Vol 9 No 2 (2018) | Ethnobiology Letters

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Ethnobiology Letters Cover, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2018

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).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.9.2.2018

Published: 2018-04-09

Editorials

Publishing in Ethnobiology Letters in 2018

John M. Marston, Andrew Flachs, Elizabeth Anne Olson

283-288
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Perspectives

Plant-Based Solutions to Global Livestock Anthelmintic Resistance

Katherine E. French

110-123
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The Current Status of Ethnobiology in Ecuador

Tania Ivanova Gonzalez-Rivadeneira, Radamés Villagómez-Resendiz, Alessio Barili

206-213
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Does Cognition Still Matter in Ethnobiology?

David Ludwig

269-275
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Dilemmas of Representation in Contemporary Environmental Anthropology: Documenting Dynamite Fishing in Southeastern Tanzania

Justin Raycraft

289-298
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World Views and the Concept of “Traditional”

Raymond Pierotti

299-304
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Short Topical Reviews

Zooarchaeological Approaches to the Identification of Bone Fat Production in the Archaeological Record

Tanya M. Peres

107-109
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Traditional Techniques for the Management of Cactaceae in the Americas: The Relationship between Use and Conservation

Kamila Marques Pedrosa, Camila Marques Lucena, Reinaldo Farias Paiva Lucena, Sérgio de Faria Lopes

276-282
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Research Communications

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

1–11
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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

12–18
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The Archaeobotany and Ethnobotany of Portuguese or White Crowberry (Corema album)

Ines Lopez-Doriga

19-32
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Using Ethnotaxonomy to Assess Traditional Knowledge and Language Vitality: A Case Study with the Vaie People of Sarawak, Malaysia

Syafitri Hidayati, Bibi Aminah Abdul Ghani, Beena Giridharan, Mohd Zafri Hassan, F. Merlin Franco

33-47
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Ethno-Ornithology of the Mushere of Nigeria: Children's Knowledge and Perceptions of Birds

Grace Alheri-Bulus Pam, David Zeitlyn, Andrew Gosler

48-64
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What is Your “Phytolith Load”? An Examination of the Potential for Cross-Contamination During Phytolith Extraction

Abigail Francesca Buffington, Andrew Weiland, Julia Arnold, Drew Arbogast

65-74
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Patterns of Variation in the Seed Morphology of Iva annua var. macrocarpa, an Extinct North American Domesticate

Andrew W. Weiland, Kristen J. Gremillion

75-89
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Ethnobotany and Agrobiodiversity: Valuation of Plants in the Homegardens of Southwestern Uganda

Cory W. Whitney, Joseph Bahati, Jens Gebauer

90-100
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An Evaluation of the Contemporary Uses and Cultural Significance of Mammals in Mexico

Dulce María Ávila Nájera, Eduardo J Naranjo, Barbara Jane Tigar, Oscar Agustin Villarreal, Germán David Mendoza

124-135
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Ethnobotanical Study in Martinique of the Species Behind the Local Plant Name Bwa Kaka

Elodie Drane, Marie Feliot-Rippeault, Juliette Smith-Ravin, Odile François-Haugrin

136-149
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Fonio (Digitaria exilis (Kippist) Stapf): A Socially Embedded Cereal for Food and Nutrition Security in Senegal

Baye 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

150-165
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Dynamism in Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Persistence and Change in the Use of Totora (Schoenoplectus californicus) for Subsistence in Huanchaco, Peru

Rossana Paredes, Allison L. Hopkins

169-179
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Archaeology and Biogeography of the Western Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata) in the Puget Sound Region

Jacob Fisher

180-188
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Second Impressions: Expanding the Range of Cereals from Early Neolithic Franchthi Cave, Greece

Susan E. Allen

189-196
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Skookum Root: Ethnobotany of Hellebore (Veratrum viride) in Northwest British Columbia

