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Volume 17, Number 1 • Spring/Summer 1997

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  ARTICLES
  Rarámuri Necklaces: A Rapidly Changing Folk-Art Form in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Northern Mexico
Karen R. Adams
Enrique Salmón
  Generic Species and Basic Levels: Essence and Appearance in Folk Biology
Scott Atran
Paul Estin
John Coley
Douglas Medin
  Integrating Innovation: The Traditional Nahua Coffee-Orchard (Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico)
Pierre Beaucage
the Taller de Tradición Oral del CEPEC
  The Use of Plot Surveys for the Study of Ethnobotanical Knownledge: A Brunei Dusun Example
Jay H. Bernstein
Roy Ellen
Bantong bin Antaran
  Importance of Plants in the Ch'a Chaak Maya Ritual in the Peninsula of Yucatan
José Salvador Flores
Jesús Kantún Balam
  Short Communication: Vegetables, Roots, and Wisdom in Old China
Eugene N. Anderson
DEPARTMENTS
Ethnobiotica
Eugene S. Hunn
Author Profiles
Book Review: Hunting the Wren: Transformation of Bird to Symbol, by Elizabeth Atwood
E.N. Anderson
Recent Doctoral Dissertations of Interest to Ethnobiologists XIV
Terence E. Hays
Abstracts of Presentations at the 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Ethnobiology
News and Comments
Gary J. Martin
Book Review: The Animal World of the Pharaohs, by Patrick F. Houlihan
E.N. Anderson
Book Reviews:
Wild Men in the Looking Glass: The Mythic Origins of European Otherness, by Roger Bartra, translated by Carl Berrisford
and
THe Artificial Savage, by Roger Bartra, translated by Christopher Follett

E.N. Anderson
Book Review: Myths and Tales of White Mountain Apache, by Grenville Goodwin
Christine Makosky
Sean Michael Daley
Elaine Joyal
Book Review: Local Knowledge and Agricultural Decision Making in the Philippines: Class, Gender, and Resistence, by Virginia D. Nazarea-Sandoval
Christopher J. Healey
Compact Disk Reviews:
Secwepemc Kus (We are the Shuswap), by the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society
Plantas Medicinales de México: Usos y Remedios Tradicionales (Medicinal Plants of Mexico: Uses and Traditional Remedies), by the Centro de Tecnología, Electrónica e Infomática (CETEI)

John Brett
Books for Review
Sandra Peacock