ANTH 591E Ethnoecology

(Traditional Ecological Knowledge)
Spring 2007

Course Readings (pdf on Blackboard under Assignments)

 

Atran, Scott, Douglas Medin and Norbert Ross

     2004

Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of Two Biologies. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 10(2):395-420.


Atran, Scott, Douglas Medin, Norbert Ross, Elizabeth Lynch, John Coley, Edilberto Ucan Ek, Valentina Vapnarsky

     1996

Folkecology and Commons Management in the Maya Lowlands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 96:7598-7603.


Basso, Keith H.

     1996

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.


Berkes, R.

     1999

Challenges to Indigenous Knowledge. In Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management, by Fikret Berkes, pp. 145-161. Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia, PA.


Berkes, R., J. Colding, and C. Folke

     2000

Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management.Ecological Applications 10:1251- 1262.


Berkes, Fikret, Mina Kislalioglu, Carl Folke, and Madhav Gadgil

     1998

Exploring the Basic Ecological Unit: Ecosystem-like Concepts in Traditional Societies. Ecosystems 1(5):409-415.


Boster, James S., and Jeff C. Johnson

     1989

Form or Function: A Comparison of Expert and Novice Judgment of Similarity Among Fish.American Anthropologist 91:866–89.


Brown, Cecil H.

     2000

Folk Classification: An Introduction. In Ethnobotany: A Reader, edited by Paul E. Minnis, pp. 65-68. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

Bye, Robert A., Jr.

     1986

Voucher Specimens in Ethnobiological Studies and Publications.Journal of Ethnobiology 6:1-8.


Davis, A. and J.R. Wagner

     2003

Who Knows? On the Importance of Identifying “Experts” When Researching Local Ecological Knowledge. Human Ecology 31:463-489 .


Dietz, Thomas, Elinor Ostrom, and Paul C. Stern

     2003

The Struggle to Govern the Commons. Science 302:1907-1912.


Gosz, James R.

     1999

Ecology Challenged? Who? Why? Where is This Headed? Ecosystems 2:475-481.


Hays, Terrance E.

     1982

Utilitarian/Adaptationist Explanations of Folk Biological Classification: Some Cautionary Notes. Journal of Ethnobiology 2(1):89-94.


Holling, C. S., Fikret Berkes, and Carl Folke

     1998

Science, Sustainability and Resource Management. In Linking Social and Ecological Systems, edited by F. Berkes, C. Folke, and J. Colding, pp. 342-362. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.


Martin, Gary J.

     1995

Ethnobotany: A Methods Manual. Chapman and Hall, London.


Miller, Marc, J. Aneko, P. Atram, J. Arks, and D. D. Brewer

     2004

Cultural Consensus Analysis and Environmental Anthropology: Yellowfin Tuna Fishery Management in Hawaii. Cross-Cultural Research 38:289-314.


Ohmagari, Kayo and Fikret Berkes

     1997

Transmission of Indigenous Knowledge and Bush Skills Among the Western James Bay Creek Women of Subarctic Canada. Human Ecology 25:197-222.


Platt, Herbert S.

     1964

Strong Inference. Science 146(3642):374-353.


Posey, Darrell A.

     1998

Diachronic Ecotones and Anthropogenic Landscapes in Amazonia: Contesting the Consciousness of Conservation. In Advances in Historical Ecology, edited by William Balee, pp. 104-118. Columbia University Press, New York.


Posey, Darrell A., edited by Kristina Plenderleith

     2002

Kayapo Ethnoecology and Culture. Routledge, London.


Pretty, Jules

     2003

Social Capital and the Collective Management of Resources. Science302:1912-1914.


Quinlan, Marsha

     2005

Considerations for Collecting Freelists in the Field: Examples from Ethnobotany. Field Methods 17:219-234.


Ramirez, Panchito

     2002

Words of a Cacique: Panchito Ramirez. Interpretation by Jose Barreiro.National Museum of the American Indian 3(3):34.


Salick, Jan, et al.

     2003

Intellectual Imperatives in Ethnobiology. NSF Biotechnology Workshop Report. http://www.econbot.org/pdf/NSF_brochure.pdf


Salmon, Enrique

     2000

Kincentric Ecology: Indigenous Perceptions of the Human-Nature Relationship.Ecological Applications 10(5):1327-1332.


Sheil, Douglas and Anna Lawrence

     2004

Tropical Biologists, Local People, and Conservation: New Opportunities for Collaboration. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution 19:634-638.


Wear, David N.

     1999

Challenges to Interdisciplinary Discourse. Ecosystems 2:299-301.