Books & Publications

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Animals the Ancestors Hunted We are very pleased to announce the publication, by Crawford House Publishing Australia of:

Animals the Ancestors Hunted: An Account of the Wild Mammals of the Kalam Area, Papua New Guinea by Ian Saem Majnep and Ralph Bulmer, foreword by Tim Flannery, illustrations by Chris Healey, edited by Robin Hide and Andrew Pawley.

Full publication details appear in the attached flyer. This is the second volume of a planned trilogy on Kalam ethnobiology by Majnep, a native speaker of Kalam, and Bulmer, a social anthropologist, the first being Birds of My Kalam Country, which appeared in 1977.

The present book has an unusual history. Majnep completed the Kalam text of Animals the Ancestors Hunted in the early 1980s. Before Bulmer died in 1988 he had translated the Kalam text into English and added commentaries to some of the chapters. The task of editing the bilingual version as a series of working papers then fell to Andrew Pawley, Bulmer's literary executor. Later, in accordance with the wishes of Majnep and Bulmer, Robin Hide and Pawley prepared for publication an English-only version of the book, a task that occupied several years.

Majnep has now drafted most of the Kalam text for the third volume of the trilogy, Kalam Plant Lore. However, a vast amount of work remains to be done before an English version of this with commentaries will be ready.

Multi-scale Transformations of Agriculture and the Environment

A special issue of the Journal of Agriculture and Human Values guest edited by Valerie Imbruce. Based on conference proceedings from the Ninth ICE held in Canterbury, UK in 2004. Published March 2007 in print and online See full text of the Editor's introduction and a summary and table of contents, or link to the journal homepage. Thanks to Springer Verlag for letting us post this publication.

Economic vulnerability, beer and HIV/AIDS: The struggle to sustain farmer livelihoods and indigenous sorghum varieties in eastern Uganda

Full text of a recent article by Cecilia Scurrah-Ehrhart. Thanks to the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, and Blackwell Publishing for letting us post this shared publication.

Eating and Healing, Traditional Food as Medicine

Eating & Healing(click for details), eds. Andrea Pieroni and Lisa Leimar Price. Explore the ethnobiology of food as medicine, medicine as food, around the world. Published by Haworth Press.

Publications arising from the Ninth ICE held in Canterbury UK (2004).

Published by Blackwell: Ethnobiology and the science of humankind, ed. Roy Ellen

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/9781405145893.

Published in Berghahn series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology:

http://www.berghahnbooks.com/series.php?pg=envi_anth

Volumes in press: Volumes under contract (titles subject to modification):
  • Locating environmental knowledge: a multi-disciplinary perspective on indigenous knowledge research, ed. Serena Heckler
  • Cultured trees: transformations in agroforestry systems, eds. Stefanie Klappa and Diane Russell
  • Gardening and dwelling: the social and ecological value of homegardens, ed. S. Heckler
  • The dynamics of biocultural diversity: people and minor plant resource pools in the New Europe. eds. Manuel Pardo de Santayana, Andrea Pieroni and Rajindra Puri
  • Shifting spaces, changing times: mobility, migration, displacement and indigenous-environment relations in lowland South America, ed. Miguel Alexiades

EBD BookIntellectual Imperatives in Ethnobiology: NSF Biocomplexity Workshop Report.

Intellectual Imperatives in EthnobiologyFor the NSF Biocomplexity workshop on “Intellectual Imperatives in Ethnobiology,” midcareer ethnobiologists met on April 4–6, 2002 at the Missouri Botanical Garden. In order to define and focus Ethnobiology—a popular and thriving field—this Ethnobiology Working Group was formed to review vital aspects of the field: research, methodology, analyses, education, and funding.

 

Ethnobiology and Biocultural Diversity, Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Ethnobiology

edited by John Richard Stepp, Felice Wyndham and Rebecca Zarger

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The most comprehensive collection of papers in the field to date, Ethnobiology and Biocultural Diversity presents state-of-the-art research and commentary from more than 50 of the world's leading ethnobiologists. Covering a wide range of eEBD Bookcosystems and world regions, the papers center on global change and the relationships among traditional knowledge, biological diversity and cultural diversity. All royalties go to benefit the ISE!

Ethnobiology and Biocultural DiversityCopies of the proceedings of the seventh ICE held in Athens Georgia USA are also available from Kent University in the United Kingdom: Ethnobiology and biocultural diversity, eds. John Stepp, Felice Wyndham and Rebecca Zarger. Please send orders to Jan Horn at the University of Kent UK (jch2@kent.ac.uk). The price is 30 GBP, 60 USD or 45 EURO, plus postage.

EBD Book Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity
edited by Pablo B. Eyzaguirre (2004-2006 ISE President) and Olga F. Linares

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The 34 compiled essays in this book explore "the diverse ways that home gardens are created and managed by peoples throughout the tropical world and how they contribute to the conservation and sustained use of agricultural biodiversity." From theoretical principles to real case studies, we see many surprising ways in which home gardeners can and do contribute to a rich plant heritage and its survival. Focusing on peoples throughout the tropical world, and including case studies from Cuba, Ethiopia, Ghana, Venezuela, and Vietnam, Home Gardens and Agrobiodiversity explains the ways both rural and urban households manage home-garden diversity in ways that enable them to cope with the change and adapt their crops to new situations.

Manuscript Proposal Submission Opportunity

Louisiana State University Press would be very pleased to consider your proposal or finished book-length manuscript on a wide range of cultural and environmental topics in: environmental history, political ecology, cultural studies, ethnobotany, ethnobiology, African American archaeology, historical archaeology, and plantation archaeology.

Please direct all inquiries, proposals or manuscripts to:

Joseph B. Powell
Acquisitions Editor
Environmental Studies and Geography
Louisiana State University Press
jpowell@lsu.edu