Ethnobiology and the Science of Humankind

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4589-3
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 349 g

Part of The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Special Issue Book Series, this landmark volume assesses the contribution of recent work in ethnobiology to anthropological thought.
- Considers the ways in which the subject matter and methodologies of ethnobiological research address core anthropological questions.
- Contributors explore a wide range of themes, such as our understanding of those processes which transform the environment, and the evolution of the cultural mind.
- Addresses anthropological issues of general interest, from biology to reflexivity.

- Helps to develop the productive relationship between ethnobiology and anthropology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ellen, Roy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vi

1. Introduction 1
Roy Ellen

2. Speculations on the First Congress of Ethnozoological Nomenclature 29
Brent Berlin

3. Ethnobiology and the Evolution of the Human Mind 55
Steven Mithen

4. The Interplay of Ethnographic and Archaeological Knowledge in the Study of Past Human Subsistence 77
David Harris

5. Amazonian historical ecologies 97
Laura Rival

6. The Interface Between Medical Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology 117
Anna Waldstein and Cameron Adams

7. Ethnobiology and Applied Anthropology: rapprochement of the academic with the pratical 147
Paul Sillitoe

8. Meeting of Minds: How do we Share our Appreciation of Traditional environmental knowledge? 177
Eugene Hunn

Index 197

Über Autor(innen)

Roy Ellen is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. His research, mainly focussed on island southeast Asia, has spanned issues in ethnobiological classification, the ecology of swidden cultivation, deforestation and inter-island trade. His previous publications include On the Edge of the Banda Zone (2003), The Cultural Relations of Classification (1993) and Environment, Subsistence and System (1982).