#ethnobiology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ethnobiology, aggregated by home.social.
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Ethnopaleontology (Paleontology 🦕)
Ethnopaleontology is the study of the relationship between humans and fossils, or the preserved remains of ancient organisms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnopaleontology
#Ethnopaleontology #Ethnobiology #Paleontology #TraditionalKnowledge
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Peaches Spread Across North America Through Indigenous Networks, Radiocarbon Dating And Document Analysis Show
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https://phys.org/news/2024-11-peaches-north-america-indigenous-networks.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52597-8 <-- shared paper
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https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/nov/27/meet-the-peach-that-traveled-the-trail-of-tears/ <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #FirstNation #cultivation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #indigenous #forest #farming #sustenance #foodsecurity #traditional #deliberate #garden #ethnobiology #archaeology #anthropology #biology #forestgarden #transplanting #management #wildplant #biogeography #culture #ethnohistory #peach #peaches #fruit #tree #orchard #introduced #Spanish #indigenised #dates #dating #radiocarbondating #pits #peachpits #chronology #chronological #model #modeling #landmanagement #landuse #practices #socioecology #colonialisation #NorthAmerica #USA -
Indigenous Tribes Engineered British Columbia’s Modern Hazelnut Forests More Than 7,000 Years Ago
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https://www.science.org/content/article/indigenous-tribes-engineered-british-columbia-s-modern-hazelnut-forests-more-7000-years <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2402304121 <-- shared paper
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[not my usual ‘sort of thing’ to post - as broad as that is - but I found this fascinating; it reminds me, in a sense, of the Incas incrementally selecting corn stock that can handle higher and higher altitudes, in ‘research stations’, although those were a domesticated crop]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #hazelnut #nut #Canada #BritishColumbia #FirstNation #cultivation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #indigenous #forest #farming #sustenance #foodsecurity #traditional #wildfire #prescribedburn #landrights #law #deliberate #garden #ethnobiology #archaeology #linguistics #name #connections #anthropology #biology #forestgarden #transplanting #management #wildplant #biogeography #culture -
On the ExCiteS blog, a conference report from Simon Hoyte on The International Society of Ethnobiology conference in Marrakech, Moroccohttps://uclexcites.blog/2024/07/19/a-desert-as-a-garden-the-international-society-of-ethnobiology-conference-in-marrakech-morocco/. I'm really glad that I have access to funds that allow the support the travel of researchers post project funding, as in this case. #Ethnobiology #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #IndigenousKnolwedge
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📖 In a paper published in the Journal of Ethnobiology, Marta Macedo examines "how cannabis was part and parcel of the lives of peoples from Angola recruited to São Tomé and, consequently, of the island's plantation worlds in the late nineteenth century." 🇸🇹
🔓#OpenAccess:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02780771231222335#Histodons #EnvHum #EnvironmentalHistory #EnvironmentalHumanities #Ethnobiology #AgrarianHistory #HistóriaAmbiental #Angola #SãoTomé #Cannabis #Plantations #HistóriaAgrária
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As someone who ran the only other #ethnobotany programme in the UK (Aberdeen, which was closed more than 10 years ago), and who taught #ethnobiology at the Edinburgh Botanics for many years, I believe I am qualified to say that the closure of ethnobotany, ethnobiology, and anthropology at Kent is appalling cultural vandalism.
Dark times are upon us, and the custodians of the lineages of wisdom must be careful now.
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Well intentioned, but tone-deaf, or just completely unaware of conservation biology outside the USA and all modern ethnobiology?
"It's important that we work with communities to understand what their needs are—and then build a better partnership," Carlen said. "We can't just show residents the app and tell them that they need to use it, because that ignores the underlying problem that our society is still segregated and not everyone has the resources to participate."
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pan3.10592This paper seems to overlook that ignoring affluent White urban/global Northern conservation projects can be an act of resistance. It's not just about "not having the resources"; it's about choosing what matters, about having the power to choose one's conversation partners and whether or not to share knowledge.
In #ethnobiology, scientists who happen to be from dominant communities actively work to overcome oppression by listening first, acknowledging anger, awaiting permission to collaborate (which may never come!), co-designing research, and breaking up privilege in their own institutions. We've been in this struggle for decades. Organisations like the #ICCA are led by local/Indigenous community stewards of biodiversity. #IPBES and #GEF worked all this out, even if there are still a few bumps.
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I think I'm going to head to the Society for #Ethnobiology meeting in St. Louis in April. The SoE was my first professional meeting 20 years ago and I'm excited to return
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Is anyone else here at #IMISCOE ? I just gave a presentation in a wonderful panel on food, sustainability, and migration organised by Elena Mescoli.
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Every few years I end up doing a (more-or-less) deep dive into the history and taxonomy of the genus Citrus. It _never_ fails to delight and confuse me.
Talon, Caruso, and Gmitter, _The Genus Citrus_. Woodhead, Duxford UK, 2020.
Woodhead is (of course) a tentacle of Elsevier, but the summary of recent work is just headbending, and they're not even looking at locally produced cultivars and hybrids in particular Asian culture areas. I do wish there had benn a chapter on #ethnobiology . Missed opportunity there.
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In #ethnobiology we use walking together with experts as a hybrid interview/mapping #researchMethod --- this is a lovely example of a similar embodied collaboration being used as environmental #countermapping in an urban area in Switzerland.
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-affective-relationship-local-environment.html -
@pvonhellermannn count me in 🙂 In my work as a garden designer, I'm really pushing for #wildlife habitat & #NativePlants to be integrated with #ForestGarden edible crops.
A brilliant related book is Kat Anderson’s Tending the Wild, she has introduced me to the existence of #ethnobiology and #EconomicBotany!
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@ProfBatGirl I'd I had unlimited money and no COVID I'd be headed to the society for #ethnobiology in Atlanta, #ESA in Portland, Royal #Geograpy Society in London, and British #ecological Society in Belfast.
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Yurok Indigenous knowledge in the Klamath area of California combines with forest ecology to build a better picture of long-term human-led fire management and why these mountains ate now at risk for fires.
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Viking berserkers may have used henbane to induce trance-like state - Enlarge / Sixth century Viking matrix used in the manufacture of helmet plaques, depicting Odin acc... more: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1570271 #anthropology #ethnobiology #norsehistory #science #history #vikings