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pt. 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 -- pt. 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? -- pt. 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. |
