Co-editors: Maria Bruno, Molly Carney, Andrew Flachs, and Janelle Baker
Reviews Editor: Sarah Walshaw
Editorial Assistants: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown, Marc Morris, and Andrea Kay

Cover image: Graffiti of a turtle, frog, and toad at Graffiti Alley in Florence, Alabama. Photographed by Andrew Gillreath-Brown on January 4, 2024.

Special Issue on Toward a Diverse Conservations Inventory: Ethnobiologists, Communities, and Collaboration

This Ethnobiology Letters special issue inventories what we call “diverse conservations” (inspired by J.K. Gibson-Graham). It was developed from a panel at the Anthropology and Conservation conference co-hosted by the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Society of Ethnobiology in October 2021. We open with a research perspective on “doing conservation differently,” and then offer six case studies, all of which challenge mainstream biodiversity conservation’s exclusionary and “fortress”-like preservation measures. The concluding perspective explores the broader social and epistemological implications of reconfiguring biodiversity conservation. Collectively, we hope the special issue can open new spaces for ethical intervention and inspire collaborative conservation grounded in indigenous and local knowledge.

Co-editors: Maria Bruno, Molly Carney, Andrew Flachs, and Janelle Baker
Reviews Editor: Cory Whitney
Editorial Assistants: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown, Marc Morris, and William J. Damitio

Cover image: Undergraduate students from the United States studying conservation by walking and learning with Costa Rican teachers. Photograph by Daniela Shebitz in Summer 2015.

Co-editors: Maria Bruno, Molly Carney, Andrew Flachs, and Janelle Baker
Reviews Editor: Cory Whitney
Editorial Assistants: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown, Marc Morris, and William J. Damitio

Cover image: Barley (Hordeum vulgare) from the archaeological site of Harappa, part of the Indus Valley Civilization, in modern day Pakistan. Photographed by Andrew Gillreath-Brown on March 4, 2018.

Co-editors: Maria Bruno, Andrew Flachs, and Janelle Baker
Reviews Editor: Cory Whitney
Editorial Assistants: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown, Marc Morris, Jacklyn Rumberger, and William J. Damitio

Cover image: Common sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) overlooking the Palouse River at Palouse Falls State Park in Washington, USA, which is located on the ceded lands of the Yakama, Spokane, and Palouse. We acknowledge their presence here since time immemorial and recognize their continuing connection to the land, to the water, and to their ancestors. Photographed by Andrew Gillreath-Brown on August 12, 2019.

Co-editors: Maria Bruno, Andrew Flachs, John M. Marston, Elizabeth A. Olson, and Janelle Baker
Reviews Editor: Felice S. Wyndham
Editorial Assistants: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown, Marc Morris, and Jacklyn Rumberger

Cover image: "The Songbird Pipe Organ" by Phlegm. Mural in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, painted for the Dunedin Urban Art Festival 2014. Photographed by John M. Marston on January 1, 2020.

Special Issue: Avian Voices

Listening to Bird Wisdom. People tell bird stories or sing and dance in ceremonies that present key values with ecological knowledge for addressing conflict and crises. In this Ethnobiology Letters special issue, six articles examine metaphors, naming protocols, and taxonomy, as well as women’s roles in promoting community-based conservation and the meaning of avian silences for habitat loss, extinction, and climate change. They draw on historical documents, oral tradition, and contemporary narratives from Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. The focus ranges from ravens and jays to storks and condors, as well as connections with wolves and turtles, showing how reciprocity is central to restoring relationships with the land and healing.

Guest Editors: Nicole Sault and Elizabeth A. Olson
Co-editors: Maria Bruno, Andrew Flachs, and John M. Marston
Review Editor: Felice S. Wyndham
Editorial Assistants: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown and Emily Johnson

Cover Image: Women's group working to protect the Adjutant Stork in Assam, India. Photographed by Anupam Nath in Dadara, Kamrup, Assam, India. 

 

Co-editors: Maria Bruno, Andrew Flachs, John M. Marston, and Elizabeth A. Olson
Reviews Editor: Felice S. Wyndham
Editorial Assistants: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown and Emily S. Johnson 

Cover image: Campesino and his dog survey the landscape of Tecopatlán in Jalisco, Mexico, where they farm and raise cattle at the fringes of the Sierra of Manantlán Biosphere Reserve. Photo by Adrian Gutiérrez Alonso.

Co-editors: Andrew Flachs, John M. Marston, and Elizabeth A. Olson
Reviews Editor: Felice S. Wyndham
Editorial Assistants: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown and Emily S. Johnson 

Cover image: Hopi maize (Zea mays; including blue and white varieties) as part of the Pueblo Farming Project, a long-term collaboration between Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado and the Hopi tribe. A prehistoric checkdam is also visible along with sagebrush (Artemisia sp.), juniper (Juniperus sp.), and pinyon (Pinus sp.) in the background. Photo by Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown.

Co-editors: Andrew Flachs, John M. Marston, and Elizabeth A. Olson
Review Editor: Felice S. Wyndham
Editorial Assistants: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown and Emily Johnson

Cover image: Mycology excursion and mushroom picking at the 40th Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnobiology in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Participants foraged for fungi at Parc des Chutes de Sainte-Ursule. Photo by Liz Olson (2017).

Special Issue: Ethics in Ethnobiology

Ethics is a core interest of practicing ethnobiologists and a function of healthy relationships between individuals, cultures, researchers, and the foci of study. Changing times and cultural identities require clear reflections among scientists and responsive interactions with the individuals and cultures who work with ethnobiologists. This Ethnobiology Letters special issue on Ethics in Ethnobiology explores the diverse ways in which intentional conversations about ethics guide us as we encounter unforeseen circumstances and witness changing values in ourselves as well as our collaborators. By integrating the ethics of diverse interlocutors into their own research endeavors, the authors illustrate how ethnobiologists listen deeply to the values of their research collaborators.

