Introducing Ethnobiology Letters

Art, fisheries and ethnobiology

BACKGROUND Nature is perceived in a variety of forms, and the perception of nature can also be expressed in different ways. Local art may represent the perception of nature by humans. It can embody perception, imagination and wisdom. Local art, in particular, reflects how people interact with nature. For example, when studying the representation of fish by different cultures, it is possible to ...

Ethnobiology in Four Phases

—I recognize four phases of ethnobiology: I, II, III, and IV. Ethnobiology I begins well before the formal naming of ethnobiology as a scholarly endeavor at the end of the 19th century. This initial phase has been widely characterized, albeit over simply, as essentially utilitarian. Ethnobiology II was elaborated in the cognitive/linguistic anthropology of the 1960s. Ethnobiology III integrates...

Welcome to Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Ethnobiology is a multidisciplinary field of study that draws on approaches and methods from both the social and biological sciences. Ethnobiology aims at investigating culturally based biological and environmental knowledge, cultural perception and cognition of the natural world, and associated behaviours and practices. Ethnomedicine is concerned with the cultural interpretations of health, di...

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Medical Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology in Latin America

1 Laboratory of Applied Ethnobotany, Department of Biology, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, 52171-900 Recife, PE, Brazil 2 Laboratory of Comparative Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurobiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 3Ethnozoology, Conservation and Biodiversity Research Group, Department of Biology, State University of Paraı́ba, 58429-500 João P...