The 33rd annual meeting of the Society of Ethnobiology "The Meeting Place: Integrating Ethnobiological Knowledge", will be held 5–8 May, 2010, in Victoria, British Columbia. This year's conference theme celebrates the potential of ethnobiology to bridge disciplines, ideas, and communities, and to foster an understanding of the connections between the biological and cultural worlds. Click here for more details.
Ethnobiological News
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33rd Annual Meetings, Victoria, BC. 5–8 May, 2010. "The Meeting Place: Integrating Ethnobiological Knowledge"2009/07/15 - 8:28am
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2010 International Society of Ethnobiology Congress, May 9–14 in Tofino, B.C., Back-to-back with SoE Conference2009/11/08 - 11:58am
2010 International Society of Ethnobiology Congress
May 9–14
Tofino, B.C.http://ise.arts.ubc.ca/congresses/future.php
Back-to-back with 2010 SoE Conference.
Tofino is a beautiful 5 hour drive from Victoria. Consider renting a car a car and going to both meetings!
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2010 Conference Poster Announcement2009/08/11 - 7:08pm
This year, we are planning a special poster reception on Thursday night. The posters will be prominently displayed and people can visit them while enjoying refreshments at the reception.
In addition, his year we will be offering an award for the BEST ETHNOBIOLOGY POSTER. The winner will receive a cash prize of $300. -
Announcing the SoE Undergraduate Student Award2010/02/10 - 8:53pm
The Society of Ethnobiology is looking for a keen undergraduate ethnobiologist to sit on our Board as an appointed "student advisor". The student should come with ideas and energy to increase undergraduate student involvement in our Society.
This is a one-year position that comes with a one-year membership in the Society, a waiver for our Society of Ethnobiology annual meeting registration, accommodation for 3 nights during the conference, and $250 USD to put towards travel. More details »
If you feel you are well suited for this position, send a one-page (maximum) letter to Dr. Marsha Quinlan at mquinlan@wsu.edu explaining who you are, your interest in ethnobiology, and your ideas to increase undergraduate student involvement in our Society. There is no deadline for submission, but the adjudication for the award will happen in early Fall of every year.
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Forum on Cross-cultural Environmental Research and Management, J. of the Royal Society of New Zealand2009/11/29 - 11:16pm
An ethnobiology and co-management research team at the University of Otago, New Zealand recently convened and edited a Forum on "Cross-cultural Environmental Research and Management", which has just been published in The Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. The Forum publications can be accessed here:
http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/publish/Journals/jrsnz/2009/default.aspx
The Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand is open to continuing the discussion on cross-cultural environmental research and management in the upcoming year by publishing replies (from the authors) or contributions from new authors. Any continuation would be either as letters, short communications, or full papers, depending on the length and nature of each new contribution. For more information, please contact Henrik Moller at the University of Otago (henrik.moller@otago.ac.nz, ecosys@ihug.co.nz).
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Reviewers Solicited for Journal of Ethnobiology2009/10/06 - 10:45pm
The Journal of Ethnobiology is seeking to expand its pool of volunteers who review manuscripts submitted to the Journal’s editors for publication. The Journal receives manuscripts in paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology, ethnobotany, ethnozoology, ethnoecology, linguistic ethnobiology, and other related areas of anthropology and biology. If you have expertise in one or more of these fields and are willing to serve as a reviewer, please contact the Journal’s editors, Virginia Popper and Heather Trigg, at editor@ethnobiology.org If you are interested in reviewing ethnobiology-related books and multimedia for the Journal, please contact book review editor Cynthia Fowler at fowlerct@wofford.edu We welcome suggestions for materials to review, or we could provide you with one of the texts in our inventory. Both the Journal of Ethnobiology and the Society thank you for your interest and service.
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Archaeobotany Methodology Survey2009/09/04 - 9:52am
Naomi F. Miller, Research Project Manager at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, has organized a questionnaire about how archaeobotanists deal with a variety of practical issues concerning the analysis of macroremains. The survey should take no more than 30 minutes to answer (probably a lot less). Naomi plans to report the results at the 2010 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in a forum organized by Christine Hastorf. She will also post the results online or in a publication. The survey questionnaire will be available online until December 1, 2009.
If you are a practicing archaeobotanist/paleoethnobotanist and would like to participate in the survey, please see this link: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~nmiller0/links.html
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Free access to Journal of Ethnobiology via BioOne for Individual Society Members2008/11/30 - 4:14pm
Members* of the Society of Ethnobiology have free access to the Journal of Ethnobiology through BioOne, a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals. Click here to access the BioOne link. Note: you will require a valid login and password to access this page.
*Free access to BioONe is only available to our individual members (not for institutions).
