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ANTH 591: Ethnobiology—Traditional Knowledge of Plants, Animals, and Land in Contemporary Global Context (Rev. 4) Report a Broken Link

Unit 1: Introduction to Ethnobiology

Required Reading
Anderson, E. N. 2011. “Ethnobiology: Overview of a Growing Field.” In Ethnobiology, edited by E. N. Anderson, D. Pearsall, E. Hunn, and N. Turner, 1–14. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Ford, Richard I. 2011. “History of Ethnobiology.” In Ethnobiology, edited by E. N. Anderson, D. Pearsall, E. Hunn, and N. Turner, 15–26. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Barbeau, Marius, and William Beynon. 1987. “The Origin of Nettle Fibre.” In Tricksters, Shamans, and Heroes: Tsimshian Narratives I, collected by Marius Barbeau and William Beynon, edited by John J. Cove and George F. MacDonald, 84–88. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Mercury Series Directorate Paper no. 3. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Recommended Reading
Agrawal, Arun. 1995. “Dismantling the Divide Between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge.” Development and Change 26, no. 3: 413–39.
Berkes, Fikret. 1993. “Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Perspective.” In Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and Cases, edited by Julian T. Inglis, 1–9. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre and International Program on Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
Ruddle, Kenneth. 1993. “The Transmission of Traditional Ecological Knowledge.” In Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and Cases, edited by Julian T. Inglis, 17–32. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre and International Program on Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
Watson, G., and J. G. A. Goulet. 1992. “Gold In; Gold Out: The Objectification of Dene Tha Accounts of Dreams and Visions.” Journal of Anthropological Research 48, no. 3 (Autumn): 215–30.
Further Reading
Goulet, Jean-Guy. 1998. Ways of Knowing: Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Dene Tha. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Unit 2: Ethnobiological Classification

Required Reading
Turner, Nancy J. 1987. “General Plant Categories in Thompson and Lillooet, Two Interior Salish Languages of British Columbia.” Journal of Ethnobiology 7, no. 1 (Summer): 55–82.
Atran, Scott. 1990. “Common Sense: Its Scope and Limits.” In Cognitive Foundations of Natural History: Towards an Anthropology of Science, 1–13, 275–276. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Martin, Gary J. 1995. Ethnobotany: A Methods Manual. London: Chapman and Hall.

Read sections 7.5 to 7.9 on pages 205–221.
Recommended Reading
Clément, Daniel. 1995. “Why Is Taxonomy Utilitarian?” Journal of Ethnobiology 15, no. 1: 1–44.
Hunn, Eugene S. 1982. “The Utilitarian Factor in Folk Biological Classification.” American Anthropologist 84, no. 4: 830–47.
Hunn, Eugene S. 1998. “Mixtepec Zapotec Ethnobiological Classification: A Preliminary Sketch and Theoretical Commentary.” Anthropologica 40, no. 1: 35–48.
Hunn, Eugene S., and David H. French. 1984. “Alternatives to Taxonomic Hierarchy: The Sahaptin Case.” Journal of Ethnobiology 4, no. 1: 73–92.
Johnson Gottesfeld, Leslie M., and Sharon Hargus. 1998. “Classification and Nomenclature in Wet’suwet’en Ethnobotany: A Preliminary Examination.” Journal of Ethnobiology 18, no. 1: 69–101.
Turner, Nancy J. 1989. “‘All Berries Have Relations’: Mid-Range Folk Plant Groupings in Thompson and Lillooet Interior Salish.” Journal of Ethnobiology 9, no. 1: 69–110.
Zent, E. L., and S. R. Zent. 1999. “Is the Frailejón a Life Form or an Unaffiliated Generic? Examining the Rank of an Endemic Paramo Plant.” Journal of Ethnobiology 19, no. 2: 143–176.

