Introduction to Ethnobiology

Part I. History, Approaches and Concepts

1. What Is Ethnobiology?
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Angelo Giuseppe Chaves Alves

2. History of Ethnobiology
André Sobral, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

3. Ethnobiology or Ethnoecology?
Angelo Giuseppe Chaves Alves, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

4. Historical Ethnobiology
Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros

5. Paleoethnobiology
Steve Wolverton, Andrew Barker, Jonathan Dombrosky

6. Urban Ethnobiology
Ana Haydeé Ladio, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

7. Diaspora Ethnobiology
Robert A. Voeks

8. Ethnophycology
Patricia Marta Arenas

9. Gastronomic Ethnobiology
Andrea Pieroni, Lukas Pawera, Ghulam Mujtaba Shah

10. Ethnoprimatology
Marilian Boachá Sampaio, Antonio Souto, Nicola Schiel

11. An Ethnobiology of Change
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Victoria Reyes-García

12. Political Ecology and Ethnobiology
Steve Wolverton, Justin M. Nolan, Matthew Fry

13. Ethnobiology, Ethics, and Traditional Knowledge Protection
Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

Part II. Biota Perception and Classification

14. What Is Environmental Perception?
Taline Cristina Silva, Leonardo da Silva Chaves, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

15. Biota Perception and Use
Taline Cristina Silva, Letícia Zenóbia Oliveira Campos, Josivan Soares Silva, Rosemary Silva Sousa, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

16. Biological and Evolutionary Bases of Human Perception of the Natural Environment
Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Taline Cristina Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

17. Risk Perception
Taline Cristina Silva, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Flávia Rosa Santoro, Thiago Antônio de Sousa Araújo, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

18. How and Why Should People Classify Natural Resources?
Andrêsa Suana Argemiro Alves, Lucilene Lima Santos, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

19. Alternative Views of Folk Classification
Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Paulo Henrique Santos Gonçalves, Reinaldo Farias Paiva Lucena, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

Part III. Biota Use

20. Fungi
Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Paulo Henrique Santos Gonçalves, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

21. Food Plants
Viviany Teixeira Nascimento, Letícia Zenóbia Oliveira Campos, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

22. Medicinal Plants
Thiago Antônio Sousa Araújo, Joabe Gomes Melo, Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

23. Fortifier, Tonic, and Rejuvenating Plants and the Adaptogen Concept
Danilo Ribeiro Oliveira, Suzana Guimarães Leitão

24. Magic Plants
Rainer W. Bussmann

25. Ornamental Plants
Julio Alberto Hurrell

26. Timber Resources
Marcelo Alves Ramos, Maria Clara Bezerra Tenório Cavalcanti, Fábio José Vieira

27. Animal Resources
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves

Part IV. Biota Management and Domestication

28. Plant and Landscape Local Management
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, José Ribamar Sousa Júnior

29. Indigenous Use of Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystem Domestication
Maximilien Guèze

30. Extractivism of Plant Resources
Juliana Loureiro Almeida Campos, Ivanilda Soares Feitosa, Julio Marcelino Monteiro, Gilney Charll Santos, Cristina Baldauf, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

31. Plant Domestication
Ernani Machado Freitas Lins Neto, José Ribamar Sousa Júnior, Alejandro Casas, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

32. Domestication of Animals
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves

33. Ethnobiology and Biodiversity Conservation
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Daniel Carvalho Pires Sousa

Part V. Factors Affecting Local Biological Knowledge

34. Local or Traditional Knowledge Transmission and Natural Resource Use
Gustavo Taboada Soldati

35. Gender and Age
Wendy Marisol Torres-Avilez, André Luiz Borba Nascimento, Leticia Zenobia Oliveira Campos, Flávia Santos Silva, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

36. Ethnicity, Income, and Education
Patrícia Muniz Medeiros, Juliana Loureiro Almeida Campos, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

37. Urbanization, Modernization, and Nature Knowledge
Washington Soares Ferreira Júnior, Flávia Rosa Santoro, Ina Vandebroek, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

38. How Does Social Status Relate to Traditional Ecological Knowledge?
Victoria Reyes-García, Sandrine Gallois

39. Plant Knowledge and Use in the Context of Migration
Patrícia Muniz Medeiros, Diego Batista Oliveira Abreu, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque

40. Cultural Comparisons in Ethnobiological Research
Ina Vandebroek

Keywords: Life Sciences, Biological Techniques, Ecology, Zoology