Table of Contents
Foreword Paul E. Minnis ix
Introduction: Letter to Young Ethnobiologists 3
Part I Redefining Ethnobiology: Toward a General Theory of the Interactions of Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity 11
1 Ethnobiology Emerging from a Time of Crisis 13
2 Defining New Disciplinary Trajectories Mixing Political Ecology with Ethnobiology 18
3 Ethnoscience, the "Oldest Science": A Needed Complement to Academic Science and Citizen Science to Stem the Losses of Biodiversity, Indigenous Languages, and Livelihoods 23
4 Autobiology?: The Traditional Ecological, Agricultural, and Culinary Knowledge of Us! 36
5 Searching for the Ancestral Diet: Did Mitochondrial Eve and Java Man Feast on the Same Foods? 42
6 Microbial Ethnobiology and the Loss of Distinctive Food Cultures 63
7 Ethnophenology and Climate Change 67
Part II Exemplifying How Ethnobiology Serves as a Pivotal Interdiscipline in Biocultural Conservation 73
8 Safeguarding Species, Languages, and Cultures in a Time of Diversity Loss: From the Colorado Plateau to Global Hotspots 75
9 Agrobiodiversity in an Oasis Archipelago 96
10 Passing on a Sense of Place and Traditional Ecological Knowledge between Generations 144
11 Biocultural and Ecogastronomic Restoration: The Renewing America's Food Traditions Alliance 156
12 Conservation You Can Taste: Heirloom Seed and Heritage Breed Recovery in North America 184
13 Multiple Lines of Evidence for the Origin of Domesticated Chile Pepper, Capsicum annuum, in Mexico 197
14 Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Endangered Species: Is Ethnobiology for the Birds? 215
Part III Writing Ethnobiology For Broader Appeal and Impact 223
15 Guadalupe Lopez Blanco: Reflections on How a Sea Turtle Hunter Turned His Community Toward Conservation 225
16 Paleozoologist Paul Martin, the Ghosts of Evolution, and the Rewilding of North America 233
17 Parque de la Papa: Vavilov's Dream for Potatoes? 243
18 Why Poetry Needs Ethnobiology: Hawkmoth Songs and Cross-Pollinations 249
19 Aromas Emanating from the Driest of Places 261
20 The Ethnobiology of Survival in Post-Apocalyptic Dystopias 277
Afterword: Ethnobiology in Metamorphosis 288
Contributors 297
Index 303