Unit 3: Ethnobotany and Plants as Foods

Required Reading
Nolan, Justin M., and Nancy J. Turner. 2011. “Ethnobotany: The Study of People–Plant Relationships.” In Ethnobiology, edited by E. N. Anderson, D. Pearsall, E. Hunn, and N. Turner, 133–47. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Alcorn, Janis B. 1981. “Huastec Noncrop Resource Management: Implications for Prehistoric Rain Forest Management.” Human Ecology 9, no. 4 (December): 395–417.
Kuhnlein, Harriet V., and Nancy J. Turner. 1991. “What’s So Special About Indigenous Foods?” In Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples: Nutrition, Botany and Use, 5–8. London: Routledge.
Kuhnlein, Harriet V., and Nancy J. Turner. 1991. “An Overview of the Nutrient Value and Use of Plant Foods by Indigenous Peoples.” In Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples: Nutrition, Botany and Use, 9–23. London: Routledge.
Johnson Gottesfeld, Leslie M. 1994. “Wet’suwet’en Ethnobotany: Traditional Plant Uses.” Journal of Ethnobiology 14, no. 2: 185–210.
Howard, Patricia L. 2003. “Woman and the Plant World: An Exploration.” In Women & Plants: Gender Relations in Biodiversity Management and Conservation, edited by Patricia Howard, 1–48. London and New York: Zed Books.
Daniggelis, Ephrosine. 2003. “Women and ‘Wild’ Foods: Nutrition and Household Security among Rai and Sherpa Forager-Farmers in Eastern Nepal.” In Women & Plants: Gender Relations in Biodiversity Management and Conservation, edited by Patricia Howard, 83–97. London: Zed Books.
Johnson Gottesfeld, Leslie, M. 1995. “The Role of Plant Foods in Traditional Wet’suwet’en Nutrition.” Ecology of Food and Nutrition 34, no. 2: 149–69.
Recommended Reading
Arnason, Thor, Richard J. Hebda, and Timothy Johns. 1981. “Use of Plants for Food and Medicine by Native Peoples of Eastern Canada.” Canadian Journal of Botany 59, no. 11: 2189–325.
Kuhnlein, H. V., and N. J. Turner. 1986. “Cow-Parsnip (Heracleum lanatum Michx.): An Indigenous Vegetable of Native People of Northwest North America.” Journal of Ethnobiology 6, no. 2: 309–24.
Further Reading
Marles, Robin J., Christina Clavelle, Leslie Monteleone, Natalie Tays, and Donna Burns. 2000. Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada’s Northwest Boreal Forest. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Unit 4: Plants as Medicines

Required Reading
Johnson Gottesfeld, Leslie M. 1994. “Wet’suwet’en Ethnobotany: Traditional Plant Uses.” Journal of Ethnobiology 14, no. 2: 185–210.
Johnson Gottesfeld, Leslie M., and Beverley Anderson. 1988. “Gitksan Traditional Medicine: Herbs and Healing.” Journal of Ethnobiology 8, no. 1: 13–33.
Browner, C. H. 1985. “Criteria for Selecting Herbal Remedies.” Ethnology 24, no. 1 (January): 13–32.
Shankar, Darshan, and B. Majumdar. 1997. “Beyond the Biodiversity Convention: The Challenges Facing the Biocultural Heritage of India’s Medicinal Plants.” In Medicinal Plants for Forest Conservation and Health Care, edited by Gerard Bodeker, K. K. S. Bhat, Jeffrey Burley, and Paul Vantomme, 87–99. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations.
Moerman, Daniel E. 1998. “Plant Use by Native Americans.” In Native American Ethnobotany, 11–18. Portland: Timber Press.
Chalifoux, Luke, with Anne Anderson. 1980. “The Indian Way.” In Some Native Herbal Remedies, A–C. Devonian Botanic Garden Publication 8A. Edmonton: Friends of the Devonian Botanic Garden.
De Laguna, Frederica. 1972. “Cures, Medicines and Amulets.” In Under Mount Saint Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit, 654–60. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Hellson, John C., and M. Gadd. 1974. Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians, 62–65; 73. National Museum of Man Mercury Series. Canadian Ethnology Service Paper no. 19. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada.
Kindscher, Kelly. 1992. “Echinacea angustifolia, Purple Coneflower.” In Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide, 84–94. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.
Sheldon, Jennie Wood, Michael J. Balick, and Sarah A. Laird. 1997. Excerpts from Medicinal Plants: Can Utilization and Conservation Coexist? 1–3; 5–36; 87–91; 96; 97–98. Bronx, NY: The New York Botanical Garden.

Unit 5: Plants for Technology

Required Reading
Johnson Gottesfeld, Leslie M. 1994. “Wet’suwet’en Ethnobotany: Traditional Plant Uses.” Journal of Ethnobiology 14, no. 2: 185–210.
Turner, Nancy J. John Thomas, Barry F. Carlson, and Robert T. Ogilvie. 1983. “Plant Materials.” In Ethnobotany of the Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island, 22–43. Occasional Papers of the British Columbia Provincial Museum no. 24. Victoria: The British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria, and Parks Canada.
Required Viewing
Woolf, Terry, dir. 1997. The Dogrib Birchbark Canoe. 28 min. Lone Woolf TV Production Services.
Recommended Reading
Andrews, Tom, and John Zoe. 1998. “The Dogrib Birchbark Canoe Project.” Arctic 51, no. 1: 75–81.
Stewart, H. 1984. Cedar: Tree of Life to the Northwest Coast Indians. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre.