Chelsey Geralda Armstrong

197-205
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Nutritional Properties of Native Plants and Traditional Foods from the Central United States

Kelly Kindscher, Leanne Martin, Steve Corbett, David Lafond

214-227
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Firearms Effects on Tsimane’ Hunting and Traditional Knowledge in Bolivian Amazonia

Armando Medinaceli, Robert J. Quinlan

230-242
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Bumblebee Honey in the Nordic Countries

Ingvar Svanberg, Åsa Berggren

312-318
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Bearly Guilty: Understanding Human–Andean Bear Conflict Regarding Crop Losses

Viviana Albarracín, Enzo Aliaga-Rossel

323-332
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Data, Methods & Taxonomies

Using Lichenometry, Dendrochronology, and Historical Data to Establish the Relative Age of an Abandoned Cemetery in Northern Arkansas

Brandy Garrett Kluthe, Margaret Guiccioni, Steven L. Stephenson

253-262
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Reviews: Perspectives from Gene Anderson’s Bookshelf

Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan. By Charlotte von Verschuer. Translated and Edited by Wendy Cobcroft. Routledge, New York. 356 pp.

Eugene N. Anderson

105-106
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Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws. By Marianne Ignace and Ronald E. Ignace. Foreword by Bonnie Leonard. 2017. McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal and Kingston, Canada. 588 pp.

Eugene N. Anderson

166-168
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Histoire et Voyages des Plantes Cultivèes à Madagascar avant le XVIe Siècle. By Philippe Beaujard. 2017. Karthala, Paris. 415 pp.

Eugene N. Anderson

245-246
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The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved. By Raymond Pierotti and Brandy R. Fogg. 2017. Yale University Press, New Haven. 326 pp.

Eugene N. Anderson

247-249
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Reviews

Trees, Knots, and Outriggers: Environmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring. By Frederick H. Damon. 2017. Berghahn, New York. 375 pp.

Patricia K. Townsend

101-102
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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.

Cory W. Whitney

103-104
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Vanilla Landscapes: Meaning, Memory, and the Cultivation of Place in Madagascar. By Sarah R. Osterhoudt. 2017. NYBG Press, Bronx, NY. 180 pp.

Terese Gagnon

228-229
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Tangatatau Rockshelter: The Evolution of an Eastern Polynesian Socio-Ecosystem. Edited by Patrick Vinton Kirch. 2017. UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, Los Angeles. 326 pp.

Maureece J. Levin

243-244
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Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas. By Stephen C. Jett. 2017. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 508 pp.

Diana Rocío Carvajal Contreras

250-252
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Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion. By John M. Marston. 2017. University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, Philadelphia. 224 pp.

Erica Rowan

263-265
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Evolutionary Ethnobiology. Edited by Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Patricia Muniz de Medeiros, and Alejandro Casas. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham. 197 pp.

Raymond Pierotti

266-268
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Ethnobiology for the Future: Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity. Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan. 2016. Arizona University Press, Tucson. 309 pp.

John Robert White

305-306
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Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia. By Cynthia T. Fowler. 2016. Lexington Books, Lanham. 137 pp.

F. Merlin Franco

307-308
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Enciclopédia dos Alimentos Yanomami (Sanöma): Cogumelos. Edited by R. M. Apiamö, J. Autuori, N. K. Ishikawa, M. S. Martins, N. Menolli Jr., C. Sanuma, L. R. Sanuma, M. Sanuma, O. I. Sanuma, & K. Tokimoto. 2016. Instituto Socioambiental, São Paulo. 108 pp.

Carlos E. A. Coimbra, James R. Welch

309-311
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The Wonder of Birds: What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future. By Jim Robbins. 2017. Spiegel and Grau, Penguin Random House, New York. 352 pp.

Nicole Sault

319-320
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Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa. By Kathryn M. de Luna. 2016. Yale University Press, New Haven. 332 pp.

Cory W. Whitney

321-322
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