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Enduring Legacies of Agriculture: Long-term Vegetation Impacts of Ancestral Menominee Agriculture, Wisconsin, USA 农业的持久遗产：美国威斯康星州梅诺米尼人祖先农业对植被的长期影响

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Ethnobiology Letters Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI: 10.14237/ebl.14.1.2023.1864

Madeleine McLeester, Alison E. Anastasio, Jeff Grignon

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Directions In Brazilian Ethnobiology 巴西民族生物学的发展方向

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Ethnobiology Letters Pub Date : 2023-12-11 DOI: 10.14237/ebl.14.1.2023.1862

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

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In Search of the Ancient Maya Foods. A Paleoethnobotany Study From a Non-elite Context in Sihó, Yucatán 寻找古玛雅食物。尤卡坦州西霍（Sihó）非精英背景下的古民族植物学研究

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Ethnobiology Letters Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI: 10.14237/ebl.14.1.2023.1854

Esteban Moisés Herrera-Parra

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Perceptions of the Titicaca Grebe (Rollandia microptera) in a Peruvian Aymara Fishing Village 对秘鲁艾马拉渔村的的的喀喀湖的看法

Ethnobiology Letters Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI: 10.14237/ebl.14.1.2023.1858

Jhazel Quispe, Daniel Villar, Joel Zapana, Bastian Thomsen, Andrew G. Gosler

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Prescribed Fire Use Among Black Landowners in the Red Hills Region, USA 美国红山地区黑人土地所有者规定的火灾使用

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Ethnobiology Letters Pub Date : 2023-08-04 DOI: 10.14237/ebl.14.1.2023.1855

Lawrence Perkins, T. A. Coates, J. Hiers, C. Fowler, Seth W. Bigelow

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Doing Conservation Differently: Toward a Diverse Conservations Inventory 以不同的方式进行保护:迈向多样化的保护清单

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Ethnobiology Letters Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.14237/ebl.14.2.2023.1835

M. Gillette, Daniela J. Shebitz, B. Singleton

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The Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) Food Forest Project—Reconciliation in Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education through Cross-Cultural Agroforestry Demonstration Skarú·rÉʔ（Tuscarra）粮食林项目——通过跨文化农林示范实现可持续农业研究与教育的协调

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Ethnobiology Letters Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.14237/ebl.14.2.2023.1840

Samantha Bosco, Bradley Thomas

{"title":"The Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) Food Forest Project—Reconciliation in Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education through Cross-Cultural Agroforestry Demonstration","authors":"Samantha Bosco, Bradley Thomas","doi":"10.14237/ebl.14.2.2023.1840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14237/ebl.14.2.2023.1840","url":null,"abstract":"Temperate nut trees have long been utilized in eastern North America, providing high quality food, durable materials, and contributing to multispecies relationships across geographic and cultural landscapes. While not widely consumed today, renewed interest in temperate nuts such as hybrid chestnuts and hazelnuts, are part of efforts to realize nature-based solutions to climate change, which include multifunctional agroforestry systems. Indigenous peoples’ contributions to agroforestry and climate resilience are substantial, however sustainable agricultural research often overlooks critical social justice implications underlying the history of colonization in settler nations, including dispossessed land and appropriated Indigenous crops. As one of the most nutritionally dense plant-based foods, nuts were important components of Haudenosaunee foodways. Archaeological, ethnographic, and historical-ecological evidence indicate that the Haudenosaunee subsistence and settlement dynamics transformed cultural landscapes favoring such nut trees. The Skarù·ręʔ (Tuscarora) Food Forest was a community-based project demonstrating contemporary contributions of nut trees to Indigenous food systems in ancestral Haudenosaunee territories, today known as New York State. While domesticated crop polycultures (i.e., the Three Sisters) are iconic of Haudenosaunee horticultural ingenuities, temperate nuts are lesser-known woodland foods that can additionally contribute to food and language revitalization efforts within contemporary Haudenosaunee territories. Here we discuss theories and praxes informing community engaged approaches at the Skarù·ręʔ Nation. By addressing social justice concerns within agricultural science, we demonstrate how the Skarù·ręʔ Food Forest Project can provide a methodological testing ground for reconciliation-based and decolonial participatory action research that expands ongoing food sovereignty, community health, and education initiatives.","PeriodicalId":43787,"journal":{"name":"Ethnobiology Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45085174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mutiny on the Boundary? Examining ILK-Based Conservation Collaborations through the Lens of Rubbish Theory 边界叛变?从垃圾理论的角度审视基于ilc的保护合作

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Ethnobiology Letters Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.14237/ebl.14.2.2023.1830

B. Singleton, Maris Boyd Gillette

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Cultivating the Unseen: Paʻakai and the Role of Practice in Coastal Care 培养隐形人：帕凯和实践在海岸护理中的作用

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Ethnobiology Letters Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.14237/ebl.14.2.2023.1825

Gina McGuire, Alexander Mawyer

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The Challenges of Symmetrical Dialogue: Reflections on Collaborative Research in Northeast Brazil 对称对话的挑战:对巴西东北部合作研究的思考

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Ethnobiology Letters Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI: 10.14237/ebl.14.2.2023.1836

P. Bollettin, C. El-Hani, David Ludwig

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