Ethnobiology for the Future: Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity (Southwest Center Series)

Synopsis

The Book Centers On A Call To Define/redefine The Field Of Ethnobiology And The Need For Doing So. It Points A Major Way Forward For Ethnobiology: Toward Engagement With People And Communities That Are Saving Ecosystems And Lifestyles Through Reviving Traditional Agricultural Items And Techniques, And Integrating Them Into The Contemporary World -- Part 1. Redefining Ethnobiology : Toward A General Theory Of The Interactions Of Biodiversity And Cultural Diversity. Ethnobiology Emerging From A Time Of Crisis -- Defining New Disciplinary Trajectories : Mixing Political Ecology With Ethnobiology -- Ethnoscience, The Oldest Science: A Needed Complement To Academic Science And Citizen Science To Stem The Losses Of Biodiversity, Indigenous Languages, And Livelihoods -- Autobiology?: The Traditional Ecological, Agricultural, And Culinary Knowledge Of Us! -- Searching For The Ancestral Diet : Did Mitochondrial Eve And Java Man Feast On The Same Foods? -- Microbial Ethnobiology And The Loss Of Distinctive Food Cultures -- Ethnophenology And Climate Change -- Part 2. Exemplifying How Ethnobiology Serves As A Pivotal Interdiscipline In Biocultural Conservation. Safeguarding Species, Languages, And Cultures In A Time Of Diversity Loss : From The Colorado Plateau To Global Hotspots -- Agrobiodiversity In An Oasis Archipelago -- Passing On A Sense Of Place And Traditional Ecological Knowledge Between Generations -- Biocultural And Ecogastronomic Restoration : The Renewing America's Food Traditions Alliance -- Conservation You Can Taste : Heirloom Seed And Heritage Breed Recovery In North America -- Multiple Lines Of Evidence For The Origin Of Domesticated Chile Pepper, Capsicum Annuum, In Mexico -- Traditional Ecological Knowledge And Endangered Species: Is Ethnobiology For The Birds? -- Part 3. Writing Ethnobiology For Broader Appeal And Impact. Guadalupe Lopez Blanco: Reflections On How A Sea Turtle Hunter Turned His Community Toward Conservation -- Paleozoologist Paul Martin, The Ghosts Of Evolution, And The Rewilding Of North America -- Parque De La Papa: Vavilov's Dream For Potatoes? -- Why Poetry Needs Ethnobiology: Hawkmoth Songs And Cross-pollinations -- Aromas Emanating From The Driest Of Places -- The Ethnobiology Of Survival In Post-apocalyptic Dystopias. Edited By Gary Paul Nabhan ; Foreword By Paul E. Minnis ; With Drawings By Paul Mirocha. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.