Evolutionary Ethnobiology

ISBN-13: 9783319199160 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 204 str.

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque; Patricia De Medeiros; Alejandro Casas

Opis

Ethnobiology is a fascinating science. To understand this vocation it needs to be studied under an evolutionary point of view that is very strong and significant, although this aspect is often poorly approached in the literature. This is the first book to compile and discuss information about evolutionary ethnobiology in English.

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Contents

1. Evolutionary Ethnobiology

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Alejandro Casas

 

2. Ecological-evolutionary Approaches to the Human-environment Relationship: History and Concepts

Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

 

3. Evolution of Humans and by Humans

Alejandro Casas, Fabiola Parra, José Blancas

 

4. Evolutionary Ecology and Ethnobiology

Alejandro Casas, Fabiola Parra, Selene Rangel, Susana Guillén, José Blancas, Carmen J. Figueredo

 

5. Evolutionary Approaches to Ethnobiology

C. Haris Saslis-Lagoudakis, Nina Rønsted, Andrew C. Clarke, Julie A. Hawkins

 

6. Niche Construction Theory and Ethnobiology

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Flávia Rosa Santoro, Wendy Marisol Torres Avilez, José Ribamar Sousa Júnior

 

7. Knowledge Transmission: The Social Origin of Information and Cultural Evolution

Gustavo Taboada Soldati

 

8. Resilience and Adaptation in Social-ecological Systems

Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, André Luiz Borba Nascimento, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Flávia Rosa Santoro, Victoria Reyes-García, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

 

9. Utilitarian Redundancy: Conceptualization and Potential Applications in Ethnobiological Research

André Luiz Borba Nascimento, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Flávia Rosa Santoro, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

 

10. The Influence of the Environment on Natural Resource Use: Evidence of Apparency

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Joabe Gomes de Melo, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, André Luiz Borba Nascimento, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior

 

11. Local Criteria for Medicinal Plant Selection

Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Ana Haydée Ladio, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

 

12. Use Patterns of Medicinal Plants by Local Populations

Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

 

13. Biological and Cultural Bases of the Use of Medicinal and Food Plants

Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Letícia Zenóbia de Oliveira Campos, Andrea Pieroni, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

 

14. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Use of Hallucinogens

Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Margarita Paloma Cruz, Fábio José Vieira, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

 

 

O autorze

Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

Laboratory of Applied and Theoretical Ethnobiology

Department of Biology

Federal Rural University of Pernambuco

Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Blurb

This work adds an ecological and evolutionary perspective to the study of the relations between humans and natural resources. The first to cover this subject in English, this text studies the branch of ethnobiology that analyzes the evolutionary history of human behavioral patterns and human understanding about biological resources, considering the historical and contemporary aspects that influence these behaviors at both the individual and societal levels.

Ethnobiology aggregates different theoretical, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. While some of these perspectives ignore the ecological and evolutionary nature of ethnobiology, the conventional ecological science insufficiently considers human aspects as topics of theoretical interest. Through exploring theories in ethnobiology, this work examines the interrelationships between people and nature, considering the forces that helped shape this inextricable link.