ANTH 591 - Traditional Knowledge of Plants, Animals, and Land in Contemporary Global Context

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Digital Reading Room for ANTH 591

Journal of Ethnobiology

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List of References for Ethnobiology available in the Athabasca University Library as of 11/08/01

Reading List

Alcorn, Janis B. 1984. Huastec Mayan Ethnobotany. Austin : University of Texas Press. [Check Book Status]

Anderson, Eugene. 1996. Ecologies of the Heart, Emotion, Belief and the Environment. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Check Book Status]

Atran, Scott. 1990. Cognitive Foundations of Natural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Check Book Status]

Basso, Keith H. 1996. Wisdom Sits in Places,Landscape and Language among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. [Check Book Status]

Balick, Michael J and Paul Alan Cox. 1996. Plants, People and Culture, the Science of Ethnobotany. New York: Scientific American Library, a Division of HPLP. [Check Book Status]

Brightman, Robert. 1993. Grateful Prey, Rock-Cree Human-Animal Relationships. University of Califorinia Press, Berkeley. [Check Book Status]

Boyd, Robert (ed.) 1999. Indians, Fire and the Land in the Pacific Northwest. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press. [Check Book Status]

Brokensha, David, D. M. Warren, and Oswald Werner.(eds.) 1980. Indigenous knowledge systems and development. Washington, D.C. : University Press of America. [Check Book Status]

Brush, Stephen B. and Doreen Stabinsky, Eds. 1996. Valuing Local Knowledge, Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights. Island Press, Washington D.C. and Covelo, CA. [Check Book Status]

Bastien, Joseph William. 1987. Healers of the Andes : Kallawaya Herbalists and their Medicinal Plants. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press. [Check Book Status]

Cruikshank, J. 1998. The Social Life of Stories, Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory. Vancouver: UBC Press. [Check Book Status]

Curtin, L. S. M. 1984. By the Prophet of the Earth :Ethnobotany of the Pima. Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press. [Check Book Status]

Densmore, Frances. 1974. Uses of plants by the Chippewa Indians How Indians use wild plants for food, medicine, and crafts. New York : Dover. [Reprint of Uses of plants by the Chippewa Indians, from the 44th annual report (1926/27) of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology.] [Check Book Status]

Densmore, Frances. 1987. Uses of plants by the Chippewa Indians Indian use of wild plants for crafts, food, medicine, and charms. Ohsweken, Ont. : Iroqrafts. [newer reprint of Uses of plants by the Chippewa Indians, from the 44th annual report (1926/27) of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology.] [Check Book Status]

Ebeling, Walter, 1986. Handbook of Indian foods and Fibers of Arid America. Berkeley : University of California Press. [Check Book Status]

Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte. 1979. Use of plants for the past 500 years. Aurora, Ont. : Breezy Creeks Press. [Check Book Status]

Ellen, Roy and Katsuyoshi Fukiu. 1996. Redefining nature :Ecology,Culture, and Domestication Oxford, UK ; Washington, D.C. : Berg. [Check Book Status]

Etkin, Nina L. (editor). 1994. Eating on the Wild Side, the Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using Non-cultigens. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. [Check Book Status]

Etkin Nina L. 1986. Plants in Indigenous Medicine and Diet : Biobehavioral Approaches. Bedford Hills, N.Y. : Redgrave Pub. Co. [Check Book Status]

Felger, Richard Stephen. 1985. People of the Desert and Sea : Ethnobotany of the Seri Indians. Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press. [Check Book Status]

Freese, Curtis H. 1997. Harvesting Wild Species, Implications for Biodiversity Conservation. Baltimore: Johns-Hopkins University Press. [Check Book Status]

Grenier, Louise. 1998. Working with Indigenous Knowledge. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre. [Check Book Status]

Gunther, E. 1973. Ethnobotany of Western Washington, the Knowledge and Use of Indigenous Plants by Native Americans. Revised Edition. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. [Check Book Status]

Hamblin, Nancy L. 1984. Animal use by the Cozumel Maya. Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press. [Check Book Status]

Heiser, Charles Bixler, 1985. Of Plants and People. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press.[Check Book Status]

Heiser, Charles Bixler, 1990. Seed to civilization : the story of food. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1990. [Check Book Status]

Howard, Patricia L. (Ed.) 2003. Women and Plants, Gender Relations in Biodiversity Management and Conservation. London and New York: Zed Books [Check Book Status]

Hunn, Eugene with James Selam. 1990. Nch’i-Wána “The Big River” Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. [Check Book Status]

