Category: Books & Articles

Writing - Books & Articles

Ecomyopia in the Anthropocene

Anthropology Today (33:1), 2017. By D.G. Casagrande, E.C. Jones, F.S. Wyndham, J.R. Stepp & R. Zarger

“… ecomyopia [we] define as the tendency to not recognize, to ignore, or fail to act on new information that contradicts political arrangements, social norms, or world views…”

I was tickled that this cartoon was reproduced in the 2021 book, The Anthropocene in Global Media: Neutralizing the Risk, edited by L. …

May 29, 2017

Free for All: Foods, Landscapes, and Lives in the Paraguayan Chaco

Ethnobiology Letters 2016

This short memoir essay revisits my education in foodscapes with the Ayoreo community of Jesudi in the Paraguayan Chaco through stories and experiences of food procurement and distribution. From landscapes in which food was free for all (non-monetized) to contemporary encroachments and land-grabbing in the Chaco for globally-connected markets, the transformations have been rapid and witnessed by Ayoreo and other dispossessed indigenous groups. …

May 29, 2016

How Can We Teach Our Children if We Cannot Access the Forest?: Generational Change in Mapuche Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants in Andean Temperate Ecosystems of Chile

with Antonia Barreau et al. Journal of Ethnobiology 2016

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May 29, 2016

Taking Stock of Ethnobiology

with Dana Lepofsky and Sara Tiffany in the Journal of Ethnobiology 31(2011):110-127 DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-31.1.110

“Given the ecological and humanitarian crises faced in the 21st century and the transformations in world economies and ethnobiological knowledge systems, the field’s formal societies, as places of interaction and means for collective path-making, have a special role insetting the course for future priorities and directions.“ …

May 29, 2011

Ethnobiology for a Diverse World: Ethnobiology Emerging From a Time of Crisis

With Gary Nabhan and Dana Lepofsky 2011 Journal of Ethnobiology 31(2):172-175 DOI:10.2993/0278-0771-31.2.172

“Ethnobiologists, perhaps more than any other group of researchers, have the moral will, the perspectives, the know-how, and grassroots networks to be potential allies and resources for emerging coalitions of problem-solvers during such times of dramatic ecosystem and social change.” …

May 29, 2011

The Semiotics of Powerful Places

Rock Art and Landscape Relations in the Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico

2011 Journal of Anthropological Research 67(3):387-420

“Situated in places rich in symbolism, relationship, affect, and embodied history, the semiotics of rock art are interpreted and re-invented by contemporary Rarámuri, non-Rarámuri locals, tourists, and anthropologists. …

May 29, 2011

Environments of Learning

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May 29, 2009

Narrating

Landscapes

Writing - Books & Articles

Ecomyopia in the Anthropocene

Free for All: Foods, Landscapes, and Lives in the Paraguayan Chaco

How Can We Teach Our Children if We Cannot Access the Forest?: Generational Change in Mapuche Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants in Andean Temperate Ecosystems of Chile

Taking Stock of Ethnobiology

Ethnobiology for a Diverse World: Ethnobiology Emerging From a Time of Crisis

The Semiotics of Powerful Places

Environments of Learning

Spheres of Relations, Lines of Interaction

Tarahumara

Creative Collaboration

Ethnobiology & Biocultural Diversity

The Transmission of Traditional Plant Knowledge