi; et al; identification; mass; protein; residues
• A Look from the Inside: MicroCT Analysis of Burned Bones by Boschin, Francesco; Zanolli, Clément; bernardini, Federico; Princivalle, Francesco; Tuniz, Claudio (2015) - Burned bones and burned bone fragments can be abundant in archaeological sites and their presence can provide insight into preservation conditions and processing decisions (Riedel and Tecchiati 2005). The analysis of burned bones in archaeological samples can shed light on hominid evolution, and culinary as well as ritual traditions (Berna et al. 2012; Cain 2005; Clark and Ligouis 2010; McCutcheon 1992; Steffen and Mackie 2005; Keywords: analysis; bone; burning; oven; research; specimens; talus; volume; vulpes

• At Home on the Waves: Human Habitation of the Sea from the Mesolithic to Today. Edited by Tanya J. King and Gary Robinson. 2019. Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford. 392 pp. by Narchi, Nemer E. (2022) - Such a committed way of participating, that also resonates with Ingold’s (2017) ideas of participant observation as an educational experience, give the author profound and intimate insights into why Scottish fishers build significant relationships through their interactions with underwater places. Howard presents the reader with a comprehensive description on the production of Scottish underwater places. Keywords: home; places; sea; underwater
• Expanding Cultural and Natural Heritage Through Archaeology: An Application of Cultural Keystone Places (CKP) in the Medieval Mediterranean by Forste, Kathleen M.; Pérez-Juez, Amalia; Smith, Alexander J. (2025) - From an economic perspective, there is opportunity to develop more cultural and gastronomic programs and parks featuring the medieval Islamic contribution to Menorca heritage, simultaneously broadening appeal while making an important addition to the island’s historical narrative. Revisita de Menorca 102:181–203. DOI:10.60940/rdm.2023.v102.08. Keywords: archaeology; ckp; cultural; de menorca; et al; ethnobiology; forste; heritage; islamic; island; juez; keystone; kirchner; medieval; menorca; period; places; pérez; research; spain

• Does Cognition Still Matter in Ethnobiology? by Ludwig, David (2018) - 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

• Palaeoethnobotanical Data from the High Mountainous Early Bronze Age Settlement of Tsaghkasar-1 (Mt. Aragats, Armenia) by Hovsepyan, Roman (2011) - Trench / UF  1/2  3/2  3/35 3/37  3/38  3/31  Context  Building  (Str.1) Building  (Str.1) ‐ ‐  Pit  Pit  Depth of samples, cm  ‐ ‐ ‐ 338  80‐90  130‐140 80‐90 200‐210 Sample volume, liter  520 165 75 30 80  50  50 10 60 Concentration of carpological finds, per 10 liter sediment*   2.62 0,3 0,1 1,0 0,0  1,2  17,0 2,0 5,7 Plant taxa  Finds  Total  136 5 1 3 0  6  85 2 34 Cultivated plants                         Triticeae spp.  grains fragments (~, ml)  2,7 0,5 0,1 ‐ ‐  0,5  1,0 0,1 0,5 Triticum sp.  grains  11 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐  1  4 ‐ 6 internodes fragments  3 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐  ‐  3 ‐ ‐ Triticum sp.1 (hulled)  spikelet bases  4 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐  ‐  4 ‐ ‐ Triticum cf. aestivum s.l.  grains  19 1 1 ‐ ‐  ‐  17 ‐ ‐ Triticum turgidum/aestivum (naked)  internodes fragments  16 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐  ‐  14 1 1 Triticum aestivum L. (naked)  internode  1 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐  ‐  1 ‐ ‐ Hordeum vulgare L.  grains  22 1 ‐ ‐ ‐  1  14 ‐ 6 Weedy and wild plants                         Buglossoides arvensis (L.) Johnst.   (= Lithospermum arvense L.)**  erems  13 ‐ ‐ ‐ ‐  1  10 ‐ 2 Alkanna orientalis (L.) Boiss. Keywords: age; agriculture; armenia; bronze; hovsepyan; settlement; triticum; tsaghkasar-1

• Sushi in Cortez: Interdisciplinary Essays on Mesa Verde. Edited by David Taylor and Steve Wolverton. 2015. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 155 pp. by Veteto, James (2017) - According to archaeological explanations, ancient Mesa Verde people had no choice but to vacate their communities as material factors forced their hand. A central question alluded to and discussed throughout this volume centers on narratives surrounding the ‘collapse’ of Mesa Verde culture in 1300 AD. Keywords: essay; ethnobiology; landscape; mesa; project; pueblo; swentzell; team; verde; veteto; wolverton

• Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health: Emerging Crisis and Systemic Solutions by Smith, Kate (2012) - Chapter 2 addresses the destruction of traditional foodways and subsistence patterns by changing climate, such as those of the Inuit in the Northern realms, an area where changes in seasonal weather patterns and surface temperatures has already had a measurable effect on human lifeways (Leduc 2010), but it is in chapters 3 through 6 that the authors’ contribution to the conversation about how human health will be affected by climate change becomes evident. A large portion of this section focuses on the structural power disparities that, when coupled with the associated ills of climate change, cause even greater health issues in the marginalized populations. Keywords: change; climate; health

