The dates for early registration rates has been extended through the end of this month (29 February). The online registration for the 13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology to be held in Montpellier, 20-25 May 2012, is now open. Please visit the page "Registration" of the congress website for further instructions about how to proceed. The various categories of registration fees are as well documented on this webpage. Please...
The dates for early registration rates has been extended through the end of this month (29 February). The online registration for the 13th Congress of the International Society of Ethnobiology to be held in Montpellier, 20-25 May 2012, is now open. Please visit the page "Registration" of the congress website for further instructions about how to proceed. The various categories of registration fees are as well documented on this webpage. Please...
Contributed by Ileana Valenzuela, member of Grupo Solidario, ISE Small Grant Recipient 2005-07 El Grupo solidario de acción y propuesta de Petén (GSAPP) The ASAPP is a nonprofit association formed by a small number of people, mostly community leaders (men, women, old, young, indigenous, non-indigenous, believers and non-believers), who formed El GSAPP in 2002. Its purpose was to: A) Analyze and reflect on how they could face the threats of...
Contributed by ISE members Elaine Elisabetsky and Kristina Plenderleith Darrell Posey was an anthropologist and ethnobiologist who lived with the Kayapó Indians of Brazil in the 1970s and 1980s. It was a time of rapid change in the Jê community and his research material recording Kayapó life at that time vividly records these changes. Darrell worked closely in the village with his shaman mentors, in particular recording their knowledge of...
Contributed by ISE Member Amy Eisenberg1 While serving as an International Expert in Hunan Province of southwest China at the Research Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology, Jishou University in impoverished Xiangxi Autonomous Minority Prefecture, Maid Wux, my Hmong graduate student took us to her high mountain village of Hlib Jiangl in the rural reaches of Guizhou Province to celebrate Naox Niex, the Hmong New Year in November. We shared some...
