This book provides the state of the art of ethnobiology in Argentina and related Latin American countries, highlighting timely trends and topics. It synthesizes studies resulting from the III Jornadas Argentinas de Etnobiología y Sociedad (III JAES3rd Argentinian Meeting of Ethnobiology and Society), convened in La Plata in 2021. As a relatively new academic development, ethnobiology integrates approaches from different points of view, such as biology, anthropology, geography, history, linguistics, and, in a crucial recent advance, local perspectives. Consequently, this volume contains 33 contributions from 86 authors of different countries, orientations, and disciplinesbut all related to interrelationships between people/s and the natural environment.
Chapters cover a diverse array of topics, ranging from biocultural relationships and their historical construction through time to conservation of biocultural and agrodiversity, ethnomycology, ethnophycology, and meliponiculture and beyond. The volumes main goal is to propitiate the preservation of biocultural diversity through the application of ethnobiological wisdom in a global context characterized by the accelerated loss of traditional knowledge. The contributions aim to transcend the nature/culture dichotomy, emphasizing the inextricable relationship between communities and their environment and the importance of acting jointly in the construction of the inhabited landscape and local identity.
Part
1. Biocultural Diversity and its Construction in Latin
America.-Chapter
1. ntroduction: A Review of the State of the Art of
Ethnobiology in Argentina and related Latin American Countries.
Chapter
2.
Domestication of Species and Landscapes in Mesoamerica.
Chapter
3. Trees in
the Conformation of Relational Landscapes in the North of Mendoza (Central
Western Argentina) from the Pre-Hispanic Period to the Modern Day.
Chapter4.
The Immateriality of Cultivated Plants in the Context of Rio Negro Region
(Brazilian Amazon).
Chapter
5. Food Sovereignty: Shared Knowledge and
Experiences in Argentine Ethnobiology and Archaeology.
Chapter
6. Local
Knowledge, Food, Territory and Biodiversity. Case Studies from Mexico and
Brazil .
Chapter
7. Criollos from the Chaco Húmedo Formoseño. Some Aspects
of their Ethnomedicine .- Part
2. Methodological Approaches to the Study of
Biocultural Diversity .
Chapter
8. Methodological Diversity and Reflexivity
in Ethnobiological Research .
Chapter
9. Confessional Narrative of
Patriarchal Misconceptions in Ethnobiological Studies of Northern Patagonia
.
Chapter
10. Urban Ethnobiology: a Space for Reflection on the
Relationships Between People and their Environment in Multicultural
Contexts.
Chapter
11. Studies about Environmental Change and Local Knowledge
in Latin America .
Chapter
12. Conservation and Identification of Botanical
Materials in Ethnobiological Studies .
Chapter
13. Socio-Anthropological
Holism and the Origins of French Ethnobotany .
Chapter
14. We are the
Seeds: Formal Teaching of Ethnobiology .
Chapter
15. Dialogues with the
Community: Knowledge Exchange from Ethnobiology .- Part
3. The Ethnobotany as
a Theoretical and Practical Turning Point between Cultural and Biological
Conservation: Valorisation Tools Linking Tradition and Innovation .
Chapter
16. Contributions of Ethnobotanics to the Use and Conservation of Cactaceae
Biocultural Heritage in Northwestern Córdoba. Identity Studies,
Agro-diversity and Conservation of Traditional Practices .
Chapter
17.
Following the footsteps of ethnobiologists in the Andresito Peninsula
palmitales. Basic and applied science as indissoluble parts when local actors
are involved .
Chapter
18. Development of Meliponiculture in Argentina,
Ethnobiology and Melissopalynology as Tools for Progress .- Part
4.
Ethnophycology and ethnomycology .
Chapter
19. Ethnophycology and
Ethnomycology: Two Fields of Study with Great Potential .
Chapter
20. Women
Seaweed Gatherers of Queilen (Chiloé, Chile) .
Chapter
21. Ethnomycology of
South-East Mexico .- Part
5. Historical ethnobiology and the meaning of the
living beings in the documental sources .
Chapter
22. Research on Historical
Ethnobotany carried out by The Laboratory of Ethnobotany from The Argentine
Museum of Natural History .
Chapter
23. Plant Complexes and the Importance
of Context in Historical Ethnobotany Identifications .
Chapter
24. An
Approach to Qom Ethnobotany of the Nineteenth Century based on the Work of
Ángel Carranza .
Chapter
25. Historical Ethnobotanical Documentation by
Means of Images .- Part
6. Pre- and Post-Contact Plant Management: a Temporal
Vision about Cultural Elections Related to Plant Modes of Use in Past
Conjunctural Contexts .
Chapter
26. Post-conquest Early Changes in
Phyto-cultural Systems from the Analysis of Food: a Synthesis for the
Argentine Arid Diagonal with Emphasis on the Gobernación de Tucumán
Governorate of Tucumán- .
Chapter
27. Advances in Archaeobotany of
Central-Eastern Argentina. Dynamics in the Use of Plants from the Early
Holocene to Colonial Times Through the Analysis of Micro and Macro Plant
Remains .
Chapter
28. The Trees in the Construction of Landscapes in the
Argentine Pampean Region. Changes, Continuities and Resignifications in the
Primera Estancia of Magdalena (Buenos Aires) .
Chapter
29. Plant
Consumption in the Northern Patagonian Archipelago (41-47° S, Chile) since
6000 Years BP to Historical Times: an Integrative Vision through Ceramic Use
Residues and Human Dental Calculus .- Part 7. The Archaeofauna and its
Narratives .
Chapter
30. Herders and Llamas, Companion Species in the
Southern Andes during the Last Three Millenia .
Chapter
31. Taphonomy and
Archaeofaunas: Friends with Benefits? .
Chapter
32. Multiple Aproaches for
Archaeozoological Studies in Argentina .
Chapter
33. Variations in the
Isotopic Niche of South American Camelids. A Vision from Applied
Zooarchaeology.
María Lelia Pochettino. Anthropologist. Doctor in Natural Sciences. Head of the LEBA. Professor of the undergraduate matter Applied Botany and Head of the Postgraduate Secretary, FCNyM, UNLP. Researcher at the CONICET, Argentina.
Aylen Capparelli. Biologist. Doctor in Natural Sciences. Head of the GIADA. Professor of the undergraduate matter Applied Botany and of the postgraduate module of Archaeobotany, FCNyM, UNLP. Researcher at the CONICET, Argentina.
Pablo C. Stampella. Biologist. Doctor in Natural Sciences. Graduate Assistant of the undergraduate matter Introduction to Botany and of several Postgraduate matters, FCNyM, UNLP. Researcher at the CONICET, Argentina
Diego Andreoni. Anthropologist. Doctor in Natural Sciences. Graduate Assistant of the undergraduate matter Applied Botany and of the postgraduate module of Archaeobotany, FCNyM, UNLP. Researcher at the CONICET, Argentina.