Johnston, A. 1987. Plants and the Blackfoot. Lethbridge, Alta. : Lethbridge Historical Society. [Check Book Status]

Kawagley, Oscar A. 1995. A Yupiaq Worldview, a Pathway to Ecology and Spirit. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland. [Check Book Status]

Kindscher, Kelly. 1987. Edible wild plants of the prairie : an ethnobotanical guide Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, c1987.[Check Book Status]

Kuhnlein, Harriet V. and Nancy J. Turner. 1991. Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples, Nutrition, Botany and Use. Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology V. 8. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Philadelphia, Reading, Paris, Montreaux, Tokyo and Melbourne. [Check Book Status]

Leighton, Anna L. 1985. Wild plant use by the Woods Cree (Nihtihawak) of east-central Saskatchewan. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada. [Check Book Status]

Marles, R.J., C. Clavelle, L. Montgeleone, N. Tays and D. Burns. 2000. Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada's Northwest Boreal Forest. Vancouver: UBC Press. [Check Book Status]

Minnis, Paul E. 2000. Ethnobotany : A Reader. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. [Check Book Status]

Moore, Pat and Angela Wheelock, eds. 1989. Wolverine myths and visions : Dene traditions from northern Alberta. Edmonton : University of Alberta Press. [Check Book Status]

Moerman, Daniel E. 1998. Native American Ethnobotany. Portland: Timber Press. [Check Book Status]

Nabhan, Gary Paul. 1985. Gathering the desert . Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press. [Check Book Status]

Nelson, Richard K. 1983. Make Prayers to the Raven : a Koyukon view of the Northern Forest. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. [Check Book Status]

Nelson, Richard K. 1986. Hunters of the northern forest : designs for survival among the Alaskan Kutchin. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. [Check Book Status]

Pinkerton, Evelyn. 1989 Cooperative Management of Local Fisheries, New Directions for Improved Management and Community Development, University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver. [Check Book Status]

Plotkin, Mark. 1993 Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice, an Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England. [Check Book Status]

Posey, Darrell A. and Graham Dutfield. 1996. Beyond Intellectual Property, Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre. [Check Book Status]

Rea, Amadeo M. 1997. At the Desert’s Green Edge, an Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. [Check Book Status]

Samuel, Cheryl. 1982. The Chilkat Dancing Blanket. Seattle: Pacific Search Press. ISBN 0-914718-69-X (hardbound). [Check Book Status]

Samuel, Cheryl. 1987. The Raven's Tail. Vancouver: University of British columbia Press. [Check Book Status]

Schultes, R.E. and Siri Von Reis (eds.) 1995. Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline. Portland: Dioscorides Press. [Check Book Status]

Schultes, R.E. and Albert Hofmann. 1992. Plants of the Gods, Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers, Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont. [Check Book Status]

Sheldon, Jennie Wood, Michael J. Balick and Sarah A. Liard. 1997. Medicinal Plants: Can Utilization and Conservation Coexist? Advances in Economic Botany V. 12. Bronx, New York: New York Botanic Garden. [Check Book Status]

Smith, Harlan I. 1997. Ethnobotany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia. Ed. by Brian Compton, Bruce Rigsby and Marie-Lucie Tarpent. Mercury Series Paper 132, Canadian Ethnology Service. Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization. [Check Book Status]

Stevens, Stan (ed.). 1997. Conservation through Cultural Survival, Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas Washington, DC and Covelo, CA: Island Press. [Check Book Status]

Turner, N.J., C. Thompson, M. T. Thompson, A.Z. York. 1990. Thompson Ethnobotany. Memoir No. 3, Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria. [Check Book Status]

Turner, Nancy J. 1995. Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples A Royal British Columbia Museum Handbook. Vancouver: University of British columbia Press. [Check Book Status]

Turner, Nancy J. 1997. Food Plants of Interior First Peoples. A Royal British Columbia Museum Handbook. Vancouver: University of British columbia Press. [Check Book Status]

Turner, Nancy J. 1998. Plant Technology of First Peoples in British Columbia. Vancouver : UBC Press. [Check Book Status]

Urton, Gary, 1985. Animal myths and metaphors in South America. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press. [Check Book Status]

Wheat, Margaret M. 1967. Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes. Reno: University of Nevada Press. [Check Book Status]

Willard, Terry. 1992. Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rocky Mountains and Neighbouring Territories. Calgary: Wild Rose College of Natural Healing. [Check Book Status]

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