Pub Date : 2022-01-29DOI: 10.14237/ebl.13.1.2022.1753
Aurea Palloma Bezerra Barbosa Veras, Cauê Guion de Almeida, Lorena Lima de Moraes, Alexandre M. Fernandes
This paper investigates relationships between birds and the inhabitants of Afro-descendant communities in the Caatinga of northeastern Brazil, paying particular attention to conservation. Near the Refúgio de Vida Silvestre da Serra do Giz wildlife reserve, we interviewed 55 residents using semi-structured forms combined with free interviews and informal conversations. Residents reported 121 species in 43 families and 21 orders. They recounted what they knew about nesting, reproductive and social behaviors, diet, and bird conservation. The lack of reporting on several species of birds known from the Serra do Giz was probably because those birds are absent due to hunting and habitat destruction. This study demonstrates the importance of conducting ethnobiological studies for bird conservation and to record local traditional knowledge.
本文调查了鸟类与巴西东北部卡廷加非洲裔社区居民之间的关系，并特别注意保护。在Refúgio de Vida Silvestre da Serra do Giz野生动物保护区附近，我们使用半结构化的形式，结合自由采访和非正式对话，采访了55名居民。居民报告了21目43科121种。他们讲述了他们对筑巢、繁殖和社交行为、饮食和鸟类保护的了解。缺乏对Serra do Giz已知的几种鸟类的报告，可能是因为这些鸟类由于狩猎和栖息地破坏而缺席。这项研究表明了进行民族生物学研究对鸟类保护和记录当地传统知识的重要性。
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Pub Date : 2021-12-30DOI: 10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1774
E. Anderson
{"title":"The Biodemography of Subsistence Farming: Population, Food and Family. By James W. Wood. 2020. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 502 pp.","authors":"E. Anderson","doi":"10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1774","url":null,"abstract":" \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":43787,"journal":{"name":"Ethnobiology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44465552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-18DOI: 10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1706
Jose Ramon Becerra Vera
Multispecies approaches can increase our knowledge around the social and ecological dimensions of coffee landscapes. Ethnobiologists combine the social and natural sciences to study the relationships between humans, the environment, and biota. Multispecies approaches can build from these strategies to further explore the social and biological elements that humans together with more-than-humans contribute to ecological landscapes. Using co-constitutions as a key concept, I highlight multispecies studies into agrarian worlds, review ethnobiological studies around coffee, and suggest potential research areas.
{"title":"Possibilities for Multispecies Approaches in Coffee Landscapes","authors":"Jose Ramon Becerra Vera","doi":"10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1706","url":null,"abstract":"Multispecies approaches can increase our knowledge around the social and ecological dimensions of coffee landscapes. Ethnobiologists combine the social and natural sciences to study the relationships between humans, the environment, and biota. Multispecies approaches can build from these strategies to further explore the social and biological elements that humans together with more-than-humans contribute to ecological landscapes. Using co-constitutions as a key concept, I highlight multispecies studies into agrarian worlds, review ethnobiological studies around coffee, and suggest potential research areas.","PeriodicalId":43787,"journal":{"name":"Ethnobiology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48988629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-09-14DOI: 10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1743
J. Araujo, H. Keller, N. Hilgert
The study of plant-insect interactions and how cultural groups perceive and manage them constitutes one of the interests of ethnoentomology. This work describes the association between host plants and longhorn beetles (Order: Coleoptera; Family: Cerambycidae), an important food among the Guaraní peoples of the province of Misiones, Argentina. Different management methods of host tree species are analyzed in order to promote the rearing of larvae for edible use. We also discuss a story about the mythical origin of cerambicids relayed by the Ava Chiripa Guaraní community. We reflect on the importance of the local worldview in the maintenance of ancestral practices, such as the cultural tasks involved in slash-and-burn agriculture and the intimate knowledge of biological relationships between the cerambycids and their woody host plants.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1763
U. Albuquerque, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, I. Vandebroek, R. Bussmann, N. Paniagua-Zambrana, A. Ladio, R. Voeks, Felipe P. L. Melo, M. Jacob, Thiago Gonçalves‐Souza, A. Lopes, G. Soldati
{"title":"A Reply to Pierotti’s (2018) Review of “Evolutionary Ethnobiology”: Decolonizing Latin American Science","authors":"U. Albuquerque, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, I. Vandebroek, R. Bussmann, N. Paniagua-Zambrana, A. Ladio, R. Voeks, Felipe P. L. Melo, M. Jacob, Thiago Gonçalves‐Souza, A. Lopes, G. Soldati","doi":"10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1763","url":null,"abstract":" ","PeriodicalId":43787,"journal":{"name":"Ethnobiology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43913971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1780
