Ethnobotanical Study of the Mexican Laurel in El Chico National Park, Mexico: A Quantitative Perspective by Daniela Ortega-Meza, María Teresa Pulido-Silva, Joari Costa de Arruda, and Carolina Joana da Silva

 Midwives and Mothers: The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation. By Sheila Cosminsky. 2016. University of Texas Press, Austin. 303 pp. by Amanda M. Thiel and Marsha B. Quinlan 

Kumeyaay Ethnobotany: Shared Heritage of the Californias. By Michael Wilken-Robertson. 2018. Sunbelt Publications, San Diego. 281 pp. by Nemer E. Narchi

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Bearly Guilty: Understanding Human–Andean Bear Conflict Regarding Crop LossesViviana Albarracín and Enzo Aliaga-Rossel Read More Read more about New Research Communications Article

Ethnobiology for the Future: Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity. Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan. 2016. Arizona University Press, Tucson. 309 pp.John Robert White Read More Read more about New Perspectives Article

Dilemmas of Representation in Contemporary Environmental Anthropology: Documenting Dynamite Fishing in Southeastern TanzaniaJustin Raycraft Read More Read more about New Perspectives Article

Using Lichenometry, Dendrochronology, and Historical Data to Establish the Relative Age of an Abandoned Cemetery in Northern ArkansasBrandy Garrett Kluthe, Margaret Guiccioni, Steven L. Stephenson Read More Read more about New Data, Methods & Taxonomies Article!

Take a look at our latest Research Communications articles:

Archaeology and Biogeography of the Western Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata) in the Puget Sound RegionJacob Fisher Second Impressions: Expanding the Range of Cereals from Early Neolithic Franchthi Cave, GreeceSusan E. Allen Read More Read more about Two New Articles Posted in EBL!

Check out our newest articles in the current issue: An Evaluation of the Contemporary Uses and Cultural Significance of Mammals in MexicoDulce María Ávila Nájera, Eduardo J Naranjo, Barbara Jane Tigar, Oscar Agustin Villarreal, Germán David Mendoza Ethnobotanical Study in Martinique of the Species Behind the Local Plant Name Bwa KakaElodie Drane, Marie Feliot-Rippeault, Juliette Smith-Ravin, Odile François-Haugrin Fonio (Digitaria exilis (Kippist) Stapf): A Socially Embedded Cereal for Food and Nutrition Security in SenegalBaye Magatte Diop, Mame Codou Gueye, Codjo Emile Agbangba, Ndiaga Cisse, Monique Deu, Omar Diack, Amadou Fofana, Ndjido Ardo Kane, Khadidiatou Ndoye Ndir, Ibrahima Ndoye, Ablaye Ngom, Christian Leclerc, Marie Piquet, Yves Vigouroux, Leila Zekraoui, Claire Billot, Adeline Barnaud Read More Read more about Three New Research Communication Articles Posted in EBL!

A Short Topical Review by Tanya M. Peres:Zooarchaeological Approaches to the Identification of Bone Fat Production in the Archaeological Record A Perspective piece by Katherine E. French:Plant-Based Solutions to Global Livestock Anthelmintic Resistance Read More Read more about Two New Articles Posted in EBL!

Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan. By Charlotte von Verschuer. Translated and Edited by Wendy Cobcroft. Routledge, New York. 356 pp.Reviewed by Eugene N. Anderson Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring. By Frederick H. Damon. 2017. Berghahn, New York. 375 pp.Reviewed by Patricia K. Townsend Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird: Explorations in the Folk Zoology of an Eastern Indonesian People. By Gregory Forth. 2016. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. 375 pp.Reviewed by Cory W. Whitney Read More Read more about Three New Review Articles Posted in EBL!

Patterns of Variation in the Seed Morphology of Iva annua var. macrocarpa, an Extinct North American DomesticateAndrew W. Weiland, Kristen J. Gremillion Read More Read more about New Research Communication Article Posted in EBL!

Using Ethnotaxonomy to Assess Traditional Knowledge and Language Vitality: A Case Study with the Vaie People of Sarawak, MalaysiaSyafitri Hidayati, Bibi Aminah Abdul Ghani, Beena Giridharan, Mohd Zafri Hassan, Merlin Franco Francis Ethno-Ornithology of the Mushere of Nigeria: Children's Knowledge and Perceptions of BirdsGrace Alheri-Bulus Pam, David Zeitlyn, Andrew Gosler What is Your “Phytolith Load”? An Examination of the Potential for Cross-Contamination During Phytolith ExtractionAbigail Francesca Buffington, Andrew Weiland, Julia Arnold, Drew Arbogast Read More Read more about Three New Research Communication Articles Posted in EBL!