• Patterns of Variation in the Seed Morphology of Iva annua var. macrocarpa, an Extinct North American Domesticate by Weiland, Andrew W.; Gremillion, Kristen J. (2018) - Domesticated marshelder achenes at Napoleon Hollow and Riverton (3370 ± 40 cal BP) sites in Illinois predate its first appearance on the Appalachian Plateau of eastern Kentucky, which comes from the Hooton Hollow rock shelter and has been directly dated to 3315 cal BP (Gremillion 1996). When interpreted literally, it would take an average of 667 years for marshelder achenes to grow one millimeter longer, while it would take an average of 960 years for achenes to grow one millimeter wider. Keywords: achene; appalachian; domestication; ethnobiology; gremillion; length; marshelder; north; plateau; sites; size; variation; width; wild; years

• Mentoring is an Intellectual Pillar of Ethnobiology by Flachs, Andrew; Olson, Elizabeth A.; Marston, John M.; Gillreath-Brown, Andrew (2019) - 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: code; conduct; ethnobiology; field; members; mentors; research; society; students
• In Memoriam: Steven Alec Weber by Emslie, Steven D. (2020) - Ethnobiology Letters 11(1):45–47 46 Interviews & Reflections smashed into the driver’s side of the car, and it took Steve several months to fully recover, but he returned to Flagstaff that fall and continued his Master’s research, graduating in July 1981 with a thesis titled “A Palynological Interpretation of the Sinagua and their Changing Environment” (Weber 1981). Over the summer and by fall 1978, Steve developed a strong interest in ethnobotany and palynology and began working towards a Master’s degree in the lab of Dr. Richard Hevly at NAU to extract pollen from archaeological soil samples, including those we had collected that summer at Elden Pueblo. Keywords: arizona; ethnobiology; society; steve; weber
• Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings by Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Byrnes, Jarrett E. (2011) - We reasoned that holding biennial conferences would reduce the carbon cost of scientific meetings by ~50%. We then compared baseline carbon costs to CO2 emissions resulting from US attendees driving to regional meetings. Keywords: carbon; co2; conferences; cost; emissions; footprint; meetings; national; regional; scientists; societies; society; tons; travel

• Continuity and Knowledge Transmission on the Northwest Coast: Insights from Wet Site EkTb-9, Triquet Island, N̓úláw̓itx̌v Tribal Area, British Columbia, Canada by Gauvreau, Alisha (2025) - Following this trend, this case study provides a description of the wooden artifact assemblage from wet site EkTb-9, located on Triquet Island in the N̓úláw ̓itx̌v Tribal area of Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation Territory on the NWC of BC (Gauvreau 2024). The relationship between the archaeological past, ethnobotanical research, and wet sites on the Northwest Coast (NWC) of British Columbia (BC), Canada, is complex and multifaceted. Keywords: british; coast; columbia; ektb-9; et al; gauvreau; island; mclaren; northwest; nwc; research; site; wet; wood

• A Note on the Montessori of Ethnobiology, Hal Conklin by Anderson, Myrdene (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 Anderson1* 1Department of Anthropology and Program in Linguistics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. Merriam- Webster had beaten Hal Conklin to the draw, securing the final warehouse-full for themselves. Keywords: color; conklin; ethnobiology; hal; paper; time

• Paleobiolinguistics of New World Crops and the Otomanguean Language Family by Brown, Cecil H. (2015) - Indeed, a reasonable case could be made that OM languages constitute a sprachbund (language diffusion area) rather than a genetic group. Society of Ethnobiology Abstract: Several studies recently published in Ethnobiology Letters treat respectively the paleobiolinguistics of chili pepper, manioc, maize, and the common bean in New World language families. Keywords: ethnobiology; language; paleobiolinguistics

• Prescribed Fire Use Among Black Landowners in the Red Hills Region, USA by Perkins, La' Portia J.; Coates, T. Adam; Hiers, J. Kevin; Fowler, Cynthia T.; Bigelow, Seth W. (2023) - 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. Given the distinctive reliance of the region on prescribed fire, it is noteworthy that the combined issues of Black land loss, underrepresentation, and incentives for using prescribed fire on private lands in the southeastern United States have generated questions about diversity and inclusion in landowner outreach. Keywords: b u; black; c o; fire; h u; landowners; n e; o n; o u; p u; u rc; u rn

• Current and Future Applications of Genetic, Archaeological, and Ethnobotanical Data to Uncovering Avocado Domestication by Wann, Kevin W.; Thakar, Heather B. (2024) - Ethnobiology Letters 15(1):53–57 55 Short Topical Reviews further documented avocado fruits as being a common ingredient in the daily consumption of tostadas and carnitas in Western and Southeastern Mexico, respectively (Figure 1; Salazar et al. 2016; Zizumbo-Villarreal et al. 2016). Abstract The domestication of fruit trees is a topic of increasing significance in anthropological research. Keywords: avocado; domestication; fruit

• Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird: Explorations in the Folk Zoology of an Eastern Indonesian People. By Gregory Forth. 2016. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 375 pp. by Whitney, Cory W. (2018) - Ethnobiology Le ers 9(2):103–104 103 Reviews animals including humans and nonhuman mammals (although Nage recognize biological mammalian similarities between them). Forth shows that Nage animal taxonomy is based on universal cognitive principles of classification, based on perceived similarities. Keywords: bird; forth; nage

• Zooarchaeological Approaches to the Identification of Bone Fat Production in the Archaeological Record by Peres, Tanya M. (2018) - There are many reasons hunter-gatherer economies included bone grease as a dietary staple; nutritionally it is dense in energy and fatty acids and is an important source of trace vitamins and minerals. From ethnographic and historic documents we know that bone grease was used industrially for tanning hides, fuel, tallow, skin or hair lotion, mosquito repellant, in medicinal recipes, in paints, and for polishing bone and stone implements (Battle 1922; Grinnell 1972). Keywords: bone; extraction; fat; grease; marrow; outram
• Using 3D Microscopy to Analyze Experimental Cut Marks on Animal Bones Produced with Different Stone Tools by Moretti, Erika; Arrighi, Simona; Boschin, Francesco; Crezzini, Jacopo; Aureli, Daniele; Ronchitelli, Annamaria (2015) - 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; doi; engravings; figure; flakes; marks; paglicci; research; tool

• Archaeobotanical Approaches in the Study of Food Production in Remote Oceania by Levin, Maureece Jacqueline (2017) - 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. Received January 27, 2017 OPEN ACCESS Accepted July 11, 2017 DOI 10.14237/ebl.8.1.2017.882 Keywords Archaeobotany, Archaeology, Pacific Islands, Agriculture, Food production, Remote Oceania Copyright © 2017 by the author(s); licensee Society of Ethnobiology. Keywords: islands; journal; new; oceania; pacific; region; remote

• Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato. By Rebecca Earle. 2020. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 306 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2021) - 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: books; earle; history; new; potato; potatoes

• An Editor’s Opinion on the Ethics of Open Access by Fowler, Cynthia Twyford (2014) - Open access journals that include author-pay, reader-pay, membership-pay, or database subscriber-pay mechanisms in their models can still—although not completely free—be ethical. Secondarily, I believe that open access is an honorable endeavor ecologically since online publication requires no conventional resources (paper, ink, fuel) to print and distribute content. Keywords: access; ebl; ethnobiology; journal; open; publishing

• Kumeyaay Ethnobotany: Shared Heritage of the Californias. By Michael Wilken-Robertson. 2018. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego. 281 pp. by Narchi, Nemer E. (2019) - These chapters range from describing Baja California prehistory to offering ways in which to put living knowledge to work. This process gradually forced Kumeyaay communities in Mexico and the United States to adopt different political, cultural, and economic structures. Keywords: baja; california; kumeyaay; section

• The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal by Anderson, E. N. (2013) - 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

• Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art by Anderson, E. N. (2010) - 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. Teasing out the full complexity of the sources of baskets is difficult, but it appears that not only the rice- growing areas of West Africa, but all of the West African slave source areas from the Gambia to Angola, were involved in basket history and in the formation of the Gullah (or Geechee) ethnic group on the Sea Islands. Keywords: art; ethnobiology; rice

• 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. by Levin, Maureece J. (2018) - 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; chapters; kirch; mangaia

• Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fermentation Effects on Pollen: Archaeological Implications by Dozier, Crystal A. (2016) - 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

• An Introduction to a Tandem Review on Gayle Fritz’s Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland by Walshaw, Sarah (2024) - As Reviews Editor at Ethnobiology Letters, I am pleased to update our readership about ways to engage and to introduce a newly available format: tandem reviews. Ethnobiology Letters is pleased to bring readers our first tandem review in volume 15 of Gayle Fritz’s Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland. Keywords: review; tandem

• Material Choices: Refashioning Bast and Leaf Fibers in Asia and the Pacific by Anderson, E. N. (2010) - 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

• Paleozoogeography of the Wine Mouse (Akodon oenos) & Late Holocene Paleoenvironments in South-Central Mendoza, Argentina by Fernández, Fernando Julián (2011) - In terms of biometry, the specimen from Agua de La Mula falls within the range of A. oenos described by Braun et al. (2000) (Table 1). The presence of pellets preserved in stratigraphy and light digestive corrosion on some teeth and postcraneal bones recovered from Agua de La Mula site, indicate that the main accumulator agent was probably an owl (Fernández et al. 2008). Keywords: agua; akodon; argentina; mendoza; mni%; mula; oenos