R. Pierotti
{"title":"The Semantics of Color: Reply to Response to Review","authors":"R. Pierotti","doi":"10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1780","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43787,"journal":{"name":"Ethnobiology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44761054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1779
F. Wyndham, J. Baker, K. Bannister, M. Bruno, A. Flachs, C. Fowler, Andrew Gillreath-Brown, E. Olson, Kali Wade, Sarah C. Walshaw
racialized categories. This historical context of the term is particular to resistance movements in North America, however. In other contexts, and particularly in Latin America, the term ‘color’ and indeed any racializing may be read as offensive, xenophobic, or otherwise Other-ing. These differences in terminology reflect the different histories of settler colonialism and solidarity against oppression that communities have lived through in these different places. Importantly for us as editors and thus gatekeepers in academic publishing, the bigger context is a classic anthropological one in which the parochialisms and genre of the editors go unquestioned, even though terms have variable meaning depending on their context and history. As editors, we are responsible for making our journal a platform for rigorous discussions of the intersections of cultural and biological life that does not discriminate against the very people whom we have invited to voice their thoughts.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1765
G. Forth
{"title":"A Reply to Whitney's Review of Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird","authors":"G. Forth","doi":"10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1765","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43787,"journal":{"name":"Ethnobiology Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46647167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-19DOI: 10.14237/EBL.12.1.2021.1718
Kathleen M. Forste
The archaeological site of Caesarea Maritima in modern-day Israel was an important coastal town in the Early Islamic period (c. 636–1100 CE). In this article, I analyze 15 samples of carbonized wood and non-wood macrobotanical remains recovered from two residential neighborhoods to investigate the production and consumption of agricultural plant products. The identified crop and wood taxa are typical for the Mediterranean coast. Wild seeds point to crop cultivation in the vicinity of the site. Plant remains were collected from discrete contexts and are interpreted with associated features and artifacts, revealing cereal processing debris across a series of rooms in a former warehouse. Such a socioeconomic shift in this building, from a storage area to a crop processing space, is detectable by combining this intrasite analysis with the diachronic research previously conducted at the site. Received July 6, 2020 OPEN ACCESS Accepted February 18, 2021 DOI 10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1718 Published March 19, 2021
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Pub Date : 2021-03-15DOI: 10.14237/EBL.12.1.2021.1678
Ernani Machado de Freitas Lins Neto, Silvana Vieira dos Santos, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior
The free list is a key data collection tool in ethnobotanical studies. For this reason, it is currently receiving a great deal of attention regarding possible methodological limitations. 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. People were asked the same trigger question (which medicinal plants do you know?), during the rainy and dry seasons. Comparing the plant lists described during both periods (68 plants), respondent salience in the rainy period was significantly higher than the dry period. However, similarities can be observed between the two lists, especially with respect to their composition and the continued importance of hortelã (Mentha sp.) and alecrim (Lippia sp.), which maintained prominent positions during the rainy and dry seasons. The general analysis of the free lists revealed that there were no significant differences due to temporality, especially in relation to plants with a higher salience value. Since these plants are found mainly in homegardens, it is possible to deduce that the daily conduct of activities in these environments is stimulating and keeping plants in homegardens active in people’s memory. However, much still needs to be investigated about the free list technique in ethnobotanical data collection, especially with regard to the influence of seasonality on stimulating seasonal diseases. Received February 11, 2020 OPEN ACCESS Accepted December 24, 2020 DOI 10.14237/ebl.12.1.2021.1678 Published March 15, 2021
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