Unit 6: Ethnozoology

Required Reading
Gwich’in Elders. 1997. “Vadzaih, Caribou.” In Nành’Kak Geenjit Gwich’in Ginjik: Gwich’in Words About the Land, 19; 24–38. Inuvik: Gwich’in Renewable Resource Board.
Felger, Richard Stephen, and Mary Beck Moser. 1985. “Animal Life.” In People of the Desert and Sea: Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians, 36–54. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Evans-Pritchard, E. E. 1940. “Interest in Cattle” and “Oecology.” In The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People, 36–48; 72–74. Oxford University Press.
Goldschmidt, Walter. 1976. “The Role of Livestock among the Sebei.” In Culture and Behavior of the Sebei: A Study in Continuity and Adaptation, 112–114; 139–145. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Required Viewing
Badger, Mark O., prod. 1987. Make Prayers to the Raven: The Life in the Bear. 28 min. KUAC-TV, University of Alaska.
Gandolfo, Mark, Tom King, and JoAnne Peden, dirs. 1995. Rabbit Boss. 26.5 min. University of Nevada Oral History Program.
Further Reading
Carr, H. Sorayya. 1991. “The Maya Medicinal Turtle, Xkokak, and a Suggested Alternate Reading of Two Yucatec Ethnomedical Texts.” Journal of Ethnobiology 11, no. 2: 187–92.
Mandujano, Salvador, and Victor Rico-Gray. 1991. “Hunting, Use, and Knowledge of the Biology of the White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus Hays) by the Maya of Central Yucatan, Mexico.” Journal of Ethnobiology 11, 2: 175–83.

Unit 7: Animals and World View—Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Alaska

Required Reading
Brightman, Robert A. 1993. Grateful Prey: Rock Cree Human–Animal Relationships. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Please read the following excerpts:

  • In the section “There Was just Animals Before,” read: “Animal Transformations.”
  • In the section “Dreaming All the Bottom of the Water,” read: “Introduction.”
  • In the section “The Same Respect You Give Yourself,” read: “Introduction,” “Mortuary Deposition,” and “Animals and Women.”
Johnson Gottesfeld, Leslie M. 1994. “Conservation, Territory, and Traditional Beliefs: An Analysis of Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en Subsistence, Northwest British Columbia, Canada.” Human Ecology 22, no. 4: 443–65.
Hall, Ken (Chief Chequekash). 2002. “Legend of the Hunter, Kemano and Kitlope, BC.” Unpublished Manuscript.
Harris, Kenneth B., and Frances M. P. Robinson. 1974. “Strange Feasts.” In Visitors Who Never Left: The Origin of the People of Damelahamid, 45–51. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

Enter page 77 to access the beginning of the reading.
Dene Wodih Society. 1990. “Wolverine, Giant Skunk, and Mountain Lion.” In Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions From Northern Alberta, edited by Angela Wheelock and Patrick Moore, xi; 24–27. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.
Boas, Franz, and Henry W. Tate. 1916 “27. The Prince Who Was Taken Away by the Spring Salmon.” In Tsimshian Mythology.
Recommended Reading
Tate, Henry W. 1993. “The Porcupine Hunter: Story of the Porcupine Hunter.” In The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories: The Original Tsimshian Texts of Henry Tate, annotated and transcribed by Ralph Maud, 14–21. Vancouver: Talonbooks.
Tate, Henry W. 1993. “The Girl Who Married the Bear: The History of Kbi’shount.” In The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories: The Original Tsimshian Texts of Henry Tate, annotated and transcribed by Ralph Maud, 30–41. Vancouver: Talonbooks.

Unit 8: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Traditional Environmental Management