• Aspects of Honeybee Natural History According to the Solega by Si, Aung (2013) - Solega men eagerly await the annual migration of bees in Febru- ary/March, and plan harvesting excursions in small groups of neighbors or relatives to ‘bee trees’ growing near their own village. When (the queen) wants to grow its family, it makes other bees from the comb. Keywords: appdata; aristotle; asb0123; bees; file:///c:/users; hive; honeybee; new; queen; solega; temp; tree

• Skookum Root: Ethnobotany of Hellebore (Veratrum viride) in Northwest British Columbia by Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda (2018) - Ethnobiology Letters 9(2):197–205 199 Research Communications P e o p le N am e 1 P ra cti se s/ U se s sg an t s’ ik s an d m u lg w as xw a re v ar i- an t sp e lli n gs u se d in t ex t as t h ey a re fr o m a G ti xs an -s p ec ifi c o rt h o gr ap h y. R o o t is m as h ed , w et , a n d a p p lie d f o r b lo o d p o is o n , b o ils , u lc er s, le av es u se d in s w ea t b at h f o r “l am e p la ce s” Sm it h 1 9 2 6 G ra te d r o o t ad d ed t o la u n d ry w at er t o p u ri fy a n d c le an se c lo th in g. G o tt es fe ld a n d A n d er so n 1 9 8 8 R o o t gr o u n d a n d u se d a s sn u ff f o r si n u s Jo h n so n 1 9 9 7 R o o t/ R h iz o m e st ee p e d in b at h f o r sk in c o n d iti o n s W ils o n e t al . Keywords: harvest; hellebore; n d; o r

• Vanilla Landscapes: Meaning, Memory, and the Cultivation of Place in Madagascar. By Sarah R. Osterhoudt. 2017. NYBG Press, Bronx, NY. 180 pp. by Gagnon, Terese (2018) - 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

• Plurality in Ethnobiology: A Look Towards 2017 by Welch, James R.; Marston, John M.; Olson, Elizabeth A. (2016) - 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. Ethnobiology Letters 7(1):106 106 Editorial intolerance and populist extremism in Europe and North America during the worst global migrant crisis since World War II. Keywords: diversity; ethnobiology

• A Response to Welch's Review of "Urihi A: A Terra‐Floresta Yanomami" by van der Voort, Hein (2010) - William Milliken and Bruce Albert with Gale Goodwin Gomez, illustrations by Jane Rutherford. 1999. It ac- knowledges the excellent anthropological and biological work among the Yanomami by its two main authors. Keywords: yanomami

• Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland. By Gayle J. Fritz. 2019. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 228 pp. by Forste, Kathleen M. (2024) - Rather than passively stating that palynological and archaeological evidence of agricultural systems indicate that uplands were likely to wooded and in need of clearing for maize [Zea mays] agriculture, Fritz makes a powerful and intentional shift in subjects. In Chapter 10, Fritz covers topics central to studies of agricultural systems: population estimates, what/when/where to grow, what to do with surplus, and the social and ideological systems that created “community-level cooperation and spiritual support” needed for successful agricultural production (p. 150). Keywords: cahokia; fritz; students

• The Advent of PhyloCode: The Continuing Evolution of Biological Nomenclature. By Michel Laurin. 2024. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton. 209 pp. by Ellen, Roy (2025) - What makes this book important for ethnobiolo- gists is Laurin’s explicit and sympathetic engagement with the literature on folk classification, and its use to interrogate scientific taxonomy. Laurin suggests that there might be more ‘stability’ in the use of implicit ethnobiological ranks and vernacular names for macro-organisms than in scientific taxonomy. Keywords: ellen; nomenclature; taxa; taxonomy

• Searching for Symbolic Value of Cattle: Tropical Livestock Units, Market Price, and Cultural Value of Maasai Livestock by Quinlan, Robert J.; Rumas, Isaya; Naiskye, Godfrey; Quinlan, Marsha; Yoder, Jonathan (2016) - (4) How might we translate livestock values across these perspec- tives? Depending on context, however, livestock value might not be entirely metabolic or nutritional. Keywords: cattle; exchange; livestock; maasai; market; men; milk; moran; price; quinlan; smallstock; value

• Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology by Dombrosky, Jonathan (2014) - DOI: 10.14237/ebl.5.2014.278. 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

• Cotton and Wool: Textile Economy in the Serakhs Oasis during the Late Sasanian Period, the Case of Spindle Whorls from Gurukly Depe (Turkmenistan) by Kossowska-Janik, Dominika Maja (2016) - Dimensions and weight of spindle whorls determine thickness of yarn and these parameters differ according to the fiber chosen for spinning. In this paper, I examine spindle whorls found at Gurukly Depe, Turkmenistan, during the Late Sasanian Period (sixth to seventh centuries AD), to try to establish whether wool or cotton was spun there. Keywords: cotton; depe; diameter; fiber; gurukly; research; spindle; spinning; weight; whorls

• 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. by Carvajal Contreras, Diana Rocío (2018) - 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

