Ethnobiologist’s Bookshelf
Note that the below is in no way intended to be an exhaustive listing, and only represents what ISE members have shared with us.
Please send announcements of your ethnobiology and indigenous knowledge related books and films, and also contributed reviews of current works in ethnobiology or indigenous knowledge to the ISE Newsletter Editor (with subject heading: Ethnobiologist’s Bookshelf).
Proceedings from ISE Congresses
Ethnobiology: Implications and applications, 2 Volumes (1988). Authors Darrell A. Posey, William Leslie Overal, Charles R. Clement, Mark J. Plotkin, Elaine Elisabetsky, Clarice Novaes da Mota, Jose Flavio Pessoa de Barros
Ethnobiology and Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity, Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Ethnobiology (1996). Edited by Christine Kabuye
Ethnobiology and Biocultural Diversity, Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Ethnobiology (2000).Edited by John Richard Stepp, Felice Wyndham and Rebecca Zarger
Ethnobiology – general
Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations. Edited by Andrea Pieroni and Ina Vandebroek (keywords: ethnobiology general, ethnopharmacology)
A Zapotec Natural History—Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbëë. By Eugene S. Hunn (keywords: ethnobiology general, classification, Mexico)
[NEW] Yumbulyumbulmantha ki-Awarawu. All Kinds of Things from Country. Yanyuwa Ethnobiological Classification. Authors of this work include John Bradley, Miles Holmes, Dinah Norman Marrngawi, Annie Isaac Karrakayn, Jemima Miller Wuwarlu and Ida Ninganga (keywords: ethnobiology, Australia)
Ethnoecology
Landscape Ethnoecology: Concepts of Biotic and Physical Space. Edited by Leslie Main Johnson and Eugene S. Hunn (keywords: ethnoecology, ethnogeography)
Trail of Story, Traveller’s Path—Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape. By Leslie Main Johnson (keywords: ethnoecology, ethnogeography)
Biocultural Diversity, Conservation & Resource Management
Agriculture and Food in Crisis. By Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar (keywords: food sustainabiity, agriculture, biocultural diversity)
Biocultural Diversity Conservation—A Global Source Book. By Luisa Maffi and Ellen Woodley (keywords: conservation, biodiversity)
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Ecological and Economic Foundations. Edited by Pushpam Kumar; an output of TEEB – The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study. (keywords: biodiversity, ecology, economics, development)
Gender, Culture, and Northern Fisheries. Edited by Joanna Kafarowski (keywords: resource management, gender, North)
The Pursuit of Ecotopia: Lessons from Indigenous and Traditional Societies for the Human Ecology of Our Modern World. By E.N. Anderson (keywords: conservation, sustainability)
Ethnobotany
Edible Medicines, An Ethnopharmacology of Food. By Nina L. Etkin (keywords: ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology)
Ethnozoology
[NEW] Ethnography of honey in the mbya-guaraní culture (in Spanish). By Marilyn Onion Badie (keywords: ethnoentomology)
[NEW] Spirits of our Whaling Ancestors, Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions. By Charlotte Cote (keywords: ethnozoology, indigenous rights)
Indigenous Knowledge
En estado de sitio: los kuna en Urabá. Vida cotidiana de una comunidad indígena en una zona de conflicto (In a State of Siege: the Kuna in Urabá: Everyday Life of a Colombian Indigenous community in a conflict Zone) By Maurizio Alí
