Announcement: Belém + 30!

“Belém+30”: 16th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology XII Brazilian Symposium of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology Belém do Pará, Brazil August 7-10, 2018 The International Society of Ethnobiology is proud to announce that the 16th ISE Congress will be returning to the city of Belém, Brazil for the first time since the original International Congress of… Read more »

Update on the 2016 ISE Congress

Contributed by Christine Kabuye The 15th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology will be held at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, 1-7 August 2016. We are glad to welcome all to the 2016 congress to be hosted by Makerere University in collaboration with the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology, and Buganda Kingdom…. Read more »

Hawaiʻi Beyond the Wave, Hawaiʻi Beyond the Postcard travels to the Kingdom of the Dragon

Contributed by Mascha Gugganig After a day long journey from Vancouver via China and Nepal, my accompanying traveling exhibit had mastered what many others experienced that attended the 14th conference of the ISE in Bhutan. A small airplane released a number of conference attendants finally reaching their destination. Their awe and wonder spoke through a… Read more »

Importance of Environmental and Cultural Preservation: Perspectives of Young People on a Distant Country, its Culture and Traditions

Contributed by Dominique Chirpaz Our project, born in 2012 in Montpellier, has been a long and precarious adventure . . . But finally, we don’t regret anything: the long months passed to prepare our common presentation, the stress linked to the various administrative problems to solve, as well as the financial support research! This travel… Read more »

The Use of Live Songbirds in Mexico

Contributed by Blanca Roldán-Clarà Last summer, I participated in the 14th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE) that took place in Bhutan with my PhD research. I had an excellent overall impression of the congress and really felt that I belong to the ethnobiologist group. I presented a poster entitled: Perceptions of the… Read more »