• What is Your “Phytolith Load”? An Examination of the Potential for Cross-Contamination During Phytolith Extraction by Buffington, Abigail Francesca; Weiland, Andrew; Arnold, Julia; Arbogast, Drew (2018) - The average number of phytoliths per contamination slide was 0.238 ± 0.082 per slide and 0.1 for the general contamination slides, whereas the average number of phytoliths for the mounted Manayzah samples was 102.36 ± 12.46. In this experiment, both variables Category Variable Contaminated Slides (n) Phytoliths observed (n) Mean number of phytoliths per slide Location Balance 5 7 0.33 Fume Hood 3 3 0.14 Distance 5 cm 2 3 0.50 15 cm 1 1 0.08 25 cm 2 2 0.08 35 cm 3 4 0.25 Keywords: contamination; distance; et al; laboratory; mounting; number; phytoliths; research; results; round; samples; slide; study

• Kajika Frogs (Buergeria buergeri) as Premium Pets During the Japanese Modern Monarchical Period by Hoshina, Hideto (2020) - (Figure 1), which lives in mountain streams, an uncommon habitat for Japanese frogs. Frog prices have been converted to present‐day United States dollars (US$). Keywords: asahi; buergeri; frogs; japanese; period; shimbun; tokyo; yomiuri

• 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. by Coimbra, Carlos E. A. (2016) - 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

• Una Hiwea, O Livro Vivo. Edited by Agostinho Manduca M. Ĩka Muru. 2012. Literaterras and Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte. 284 pp. – and – Una Shubu Hiwea: Livro Escola Viva do Povo Huni Kuĩ do Rio Jordão. 2017. by Serrano de Almeida Penedo, Thiago (2022) - Its main organiser was shaman Manoel Vandique Kaxinawa Dua Busa, who serves as the current In 2016, Coimbra published in this journal a very comprehensive review of the 2014 book Una Isĩ Kayawa: Livro de Cura do Povo Huni Kuĩ highlighting the importance of this work that describes the use of 109 medicinal plants by the Huni Kuĩ and traditional stories and texts about these medicinal plants and their cure process. All the books have Huni Kuĩ authorship and are a result of the desire of the Huni Kuĩ to record their culture and medicinal plant knowledge for younger generations. Keywords: huni; kuĩ

• Whale Snow: Iñupiat, Climate Change, and Multispecies Resilience in Arctic Alaska. By Chie Sakakibara. 2020. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. 304 pp. by Koskey, Michael (2022) - Responsible for and representing transformations in the world, whales are described in Whale Snow in terms of the role they play in all aspects of Iñupiaq ways of life, including its social importance and impacts to the community. This enables the reader to better understand the spiritual role and reality that the whale plays in Iñupiaq culture, and its importance in a larger socioecological context. Keywords: iñupiaq; sakakibara; whale

• Essay on the Geography of Plants by Smith, Ian C. (2013) - 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. This passage transitions nicely to a reading of the translation of Humboldt’s essay and his Tableau Physique. Keywords: essay; humboldt; jackson

• Ethnobiological Memoirs and Memory by Stepp, John Richard (2016) - We seem to be most at home when publishing memoirs in the long form and from the long view. What follows here is memoir in the broadest sense, both reflection and a return to the past in the form of unpublished data. Keywords: ethnobiology; memoir; memory

• The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs. Joshua L. Reid. 2015. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 400 pp. by Mackin, Jill Falcon (2017) - Building on the borderlands scholarship of Adelman and Aron, Anzaldúa, and Truett, Reid clearly delineates the remnant layers in borderlands power structures. He builds a view of the complexity of native borderlands and webs of intertribal power and control that existed before the arrival of non-Natives. Keywords: colonial; makah; power; reid

• Midwives and Mothers: The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation. By Sheila Cosminsky. 2016. University of Texas Press, Austin. 303 pp. by Thiel, Amanda M.; Quinlan, Marsha B. (2019) - The book then outlines the levels at which medicalization affects Guatemalan midwifery practice. Midwives and Mothers journeys over time to describe changes in midwifery practice on a mixed Maya-Ladino plantation (population 690 in 1970, 313 in 2010) on Guatemala’s Pacific coast. Keywords: cosminsky; medicalization; midwifery; midwives

