Ethnobiology and the Science of Humankind [Paperback]

• Considers the ways in which the subject matter and methodologies of ethnobiological research address core anthropological questions.
• Contributors explore a wide range of themes, such as our understanding of those processes which transform the environment, and the evolution of the cultural mind.
• Addresses anthropological issues of general interest, from biology to reflexivity.
  
• Helps to develop the productive relationship between ethnobiology and anthropology.

. Introduction: Roy Ellen (University of Kent, UK).

2. Speculations on the First Congress of Ethnozoological Nomenclature: Brent Berlin (University of Georgia, USA).

3. Ethnobiology and the Evolution of the Human Mind: Steven Mithen (University of Reading, UK).

4. The Interplay of Ethnographic and Archaeological Knowledge in the Study of Past Human Subsistence: David Harris (University College London).

5. The Contrastive Historical Ecologies of Amazonian Hunter-Gatherers: Laura Rival (University of Oxford, UK).

6. The Interface Between Medical Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology: Anna Waldstein and Cameron Adams (Department of Anthropology, University of Kent).

7. Ethnobiology and Applied Anthropology: Paul Sillitoe (University of Durham, UK).

8. Meeting of Minds: How do we Share our Appreciation of Tek?: Eugene Hunn (University of Washington, USA).

Index.