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| Author(s): | R. Ellen (Ed.) |
| Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing |
| ISBN: | 1405145897 |
| Format: | softback |
| 202pp | |
| Price: | £19.99 |
| Review Date: | 13 November 2006 |
| Review: | This book looks at the recent contribution in ethnobiology to anthropological insights in their widest sense. The eight articles describe the way in which the subject matter and methodologies of ethnobiological research address central anthropological questions about the character of culture, language, cognition, knowledge, subsistence practice and co-evolution. There are chapters on: the fictitious First Congress of Ethnozoological Nomenclature; Ethnobiology and the evolution of the human mind; The interplay of ethnographic and archaeological knowledge in the study of past human subsistence in the tropics; Amazonian historical ecologies; The interface between medical anthropology and medical Ethnobiology; Ethnobiology and applied anthropology – rapprochement of the academic with the practical; and Meeting of minds – how do we share our appreciation of traditional environmental knowledge? |