Two new Research Communication articles posted in EBL!

Traditional Knowledge as a Basis for the Development of a Sustainable Resource Management Program: A Case Study in a Rural Village in Morelos, Mexico
Rubén Hernández-Tapia, Teresa Valverde, Abel Aranda, Concepción Martínez-Peralta, Diana Platas-Neri

Use of Cetaceans as Bait in Southern Bahia, Brazil, by Expert Fishermen that Market Shark Fins: A Lucrative Trade and Two Threatened Zoological Groups
Marcio Luiz Vargas Barbosa-Filho, Rebeca Mascarenhas Fonseca Barreto, Salvatore Siciliano, Cecilia Inés Seminara, Eraldo Medeiros Costa-Neto

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Two new articles posted in EBL! One by Andrew Gillreath-Brown and the other by Jonathan DeVore. http://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/issue/view/25/showToc Read More Read more about Two New Articles Posted in EBL!

Beyond Depression? A Review of the Optimal Foraging Theory Literature in Zooarchaeology and Archaeobotany by Emily Lena Jones and David A. Hurley. Read More Read more about New Research Communication published in Ethnobiology Letters!

Biocultural Design: Harvesting Manomin with Wabaseemoong Independent Nations by Valeria Kuzivanova and Iain J. Davidson-Hunt

 Gender Bias Affects Forests Worldwide by Marlène Elias, Susan S Hummel, Bimbika S Basnett, and Carol J.P. Colfer Read More Read more about Ethnobiology Letters publishes new articles in Vol. 8, Issue 1

Ethnobiology Letters wraps up its regular annual issue with an editorial that reflects on some challenges to biodiversity and cultural diversity during the last year, as well as some areas of bright promise in 2017.

Plurality in Ethnobiology: A Look Towards 2017 by James R. Welch, John M. Marston, Elizabeth A. Olson Read More Read more about Editorial looks towards plurality and diversity in ethnobiology in 2017

Ethnobiology Letters has just published a special issue on “Memoirs and Memory," guest edited by John Richard Stepp. This issue seeks includes six original contributions accompanied by an editorial by Stepp. The articles are memoirs in the broadest sense, including reflections and analyses of unpublished data.

Table of Contents for Vol. 7, Issue 2: Special Issue on Memoirs and Memory

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Searching for Symbolic Value of Cattle: Tropical Livestock Units, Market Price, and Cultural Value of Maasai Livestock by Robert J. Quinlan, Isaya Rumas, Godfrey Naiskye, Marsha Quinlan, Jonathan Yoder Read More Read more about New Research Communication published in Ethnobiology Letters!

1) Preliminary Starch Grain Evidence of Ancient Stone Tool Use at the Early Archaic (9,000 B.P.) Site of Sandy Hill, Mashantucket, Connecticut by Thomas C. Hart, Timothy H. Ives (2013)

2) Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fermentation Effects on Pollen: Archaeological Implications by Crystal A. Dozier (2016)

3) Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings by Alexandra G. Ponette-González, Jarrett E. Byrnes (2011)

4) An Interview with Ethnobiologist Dr. Elizabeth Widjaja by Cynthia Fowler, Amy Pittsenbarger (2011)

5) Folk Knowledge of an Individual Plant Specimen: The Case of the Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis L.) in Virestad Parish, Småland, Sweden by Ingvar Svanberg (2012)

6) Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters: Integrating Archaeology and Ecology of the Northeast Pacific by Ray Pierotti (2013)

7) Ethnobiology 5: Interdisciplinarity in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change by Steve Wolverton (2013)

8) Birdlime in Western Myanmar: Preparation, Use, and Conservation Implications for an Endemic Bird by Steven G. Platt, Kalyar Platt, Thet Zaw Naing, Hong Meng, Win Ko Ko, Naing Lin, Robert J. Tizzard, Khin Myo Myo, Me Me Soe, Thomas R. Rainwater (2012)