Guest Editors: Cynthia T. Fowler and Scott M. Herron
Co-editors: Andrew Flachs, John M. Marston, Elizabeth A. Olson, and James R. Welch
Review Editor: Felice S. Wyndham
Production Editor: Jonathan Dombrosky
Editorial Assistants: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown and Emily Johnson

Cover Image: Drawing on gardening magazines, ecology texts, and heirloom seed catalogues, this collage reflects on how discourse in the United States about native and non-native plants embodies violent, anti-immigrant, and racist rhetoric. Collage by Sophie Duncan, 2017.

Co-editors: John M. Marston, Elizabeth A. Olson, and James R. Welch
Review Editor: Felice S. Wyndham
Production Editor: Jonathan Dombrosky
Editorial Assistant: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown

Cover image: Rock painting at Anbangbang Shelter, Kakadu National Park, Australia. The traditional owners of this location, who are no longer alive, were the Warramal clan. Photo by James R. Welch, 2016.

Special Issue: Memoirs and Memory

The memoir, as an inherently personal narrative, is sometimes seen at odds with scholarly writing that demands an objective and detached approach. However, the building block of memoirs is the same as what leads to scientific progress: detailed observations. This special issue of Ethnobiology Letters on Memoirs and Memory seeks to cherish the memoir, whenever written, and is based on a belief that the genre can make important contributions to the field of ethnobiology. What follows here is memoir in the broadest sense, both reflection and a return to the past in the form of unpublished data.

Guest Editor: John Richard Stepp
Co-editors: John M. Marston, Elizabeth A. Olson, and James R. Welch
Review Editor: Felice S. Wyndham
Production Editor: Jonathan Dombrosky
Editorial Assistant: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown

Cover image: Collage by Felice Wyndham

Co-editors: John M. Marston, Elizabeth A. Olson, and James R. Welch
Review Editor: Felice S. Wyndham
Production Editor: Jonathan Dombrosky
Editorial Assistant: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown

Cover image: Therianthropic and chimeric images are gaining in popularity again, as people re-imagine the connections, hybridizations, tresspassings and cross purposes of animal-human-plant relationships in the 21st century. Mural detail by artist/illustrator/street artist Tamara Alves, photographed in Lisbon, Portugal (2015) by Felice Wyndham.

Special Issue: Digital Zooarchaeology

Zooarchaeologists are increasingly employing novel digital technologies in their research into the archaeological history of the human use of animals. This special issue of Ethnobiology Letters highlights a series of new technological approaches that expand the capacity for addressing outstanding research questions and chart new courses for interpretation beyond conventional analyses. This collection of articles build upon papers presented during a symposium at the International Council of Archaeozoology Conference held in San Rafael, Mendoza Province, Argentina in September 2014.

Guest Editors: Iain McKechnie, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Steve Wolverton
Co-editors: John M. Marston and James R. Welch
Book Review Editor: Felice S. Wyndham
Production Editor: Jonathan Dombrosky
Editorial Assistant: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown

Cover Image: Participants in the Central and Western Anatolia Neolithic Working Group, who collaborated to integrate and analyze multiple faunal datasets from archaeological sites in Turkey (see Kansa, this issue)

Co-editors:  John M. Marston, James R. Welch, and Steve Wolverton
Book Review Editor: Felice S. Wyndham
Production Editor: Jonathan Dombrosky
Editorial Assistant: Andrew D. Gillreath-Brown

Cover image: A summer puesto in the Andes of western Argentina. Photo by Steve Wolverton.

Co-editors:  Cynthia T. Fowler, James R. Welch, and Steve Wolverton
Editorial Assistant: Jonathan Dombrosky

Cover image: Looking past the compass on the summit of Devil's Courthouse in the Nantahala National Forest, the viewshed includes North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. At 5,720 feet asl, Devil's Courthouse provides habitat for rare plant species as well as diverse animals and birds. Tsul 'Kalu, the Cherokee sloping giant and Lord of the Game, dwells in the cave at Devil's Courthouse. Photo by Cynthia T. Fowler.

Co-editors:  Cynthia T. Fowler, James R. Welch, and Steve Wolverton
Editorial Assistants: Jonathan Dombrosky, Amy Hoffman, and Amy Pittsenbarger

Cover image: Reconstructed chronological and geographic distributions of chili pepper terms for Mesoamerica. Figure by Cecil H. Brown, Charles R. Clement, Patience Epps, Eike Luedeling, and Søren Wichmann.

Co-editors:  David Cozzo, Cynthia T. Fowler, James R. Welch, and Steve Wolverton
Editorial Assistants: Jonathan Dombrosky and Amy Pittsenbarger

Cover image: Duje (Vaccinium membranaceum), an important food plant. Photo by Leona R. Shaw and Jane P. Young.

Co-editors:  David Cozzo, Cynthia T. Fowler, James R. Welch, and Steve Wolverton
Editorial Assistants: Jonathan Dombrosky and Amy Pittsenbarger

Cover image: A grandfather and his granddaughter picking bakeapples on one of many islands near Charlottetown, Labrador. Photo by Amanda L. Karst and Nancy J. Turner.

Co-editors:  David Cozzo, Cynthia T. Fowler, and Steve Wolverton

Cover image: Dorsal, ventral and lateral views of Akodon oenos cranium. Photo by Fernando Julián Fernández.