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Announcing our book-length on-line publication series, "Contributions in Ethnobiology"2009/05/19 - 6:21am
Contributions in Ethnobiology is a peer-reviewed monograph series published electronically by the Society of Ethnobiology. The series is a forum for publishing original book-length research on past or present relationships of human societies with their biological worlds. Contributions are data-rich, state-of-the-art studies, which may be either single-authored or edited volumes with multiple authors. On-line publication allows freedom from traditional publishing restraints on specialist topics, unusual length, and number of figures. The series’ intended readership is interdisciplinary and includes academics and practitioners in archaeology, biology, cultural anthropology, ecology, geography, and pharmacology, among others.
Click here for more details about our exciting new publication series.
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SoE-sponsored Ethnobiology Textbook Underway with Wiley-Blackwell Publishers2008/12/08 - 3:06am
The Society of Ethnobiology has embarked on a major project: producing a comprehensive textbook of ethnobiology. The field of ethnobiology has grown very rapidly in recent years, with several international societies and journals dedicated to it. Ethnobotany and medical ethnobiology in particular are now major fields with hundreds of active researchers. Centers at major universities, and independent research institutes, now exist all over the world. Much of the cutting-edge research is happening in China, India, Mexico, Brazil, and other countries outside of North America and Europe.
The SoE Board feels that the time is right for a textbook devoted specifically to the field of ethnobiology, including its interdisciplinary theoretical groundings, historical development, and diverse applications. The textbook, currently under contract with Wiley-Blackwell publishers, will cover all aspects of ethnobiology, including archaeological, ethnological, linguistic, and laboratory-biological approaches.
The textbook chapters will be written by leading ethnobiological experts, with submissions coordinated by an Editorial Team for this project. The Team members are: Karen Adams (University of Arizona), Eugene Anderson (University of California, Riverside), Deborah Pearsall (University of Missouri), Eugene Hunn (University of Washington) and Nancy Turner (University of Victoria).
The resulting textbook will be a basic reference primarily intended for upper division students: juniors, seniors, beginning graduates. It will allow students to begin doing guided research in any area of ethnobiology, from archaeoethnozoology to ethnomycology. It will also be a reference source for the general public and for scholars of all types.
For more information about the SoE textbook project, please contact Gene Anderson: gene@ucr.edu.
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See Sandra Peacock on the Knowledge Network2008/06/01 - 4:08pm
The Knowledge Network did a short documentary on the research of our Board member, Sandra Peacock (University of British Columbia, Okanagan). The piece was aired in the series The Leading Edge: Innovation in BC. It features archaeological research on ancient earth ovens at the White Rock Springs site, a 2000 year old root collecting and processing locale in the Hat Creek Valley, B.C. The work was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Brian Kooyman, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary and Dr. David Pokotylo, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. The documentary is available on the Knowledge Network website at: http://www.knowledgenetwork.ca/leadingedge/2008/index.html
The documentary was filmed in August 2007 after researchers at the Knowledge Network read a short article about Sandra's work in UBC Reports in 2006. The link to the UBC Reports story is: http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2006/06sep12/blackholes.html -
A Zapotec Natural History wins publishers' award2008/12/08 - 5:20am
Longtime SoE member and past president Eugene Hunn's new book A Zapotec Natural History has been awarded first place in the Anthropology/Archeology category of the 2009 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards). These awards are sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Assocation of American Publishers.
Congratulations to Gene on this impressive achievement! His book is available through University of Arizona Press.
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2008 Recipients of the Barbara Lawrence Award2008/06/01 - 4:16pm
Shawn Collins (Sandstone Archaeology, LLC), Deborah M. Pearsall (University of Missouri), and John G. Jones (Washington State University). Collapsing Assumptions: Climate and Agriculture in Prehispanic Coastal Guatemala. (Oral presentation). [Abstract]
J. Kevin Hanselka. (Washington University in St. Louis). Casual Cultivation among Contemporary Small Scale Farmers in Southwestern Tamaulipas, Mexico, and Implications for Prehistoric Low-level Food Production. (Oral presentation). [Abstract]
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Society Members Publish New Books2008/06/01 - 4:10pmMargaret Scarry (University of North Carolina), our Secretary-Treasurer for the past six years, along with member Elizabeth Reitz (University of Georgia),and Sylvia Scudder, have just published a new book entitled, Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology. Learn more about this book here. Jan Timbrook (Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History) past President of the Society, recently published Chumash Ethnobotany – a beautiful compendium of this southern Californian groups vast ethnobotanical knowledge.
Gene Hunn (University of Washington), past president of the Society, brings together many years of ethobiological research with the Zapotec in A Zapotec Natural History Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbëë. Visit http://galley.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid1957.htm. -
Nancy Turner Wins Two Prestigious Awards2008/06/01 - 4:12pmNancy Turner (University of Victoria) past president of the Society, recently received two prestigious awards. She received the William L. Brown Award for Excellence in Genetic Resource Conservation and is also one of 10 Canadian researchers awarded the prestigious Killam Research Fellowship for 2007. This is a two year award in which she is going to write a major book on ethnobotany, bringing together 40 years of ethnobotanical research in Canada and worldwide. To find out more about this project, visit http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=797. Find out more about the William L. Brown award here http://www.wlbcenter.org/award_fellowship.htm.
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