Current Reading

The Catch-22 of Conservation: Indigenous Peoples, Biologists, and Cultural Change by Flora Lu Holt

Previous Reading

A Quantitative Synthesis of the Medicinal Ethnobotany of the Malinké of Mali and the Asháninka Of Peru, with a New Theoretical Framework by Nathaniel Bletter

An Anthropological Approach to Therapeutic Strategies for Ethnopharmacology: The Case of Southwestern Madagascar by Gabriel Lefèvre

Sweeter Than Wine? The Use of the Grape in Early Western Asia by Naomi F. Miller

Eastern North America as an Independent Center of Plant Domestication by Bruce D. Smith

Antes and Hoy Día: Plant Knowledge and Categorization as Adaptations to Life in Panama in the Twenty-First Century by Nina K. Muller-Schwarze

Conservation of Useful Plants: An Evaluation of Local Priorities from Two Indigenous Communities in Eastern Panama by Sarah Paule Dalle and Catherine Potvin

An Extinction of (Ideas about) Species by K. David Harrison

Diversity of Methylxanthine Content in Ilex Cassine L. and Ilex Vomitoria Ait.: Assessing Sources of the North American Stimulant Cassina by Adam L. Edwards and Bradley C. Bennett

Nitrogen Fertilizer and Gender Effects on the Secondary Metabolism of Yaupon, a Caffeine-Containing North American Holly by Matthew J. Palumbo, Francis E. Putz, and Stephen T. Talcott

Evidence of Cacao Use in the Prehispanic American Southwest by Patricia L. Crown and W. Jeffrey Hurst

California Porcini: Three New Taxa, Observations on Their Harvest, and the Tragedy of No Commons by David Arora

Antiquity of Medicinal Plant Usage in Two Macro-Mayan Ethnic Groups (México) by Marco Leonti, Otto Sticher, and Michael Heinrich

Dominant Plants of the Maya Forest and Gardens of El Pilar: Implications for Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions by Anabel Ford

Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning by K. David Harrison

Notes

The Enigmatic Evanescence of Coca from Ecuador by Lynn Hirschkind

Observations on Natural Resource Use and Conservation by the Shuar in Ecuador’s Cordillera del Cóndor by Amy E. Duchelle

The Use of Magical Plants by Curanderos in the Ecuador Highlands by Anthony P. Cavender and Manuel Alban

Human Predators Outpace Other Agents of Trait Change in the Wild by Chris T. Darimont, Stephanie M. Carlson, Michael T. Kinnison, Paul C. Paquet, Thomas E. Reimchen and Christopher C. Wilmers

Human-induced Dwarfing of Himalayan Snow Lotus, Saussurea laniceps (Asteraceae) by Wayne Law and Jan Salick

Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Conservation Research: Problems and Prospects for their Constructive Engagement by Janna M. Shackeroff and
Lisa M. Campbell

Indigenous Agroforestry Systems in Amazonia: From Prehistory to Today by
Robert Pritchard Miller and P.K.R. Nair

Some Aspects of Avocado (Persea americana Mill.) Diversity and Domestication in Mesoamerica by María Elena Galindo-Tovar, Nisao Ogata-Aguilar, and Amaury M. Arzate-Fernández

Shifting Cultivation and Biodiversity Conservation in Bhutan by Ugyen Namgyel, Stephen F. Siebert, and Sonam Wang

Folk Classification, Perception, and Preferences of Baobab Products In West Africa: Consequences For Species Conservation and Improvement by A. E. Assogbadjo, R. Glèlè Kakaï, F. J. Chadare, L. Thomson, T. Kyndt, B. Sinsin, And P. Van Damme

Community-based Conservation in a Globalized World by Fikret Berkes

Diet and Health Changes at the End of the Chinese Neolithic: The Yangshao/ Longshan Transition in Shaanxi Province by Ekaterina A. Pechenkina, Robert A. Benfer, Jr., and Wang Zhijun

Fox-Tail Millets (Setaria: Poaceae)—Abandoned Food In Two Hemispheres by Daniel E Austi

Country People in Norway and Their Knowledge of Plants by Ove Arbo Höeg

Cognitive Aspects of Intergenerational Change: Mental Models, Cultural Change, and Environmental Behavior among the Lacandon Maya of Southern Mexico by Norbert Ross

Participatory resource mapping for adaptive collaborative management at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya by Humphrey W. Kalibo and Kimberly E. Medley

Infra-specific folk taxonomy in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) in Ethiopia: folk nomenclature, classification, and criteria by Firew Mekbib

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) as a pre-Columbian domesticate in Mexico by David L. Lentz, Mary DeLand Pohl, José Luis Alvarado, Somayeh Tarighat, and Robert Bye

Winnowing the archaeological evidence for domesticated sunflower in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica by Bruce D. Smith

Molecular evidence and the origin of the domesticated sunflower by Loren Rieseberg and John M. Burke

A lack of linguistic evidence for domesticated sunflower in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica by Cecil H. Brown

How old is the sunflower in Mexico? by Charles B. Heiser

Reply to Rieseberg and Burke, Heiser, Brown, and Smith: Molecular, linguistic, and archaeological evidence for domesticated sunflower in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica by David L. Lentz, Mary DeLand Pohl, and Robert Bye

Popular Views of Ethnobotany

Popular Views of Ethnobotany_2

Popular Views of Ethnobotany 3

Star Trek Ethnobotanist

Additional Reading

How to write consistently boring scientific literature by Kaj Sand-Jensen

Indigenous Knowledge Informing Management of Tropical Forests: The Link between Rhythms in Plant Secondary Chemistry and Lunar Cycles by Kristiina A. Vogt et al.