... on various methodological, ethical and political aspects of ethnobotanical fieldwork. ... Man... more ... on various methodological, ethical and political aspects of ethnobotanical fieldwork. ... Manuel Boissiere is an ethnobotanist, working at the French Agricultural Research Centre ... D. inethnobotany, environmental anthropology and sustainable development from Cornell University ...
The dynamics of ethnobotanical knowledge among gender classes in 3 communities (San Juan, Guara a... more The dynamics of ethnobotanical knowledge among gender classes in 3 communities (San Juan, Guara and Can´o Seje) in Venezuela. Data regarding work schedule and household economy are derived from daily interviews conducted with women in 8 households in San Juan ...
In this ethnographic investigation of an “upstream” public health program to tackle illicit tobac... more In this ethnographic investigation of an “upstream” public health program to tackle illicit tobacco, we identify various processes by which particular kinds of people—both smokers and nonsmokers—are constituted in public health policies and practice, and what effects these constructions have for those so constituted and for the overall project. Our suggestion is that notions and dynamics implicit in public health (and, in this case, tobacco control) theory, epistemology, and procedures, create the conditions for negative consequences, notwithstanding any explicit aim to “improve people's lives.” In making our argument, we draw on several conceptual framings, including Foucault's notions of anatomo-and biopolitics and their impact on the constitution of suitable subjectivities and Hacking's ideas about “making up people.” We thus argue that through the rhetorical redeployment of categorizations of smokers and models of smoking personhoods, in the context of tobacco contro...
List of Figures, Maps and Tables List of Contributors Preface Roy Ellen Part I: The Current State... more List of Figures, Maps and Tables List of Contributors Preface Roy Ellen Part I: The Current State of Environmental Knowledge Research Introduction Serena Heckler Chapter 1. A Genealogy of Scientific Representations of Indigenous Knowledge Stanford Zent Part II: Environmental Knowledge and Power Chapter 2. The Cultural and Economic Globalisation of Traditional Environmental Knowledge Systems Miguel Alexiades Chapter 3. Competing and Coexisting with Cormorants: Ambiguity and Change in European Wetlands David N. Carss, Sandra Bell, and Mariella Marzano Chapter 4. Pathways to Developmen: Identity, Landscape and Industry in Papua New Guinea Emma Gilberthorpe Part III: Process in Environmental Knowledge Chapter 5. How Do They See It? Traditional Resource Management, Disturbance and Biodiversity Conservation in Papua New Guinea - William Thomas Chapter 6. Wild Plants as Agricultural Indicators: Linking Ethnobotany with Traditional Ecological Knowledge Takeshi Fujimoto Chapter 7. How Does M...
A synthesis of the main outcomes of the project "Towards climate change resilience" implemented f... more A synthesis of the main outcomes of the project "Towards climate change resilience" implemented from July 2014 to December 2016 in five Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. The report focuses on loss and damage in two of the most important economic sectors in the region: agriculture and tourism.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2004
Through an exploration of Amazonian ethnographic material, this article challenges the idea that ... more Through an exploration of Amazonian ethnographic material, this article challenges the idea that tasks normally associated with women are invariably considered to be less valuable than men's activities. I argue against the claims made by Rivière that manioc cultivation is ...
... on various methodological, ethical and political aspects of ethnobotanical fieldwork. ... Man... more ... on various methodological, ethical and political aspects of ethnobotanical fieldwork. ... Manuel Boissiere is an ethnobotanist, working at the French Agricultural Research Centre ... D. inethnobotany, environmental anthropology and sustainable development from Cornell University ...
The dynamics of ethnobotanical knowledge among gender classes in 3 communities (San Juan, Guara a... more The dynamics of ethnobotanical knowledge among gender classes in 3 communities (San Juan, Guara and Can´o Seje) in Venezuela. Data regarding work schedule and household economy are derived from daily interviews conducted with women in 8 households in San Juan ...
In this ethnographic investigation of an “upstream” public health program to tackle illicit tobac... more In this ethnographic investigation of an “upstream” public health program to tackle illicit tobacco, we identify various processes by which particular kinds of people—both smokers and nonsmokers—are constituted in public health policies and practice, and what effects these constructions have for those so constituted and for the overall project. Our suggestion is that notions and dynamics implicit in public health (and, in this case, tobacco control) theory, epistemology, and procedures, create the conditions for negative consequences, notwithstanding any explicit aim to “improve people's lives.” In making our argument, we draw on several conceptual framings, including Foucault's notions of anatomo-and biopolitics and their impact on the constitution of suitable subjectivities and Hacking's ideas about “making up people.” We thus argue that through the rhetorical redeployment of categorizations of smokers and models of smoking personhoods, in the context of tobacco contro...
List of Figures, Maps and Tables List of Contributors Preface Roy Ellen Part I: The Current State... more List of Figures, Maps and Tables List of Contributors Preface Roy Ellen Part I: The Current State of Environmental Knowledge Research Introduction Serena Heckler Chapter 1. A Genealogy of Scientific Representations of Indigenous Knowledge Stanford Zent Part II: Environmental Knowledge and Power Chapter 2. The Cultural and Economic Globalisation of Traditional Environmental Knowledge Systems Miguel Alexiades Chapter 3. Competing and Coexisting with Cormorants: Ambiguity and Change in European Wetlands David N. Carss, Sandra Bell, and Mariella Marzano Chapter 4. Pathways to Developmen: Identity, Landscape and Industry in Papua New Guinea Emma Gilberthorpe Part III: Process in Environmental Knowledge Chapter 5. How Do They See It? Traditional Resource Management, Disturbance and Biodiversity Conservation in Papua New Guinea - William Thomas Chapter 6. Wild Plants as Agricultural Indicators: Linking Ethnobotany with Traditional Ecological Knowledge Takeshi Fujimoto Chapter 7. How Does M...
A synthesis of the main outcomes of the project "Towards climate change resilience" implemented f... more A synthesis of the main outcomes of the project "Towards climate change resilience" implemented from July 2014 to December 2016 in five Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS): Cook Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. The report focuses on loss and damage in two of the most important economic sectors in the region: agriculture and tourism.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2004
Through an exploration of Amazonian ethnographic material, this article challenges the idea that ... more Through an exploration of Amazonian ethnographic material, this article challenges the idea that tasks normally associated with women are invariably considered to be less valuable than men's activities. I argue against the claims made by Rivière that manioc cultivation is ...
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