9) Tusk or Bone? An Example of Ivory Substitute in the Wildlife Trade by Margaret E. Sims, Barry W. Baker, Robert M. Hoesch (2011)

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PERSPECTIVE

Birds of the Mongol Empire by Eugene N. Anderson

REVIEW

Ethnobotany and Biocultural Diversities in the Balkans. Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Development and Reconciliation. Edited by Andrea Pieroni and Cassandra L. Quave. 2014. Springer, New York. 255 pp. Reviewed by Katherine E. French

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Calling for greater attention to global health issues in the field of ethnobiology, Quinlan and Quinlan review the innovative field of One Health. Brien A. Meilleur reviews Le Bestiaire Innu, Les Quadrupèdes by Daniel Clément, an ambitious compilation of Innu knowledge about 20 quadrupeds. Steve Wolverton reviews The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell, a personal account of the author’s ecological observations of one square-meter in the southern Appalachian forest over the course of a single year.

SHORT TOPICAL REVIEW (FORMERLY “MINI-REVIEW”)

Ethnobiology in One Health by Marsha B. Quinlan, Robert J. Quinlan

REVIEWS

Le Bestiaire Innu, Les Quadrupèdes. By Daniel Clément. 2012. Presses de l’Université Laval, Quebèc City. 548 pp. Reviewed by Brien Meilleur

The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature. By David George Haskell. 2013. Penguin Books, New York. 288 pp. Reviewed by Steve Wolverton

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We are pleased to announce that Ethnobiology Letters now publishes articles in both PDF and HTML formats to facilitate online reading! Our traditional PDFs are still available for printing and downloading to your digital library. The new HTML formatting, available for all 2016 articles, allows quick full-text viewing without the need to download a separate file.

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Responding to interest by potential authors, EBL now invites reflections, obituaries, interviews, and other short opinion pieces for publication in our recently expanded section Interviews & Reflections. This new forum is intended to provide space for ethnobiological insights and thoughts with all the benefits and longevity of indexed open access academic publishing. Submissions to this section will be evaluated by our editors on the basis of content and interest. Interviews & Reflections manuscripts are limited to 3500 words, 10 cited references, two figures, and one video. For more specific guidelines, please see: http://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies. Read More Read more about Ethnobiology Letters invites reflections, memorials, interviews, and other short opinion pieces

Check out these original research papers and reviews in our new issue. EBL publishes articles on a rolling bases throughout the year, so check back soon to see more!

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Ethnobotany of Breadfruit in Vanuatu: Review and Prospects by Jean-Pierre Labouisse

Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fermentation Effects on Pollen: Archaeological Implications by Crystal A. Dozier

DATA, METHODS & TAXONOMIES

Longitudinal Taphonomic Studies of Mammal Carcasses from the Rio Salado Valley, Mendoza, Argentina by Clara Otaola and Alfonsina Tripaldi

Eastern Sumbanese Bird Classification and Nomenclature: Additions and Revisions by Gregory Forth

REVIEWS

The Relative Native: Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds. By Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Reviewed by Eugene N. Anderson

Una Isĩ Kayawa: Livro de Cura do Povo Huni Kuĩ do Rio Jordão. Edited by Agostinho Manduca M. Ĩka Muru and Alexandre Quinet. Reviewed by Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr.

Around the World in 80 Plants: An Edible Perennial Vegetable Adventure in Temperate Climates. By Stephen Barstow. Reviewed by Ada Grabowska-Zhang

The Ecology of Pastoralism. Edited by P. Nick Kardulias. Reviewed by Kārlis Rokpelnis

Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America. Vols. 1 & 2. Reviewed by Vanessa Mardones

Rivers, Fish, and the People: Tradition, Science, and Historical Ecology of Fisheries in the American West. Edited by Pei-Lin Yu. Reviewed by Jonathan Dombrosky

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Ethnobiology Letters (EBL) is pleased to announce that it has moved to a new licensing model based on Creative Commons licenses that more fully reflects the journal’s open access vision. The latest generation of Creative Commons licenses help journals like EBL to fully embrace open access while allowing authors to retain their own copyrights, ensuring proper recognition of our journal’s and Society’s contribution, and discouraging third parties from using our publications for commercial gain. We intend to make this change starting with our first 2016 issue. Additionally, we have also applied this license to all previously published articles. Click "more" for further details about how this affects the rights of past and future authors. Read More Read more about EBL Adopts Creative Commons License

