| dc.contributor.author | Johnson, Leslie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-06-29T15:33:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-06-29T15:33:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-06-29T15:33:20Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2149/3075 | |
| dc.description | I attended the 2011 Society of Ethnobiology Conference in Columbus Ohio in early May, 2011. I presented my paper in a session on landscape in ethnobiology, which was well attended and well received. I moderated the session in addition to presenting my own paper. The three participants were able to engage in some discussions on landscape in ethnobiology, which were productive. Michael Gilmore (George Mason University, Virginia, USA) is also presenting in a session on landscape which I am co-organizing for the 2012 International Society of Ethnobiology congress which we discussed when we had the opportunity to meet I also judged the poster session together with two other judges. I participated in the Saturday field trip which was a visit to an Amish sustainable farm (an organic dairy farm) which was a very interesting and worthwhile trip. I have since discussed this in my blog on blogger and posted several images from the farm on my Flickr photostream. It is always very useful for me to attend my colleagues’ papers and I took the opportunity to discuss the progress of two books in which I have chapters with their editiors; I have recently received a reprint pdf of one of the chapters (in the volume edited by David Mark, et al.) I also was able to make the acquaintance of two young colleagues who are doing very relevant work in phytochemistry of indigenous plant remedies. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Landscape is often taken for granted in ethnobiological work, treated as setting, described in geographic or biological terms. Landscape is productive to examine as the (literal) foundation of ethnobiological work: where are the people located, the plants and animals of interest distributed? By what categories or broad evaluations do the people describe the lands on which they move and derive their living? What are the implications of these understandings? Landscape work is intrinsically transgressive of spatial scales and levels of meaning or generality. How language structure, environmental and social characteristics shape perception, classification, and interaction with local environments and the “natural world” are important aspects of ethnobiological research. How these relationships are altered or exist within today’s globalized world of migration and dis-located networks, and the implications of contrasting visions and understandings of Nature and the Land, and human relationship to it, are of key significance in the early 21st century. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 92.927.G1279; | |
| dc.subject | Ethnobiological work | en |
| dc.subject | Landscape | en |
| dc.subject | Natural world | en |
| dc.subject | Globalized world | en |
| dc.title | Landscape and Ethnoecology - an Ethnobiological View | en |
| dc.type | Presentation | en |