Required Reading
Turner, Nancy J. 1999. “‘Time to Burn’: Traditional Use of Fire to Enhance Resource Production by Aboriginal Peoples in British Columbia.” In Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest, edited by Robert Boyd, 185–218. Oregon State University Press.
Anderson, Kat. 1993. “Native Californians as Ancient and Contemporary Cultivators.” In Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians, edited by Thomas C. Blackburn and Kat Anderson, 151–74. Menlo Park CA: Ballena Press.
Hallam, Sylvia J. 1989. “Plant Usage and Management in Southwest Australian Societies.” In Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation, edited by D. R. Harris and G. C. Hillman, 136–51. London: Unwin Hyman.
Ford, Richard I., ed. 1994. “Introduction.” In The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany, 2nd ed., 165–67. Anthropological Papers no. 67. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
Kunstadter, Peter. 1994. “Ecological Modification and Adaptation: An Ethnobotanical View of Lua' Swiddeners in Northwestern Thailand.” In The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany, 2nd ed., edited by Richard I. Ford, 169–200. Museum of Anthropology, No. 67. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
Required Viewing
Kennedy, Grant, prod., and H. T. Lewis, dir. 1978. Fires of Spring. University of Alberta, Motion Pictures.
Maughan, Graham, prod. and dir. 1996. Second Nature: Building Forests in West Africa’s Savannas. 41 min. Cyrus Productions.
Recommended Reading
Anderson, E. N. 1996. “Managing the Rainforest: Maya Agriculture in the Town of the Wild Plums.” In Ecologies of the Heart: Emotion, Belief, and the Environment, 72–84. New York: Oxford University Press.
Atran, Scott. 1993. “Itza Maya Tropical Agro-Forestry.” Current Anthropology 34, no. 5: 633–99.
Johnson, Leslie Main. 2000. “‘A Place That’s Good’: Gitksan Landscape Perception and Ethnoecology.” Human Ecology 28, no. 2: 301–25.
Further Reading
Minnis, Paul E., and Wayne J. Elisens, eds. 2000. Biodiversity and Native America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Unit 9: Contemporary Issues—Traditional Cultures, Resource Management and Conservation, and Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property

Required Reading
Hrenchuk, Carl. 1993. “Native Land Use and Common Property: Whose Common?” In Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and Cases, edited by Julian Inglis, 69–86. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre and International Program on Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
Wills, Russel M., and Richard G. Lipsey. 1999. “Executive Summary.” In An Economic Strategy to Develop Non-Timber Forest Products and Services in British Columbia, v–xxiii. Forest Renewal BC Project No. PA97538-ORE Final Report.
Horn, Christa M., Michael P. Gilmore, and Bryan A. Endress. 2012. “Ecological and Socio-economic Factors Influencing Aguaje (Mauritia flexuosa): Resource Management in Two Indigenous Communities in the Peruvian Amazon.” Forest Ecology and Management 267, no. 1: 93–103.
Singh, Samar, Avenash Datta, Anit Bakshi, Arvind Khare, Sushil Saigal, and Navin Kapoor. 1997. “Participatory Forest Management in West Bengal, India.” In Harvesting Wild Species: Implications for Biodiversity Conservation, edited by Curtis H. Freese, 49–92. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Brush, Stephen B. 1996. “Whose Knowledge, Whose Genes, Whose Rights?” In Valuing Local Knowledge: Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights, edited by Stephen B. Brush and Doreen Stabinsky, 1–21. Washington, D.C. and Covelo, CA: Island Press.
Hampton, Eber, and Sakej Henderson. n. d. “Executive Summary.” In Discussion Paper on Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property: Scoping the Definitions and Issues. Contract No. 95–0227. Reproduced in Protecting Knowledge, Traditional Resource Rights in the New Millennium, Conference Book February 23–26, 2000. Vancouver: Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.
Required Viewing
Wild, Nettie, dir. 1993. Blockade: It’s About the Land and Who Controls It. 90 min. Canada Wild Productions.
Recommended Reading
Dwyer, Peter. 1994. “Modern Conservation and Indigenous Peoples: In Search of Wisdom.” Pacific Conservation Biology 1, no. 2: 91–97.
Fienup-Riordan, Ann. 1999. “Yaqulget Qaillum Pilartat (What the Birds Do): Yup’ik Eskimo Understanding of Geese and Those Who Study Them." Arctic 52, no. 1: 1–22.
Inglis, Julian T. 1993. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and Cases. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre and International Program on Traditional Ecological Knowledge.

Introduction and Chapters 4, 5, 9
Roberts, Mere, Waerete Norman, Nganeko Minkinnick, Del Wihongi, and Carmen Kirkwood. 1995. “Kaitiakitanga: Maori Perspectives on Conservation.” Pacific Conservation Biology 2, no. 1: 7–20.
Shankar, Uma, Ravi Hegde, and K. S. Bawa. 1998. “Extraction of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Forests of the Biligiri Rangan Hills, India: Fuelwood Pressure and Management Options.” Economic Botany 52, no. 3: 320–36.
Stevens, Stan. 1997. “Consultation, Co-Management, and Conflict in Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park, Nepal.” In Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, edited by Stan Stevens, 63–97. Washington DC: Island Press.
Further Reading
Anderson, E. N. 1996. Ecologies of the Heart: Emotion, Belief and the Environment. New York: Oxford University Press.