• Linguistic Influence on Russian and American Ethnobiological Categorization by Nolan, Justin M.; Zaresheva, Aina; Robbins, Michael C. (2019) - In particular, American English speakers appear to employ phenotypic (morphological/phylogenetic) criteria more frequently when categorizing both animate and inanimate folk biological taxa than do Russians >ŝŶŐƵŝƐƟĐ�/ŶŇƵĞŶĐĞ�ŽŶ�ZƵƐƐŝĂŶ�ĂŶĚ��ŵĞƌŝĐĂŶ��ƚŚŶŽďŝŽůŽŐŝĐĂů� �ĂƚĞŐŽƌŝnjĂƟŽŶ :ƵƐƟŶ�D͘�EŽůĂŶϭ͕��ŝŶĂ��ĂƌĞƐŚĞǀĂϮ͕�ĂŶĚ�DŝĐŚĂĞů��͘�ZŽďďŝŶƐϯ ϭ�ĞƉĂƌƚŵĞŶƚ�ŽĨ��ŶƚŚƌŽƉŽůŽŐLJ͕�hŶŝǀĞƌƐŝƚLJ�ŽĨ��ƌŬĂŶƐĂƐ͕�&ĂLJĞƩĞǀŝůůĞ͕�h^�͘�Ϯ�ĞƉĂƌƚŵĞŶƚ�ŽĨ�ZƵƐƐŝĂŶ�ĂŶĚ�^ůĂǀŽŶŝĐ�^ƚƵĚŝĞƐ͕� hŶŝǀĞƌƐŝƚLJ�ŽĨ�DŝƐƐŽƵƌŝ͕��ŽůƵŵďŝĂ͕�h^�͘�ϯ�ĞƉĂƌƚŵĞŶƚ�ŽĨ��ŶƚŚƌŽƉŽůŽŐLJ͕�hŶŝǀĞƌƐŝƚLJ�ŽĨ�DŝƐƐŽƵƌŝ͕��ŽůƵŵďŝĂ͕�h^�͘ ΎŽnjĂƌŬƐĂŶƚŚƌŽΛŵƐŶ͘ĐŽŵ �ďƐƚƌĂĐƚ� /Ŷ�ƚŚĞ�ZƵƐƐŝĂŶ�ůĂŶŐƵĂŐĞ͕�ŶŽƵŶƐ�ĂƌĞ�ĐůĂƐƐŝĮĞĚ�ďLJ�ŐĞŶĚĞƌ�ĂŶĚ�ĂŶŝŵĂĐLJ͕�ǁŚĞƌĞĂƐ�ŝŶ��ŶŐůŝƐŚ͕�ŶŽƵŶƐ�ĂƌĞ�ŶŽƚ͘�hƐŝŶŐ� ƚƌŝĂĚ-ƐŽƌƚƐ� ŽĨ� ŶĂŵĞƐ� ĨŽƌ� ďŝŽůŽŐŝĐĂů� ĂŶĚ� ŶŽŶ-ďŝŽůŽŐŝĐĂů� ƚĂdžĂ͕� Ă� ĐŽŵƉĂƌŝƐŽŶ� ŽĨ� ƌĞƐƵůƚƐ� ƉƌŽǀŝĚĞĚ� ďLJ� ŶĂƟǀĞ� ƐƉĞĂŬĞƌƐ� ŽĨ� ďŽƚŚ� ůĂŶŐƵĂŐĞƐ�ƌĞǀĞĂůƐ�ƚŚĂƚ�ĐŽŐŶŝƟǀĞ�ĐĂƚĞŐŽƌŝnjĂƟŽŶƐ�ŽĨ�ĂŶŝŵĂƚĞ�ĂŶĚ�ŝŶĂŶŝŵĂƚĞ�ŶŽŵĞŶĐůĂƚƵƌĂů�ĨŽƌŵƐ�ĚŝīĞƌ�ƐŝŐŶŝĮĐĂŶƚůLJ�ďĞƚǁĞĞŶ� ƐƉĞĂŬĞƌƐ�ŽĨ�ZƵƐƐŝĂŶ�ĂŶĚ��ŵĞƌŝĐĂŶ��ŶŐůŝƐŚ͘�^ƉĞĂŬĞƌƐ�ŽĨ��ŵĞƌŝĐĂŶ��ŶŐůŝƐŚ�ĂƉƉĞĂƌ�ƚŽ�ĐĂƚĞŐŽƌŝnjĞ�ŶĂŵĞƐ�ĨŽƌ�ůŝǀŝŶŐ�ŶŽƵŶƐ�ŵŽƌĞ� ďLJ�ƉŚĞŶŽƚLJƉĞ�ƚŚĂŶ�ĚŽ�ZƵƐƐŝĂŶƐ͕�ǁŚŽ�ŝŶ�ƚƵƌŶ�ĂƉƉĞĂƌ�ƚŽ�ĐůĂƐƐŝĨLJ�ŶŽƵŶƐ�ŵŽƌĞ�ĨƌĞƋƵĞŶƚůLJ�ŽŶ�ƚŚĞ�ďĂƐŝƐ�ŽĨ�ůŝŶŐƵŝƐƟĐ�ĨĞĂƚƵƌĞƐ�ƐƵĐŚ� ĂƐ�ŐĞŶĚĞƌ͘�dŚĞƐĞ�ƌĞƐƵůƚƐ�ĂƌĞ�ďĞůŝĞǀĞĚ�ƚŽ�ďĞ�ƉĞƌƟŶĞŶƚ�ƚŽ�ƚŚĞ�ĞůŝĐŝƚĂƟŽŶ�ĂŶĚ�ĐŽŶƐƚƌƵĐƟŽŶ�ŽĨ�ĨŽůŬ�ĞƚŚŶŽďŝŽůŽŐLJ�ƚĂdžŽŶŽŵŝĞƐ �͘ ZĞĐĞŝǀĞĚ�:ĂŶƵĂƌLJ�ϭϰ͕�ϮϬϭϵ KW�E��������^^ �ĐĐĞƉƚĞĚ�DĂƌĐŚ�ϯϭ͕�ϮϬϭϵ �K/�ϭϬ͘ϭϰϮϯϳͬĞďů͘ϭϬ͘ϭ͘ϮϬϭϵ͘ϭϰϵϳ WƵďůŝƐŚĞĚ�DĂLJ�ϯϬ͕�ϮϬϭϵ <ĞLJǁŽƌĚƐ� $)0$./$�� /#)*�$*'*4Ѷ� $)0$./$��- '�/$1$/4Ѷ��*'&�/�3*)*($ .Ѷ��*)$/$*)��)���'�..$!$��/$*)Ѷ��-$���.*-/.