Ethnobiology Letters remains free for readers and authors through generous support from the Society of Ethnobiology and its membership. The Society of Ethnobiology recently set up a special fund to support the organization’s online publishing efforts, including Ethnobiology Letters and Contributions in Ethnobiology. In order to help keep EBL free of charge and help make it sustainable in the long term, please consider making a donation now! Read More Read more about Support Ethnobiology Letters with a donation to the Society of Ethnobiology Online Publications Fund

Ethnobiology Letters has just updated its author guidelines in order to assist authors in preparing manuscripts. Authors' diligence in closely following these guidelines is part of what makes our free, open-access publishing possible. Read More Read more about Updated Author Guidelines

Gene Anderson has long been a tremendous mind in ethnobiology and a great influence in the Society of Ethnobiology and its publications. Ethnobiology Letters  is delighted to honor his mentorship and intellectual guidance with a new Reviews feature called "Perspectives from Gene Anderson's Bookshelf." It will showcase Gene's steady, enlightening stream of book reviews in ethnobiology, bringing to the rest of us his perspicacious, deeply informed, and fun-to-read take on contemporary scholarship. He shows us how to be good readers, generous critics, and long-view scholars.

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Did you know Brazil has a new law regulating research, commercialization, and benefit sharing involving the country's genetic biodiversity and associated traditional knowledge? Find about it in this new editorial by James R. Welch! Read More Read more about Brazil's new Biodiversity Law discussed in an Ethnobiology Letters editorial

This first-ever special issue of Ethnobiology Letters highlights a series of new technological approaches in the sub-discipline of zooarchaeology that expands the capacity for addressing outstanding research questions and charts new courses for interpretation beyond conventional analyses.

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Diana Rocío Carvajal Contreras has just published a review of Ancient Plants and People: Contemporary Trends in Archaeobotany, edited by Marco Madella, Carla Lancelotti, and Manon Savard. Read More Read more about Review of "Ancient Plants and People" just published

Thomson Reuters' Web of Science has just included Ethnobiology Letters via the Emerging Sources Citation Index. This important advance will help improve access to EBL articles and grow the journal’s exposure. In addition to Web of Science, Ethnobiology Letters is also indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. Read More Read more about Ethnobiology Letters is now in Web of Science!

“Buying a Pig in a Poke”: The Problem of Elasmobranch Meat Consumption in Southern Brazil by Hugo Bornatowski, Raul Rennó Braga, Carolina Kalinowski, Jean Ricardo Simões Vitule Read More Read more about Just published!

Examining Fuel Use in Antiquity: Archaeobotanical and Anthracological Approaches in Southwest Asia by Alexia Smith, Krista Dotzel, Joyce Fountain, Lucas Proctor, and Madelynn von Baeyer Read More Read more about New Mini-Review in Ethnobiology Letters

Cecil H. Brown has just published a short perspective essay on Paleobiolinguistics of New World Crops and the Otomanguean Language Family!  Read More Read more about Hot off the press

Trail Trees: Living Artifacts (Vivifacts) of Eastern North America by Nicholas C. Kawa, Bradley Painter, and Cailín E. Murray Read More Read more about Perspective essay

The Importance of Insects in Australian Aboriginal Society: A Dictionary Survey by Aung Si and Myfany Turpin Read More Read more about Just published!

Threatened Biodiversity and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Associated beliefs, Customs and Uses of Herpetofauna among the `Are`Are on Malaita Island, Solomon Islands by Edgar Maeniuta Pollard, Randy Thaman, Gilianne Brodie, Clare Morrison Reconstructing Meat Consumption through Biomarker Analyses of Paleofeces by Jenna M. Battillo, Abigail E. Fisher Review of Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices (edited by Eveline Dürr and Rivke Jaffe, 2010) by Janelle Marie Baker. Review of New Lives for Ancient and Extinct Crops (edited by Paul E. Minnis, 2014) by Thomas C. Hart. Traditional Uses of Plants in the Tolfa–Cerite–Manziate Area (Central Italy) by Paolo Maria Guarrera, Valentina Savo, Giulia Caneva. Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis by Andrew Barker, Jonathan Dombrosky, Dale Chaput, Barney Venbles, Steve Wolverton, Stanley M. Stevens. Read More Read more about Check out these new publications from Ethnobiology Letters!