11 articles in this issue
Cynthia T. Fowler,Scott Herron
Ethics is a core interest of practicing ethnobiologists and a function of healthy relationships between individuals, cultures, researchers, and the foci of study. Changing times and cultural identities require clear reflections among scientists and respon... see more
Ashley Blazina
An Interview with Verna Miller (Pepeyla)
Sophie Duncan
The Words We Use and The Worlds We Build
Kelly Bannister
Ethical guidance for research involving Indigenous and traditional communities, cultural knowledge, and associated biological resources has evolved significantly over recent decades. Formal guidance for ethnobiological research has been thoughtfully artic... see more
Nicole Sault
This paper addresses the relationship between scholarship and activism, considering the obligations that ethnobiologists have to the communities we work with. I begin by describing the cultural meaning of Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) in Peru through th... see more
Will Tuladhar-Douglas,Bhavana Tuladhar-Douglas
What are the ethical challenges and opportunities for a household where one parent is Indigenous and the other not? This article uses events from one family history to explore how social and political contexts in both the country of Indigenous origin and ... see more
Daniela Shebitz,Angela Oviedo
In the 1990s, the Maya-ICBG (International Cooperative Biodiversity Group) was one of the major bioprospecting projects in Chiapas, Mexico and was designed to incorporate traditional knowledge into pharmaceutical research. The researchers had hopes of ben... see more
Letitia M. McCune
Recognition of the importance of biodiversity for global food security and the community food sustainability movement has helped increase awareness of seed rights. International treaties created to ensure the world’s access to seed biodiversity address ac... see more
Armando Medinaceli
Based on my own experiences from the field, in this paper I reflect on my work in Bolivia and Guatemala, collaborating with the Tsimane’ and Q’eqchi’ peoples, respectively. The aim of this reflection is to propose a set of guidelines for an early step in ... see more
SOLAE Ethics Committee,Armando Medinaceli,Eréndira J. Cano,Arturo Argueta,Olga Lucia Sanabria
Latin American Society of Ethnobiology’s Code of Ethics
Cynthia T. Fowler
This article focuses on anthropogenic fire as a form of disturbance that is having an unusually strong influence on landscapes in the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. One series of significant disturbance incidents ... see more