� �ŽƉLJƌŝŐŚƚ�Ξ�ϮϬϭϵ�ďLJ�ƚŚĞ�ĂƵƚŚŽƌ;ƐͿ� ůŝĐĞŶƐĞĞ�^ŽĐŝĞƚLJ�ŽĨ��ƚŚŶŽďŝŽůŽŐLJ͘�dŚŝƐ� ŝƐ�ĂŶ�ŽƉĞŶ-ĂĐĐĞƐƐ�ĂƌƚŝĐůĞ�ĚŝƐƚƌŝďƵƚĞĚ�ƵŶĚĞƌ�ƚŚĞ�ƚĞƌŵƐ�ŽĨ� ƚŚĞ��ƌĞĂƚŝǀĞ��ŽŵŵŽŶƐ� �ƚƚƌŝďƵƚŝŽŶ-EŽŶ�ŽŵŵĞƌĐŝĂů�ϰ͘Ϭ�/ŶƚĞƌŶĂƚŝŽŶĂů�WƵďůŝĐ�>ŝĐĞŶƐĞ�;ŚƚƚƉƐ͗ͬͬĐƌĞĂƚŝǀĞĐŽŵŵŽŶƐ͘ŽƌŐͬůŝĐĞŶƐĞƐͬďLJ-ŶĐͬϰ͘ϬͿ �͕ǁŚŝĐŚ�ƉĞƌŵŝƚƐ�ŶŽŶ-ĐŽŵŵĞƌĐŝĂů�ƵƐĞ �͕ĚŝƐƚƌŝďƵƚŝŽŶ �͕ ĂŶĚ�ƌĞƉƌŽĚƵĐƚŝŽŶ�ŝŶ�ĂŶLJ�ŵĞĚŝƵŵ �͕ƉƌŽǀŝĚĞĚ�ƚŚĞ�ŽƌŝŐŝŶĂů�ĂƵƚŚŽƌ�ĂŶĚ�ƐŽƵƌĐĞ�ĂƌĞ�ĐƌĞĚŝƚĞĚ �͘ EŽůĂŶ�Ğƚ�Ăů͘�ϮϬϭϵ͘��ƚŚŶŽďŝŽůŽŐLJ�>ĞƩĞƌƐ�ϭϬ;ϭͿ͗ϭϴ-ϮϮ ϭϵ ZĞƐĞĂƌĐŚ��ŽŵŵƵŶŝĐĂƟŽŶƐ in Russian see Kravchenko (2002), and for more on the role of animacy in Russian, see Klenin (1983). For example, Table 3 shows that 61% of the time Russians pair bear and dog when flower is the third item, while Americans paired bear-dog 89% of the time, indicating that Americans use a phenotype criterion significantly more (p-value<0.001); (2) Russians make significantly more similarity pairings by gender than 'ĞŶĚĞƌ �ŶŝŵĂƚĞ /ŶĂŶŝŵĂƚĞ DĂůĞ &ĂƚŚĞƌ ,ŽƵƐĞ �ĞĂƌ &ůŽǁĞƌ &ĞŵĂůĞ DŽƚŚĞƌ tĂƚĞƌ �ŽŐ 'ƌĂƐƐ dĂďůĞ�ϭ�DĂƚƌŝdž�ŽĨ�ZƵƐƐŝĂŶ�ŐĞŶĚĞƌ�ĂŶĚ�ƐƵďŐĞŶĚĞƌ�ĐůĂƐƐŝͲ ĮĐĂƟŽŶƐ͘ �ĂƚĞŐŽƌLJ Z� �� Z/� �/� Zd �d WŚĞŶŽƚLJƉĞ Ϭ͘ϲϬ Ϭ͘ϴϮ Ϭ͘ϲϵ Ϭ͘ϵϭ Ϭ͘ϲϰ Ϭ͘ϴϳ 'ĞŶĚĞƌ Ϭ͘ϲϬ Ϭ͘Ϭϴ Ϭ͘ϭϳ Ϭ͘Ϭϰ Ϭ͘ϭϵ Ϭ͘Ϭϲ KƚŚĞƌ Ϭ͘ϮϬ Ϭ͘Ϭϱ Ϭ͘ϭϰ Ϭ͘ϭϬ Ϭ͘ϭϳ Ϭ͘Ϭϳ Z��сZƵƐƐŝĂŶ��ŶŝŵĂƚĞ͕���с�ŵĞƌŝĐĂŶ��ŶŝŵĂƚĞ͕�Z/�сZƵƐƐŝĂŶ�/ŶĂŶŝŵĂƚĞ͕��/�с�ŵĞƌŝĐĂŶ�/ŶĂŶŝŵĂƚĞ͕�Zdс�ZƵƐƐŝĂŶ�dŽƚĂů͕� �dс�ŵĞƌŝĐĂŶ�dŽƚĂů͘ Ύ�ůů�ĐĂƚĞŐŽƌŝĐĂů�ĚŝīĞƌĞŶĐĞƐ�ďĞƚǁĞĞŶ�ZƵƐƐŝĂŶ�ĂŶĚ��ŵĞƌŝĐĂŶ�ƉƌŽƉŽƌƟŽŶƐ�ĂƌĞ�ƐƚĂƟƐƟĐĂůůLJ�ƐŝŐŶŝĮĐĂŶƚ�Ɖ-ǀĂůƵĞфϬ͘ϬϬϭ͕�ĞdžĐĞƉƚ� ďĞƚǁĞĞŶ�ŽƚŚĞƌ�Z/��ĂŶĚ��/��;Ɖ-ǀĂůƵĞхϬ͘ϬϱͿ͘ dĂďůĞ�Ϯ�KǀĞƌĂůů�ƉƌŽƉŽƌƟŽŶĂů�ĐĂƚĞŐŽƌLJ�ĐŽŵƉĂƌŝƐŽŶƐ͘ EŽůĂŶ�Ğƚ�Ăů͘�ϮϬϭϵ͘��ƚŚŶŽďŝŽůŽŐLJ�>ĞƩĞƌƐ�ϭϬ;ϭͿ͗ϭϴ-ϮϮ ϮϬ ZĞƐĞĂƌĐŚ��ŽŵŵƵŶŝĐĂƟŽŶƐ do the Americans on these same triads. Keywords: ežůăŷ �; russian; zğɛğăƌđś �; zƶɛɛŝăŷ �; ăŷě �; � >ğʃğƌɛ; � ăů͘; � ăƌğ; � ŵğƌŝđăŷ; � žĩ; � žŵŵƶŷŝđăɵžŷɛ; � ƚśğ; � ƚśŷžďŝžůžőlj; � ϯϭϭϵ͘; � �

• Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Ethnobotany for Wind River Reservation Rangelands by Friday, Colleen; Scasta, John Derek (2020) - Ethnobiology Letters 11(1):14–24 18 Data, Methods & Taxonomies Ta b le 1 S h o sh o n e n am e s an d u se s o f p la n ts i n h ig h -e le va ti o n b as in s o n t h e W in d R iv er I n d ia n R es er va ti o n i n W yo m in g, U n it ed S ta te s. G ro u p ed b y p la n t fu n cti o n al g ro u p a n d t h en a lp h ab eti ca lly b y sc ie n ti fi c n am e. U se s in cl u d e M ed ic in al ( M ), F o o d ( F) , A rt s & C ra ft s (A & C ), C as u a l U se ( C U ), a n d C er e m o n ia l ( C ). Keywords: arapaho; kn o; n d; n kn; o n; o o; o w; shoshone; u m; u n; w n

• The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds. By Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. 2015. HAU Press, Chicago. 366 pp. by Anderson, Eugene N. (2016) - Columbia University Press, New York, NY. 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. Keywords: castro; view; viveiros

• Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Yamin‐Pasternak, Sveta (2010) - 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: ethnobiology; letcher; mushroom

• Biocultural Design: Harvesting Manomin with Wabaseemoong Independent Nations by Kuzivanova, Valeria; Davidson-Hunt, Iain J. (2017) - G u id in g co o rd in at e s Ex p la n ati o n in t h e c o n te xt o f th is p ro je ct R e fe re n ce s D es ig n b ri ef a t th e st ar t o f th e p ro je ct A d e si gn b ri ef — a t w o -p ag e d o cu m en t p ro vi d ed b y a co m m u n it y re p re se n ta ti ve in N o ve m b er 2 0 1 3 — e st ab lis h ed t h e co n te xt o f th e s tu d y, p re lim in ar y re se ar ch o b je cti ve s, r es to ra ti o n o p - ti o n s, a n d p o te n ti al f u tu re u se s o f m a n o m in . T h is d e si gn b ri e f fo llo w ed s ix m o n th s o f d is cu ss io n s b et w e en W ab as ee m o o n g Keywords: design; n d; o n

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