This article serves as an introduction for a special issue of Field Methods titled “Field Methods in Ethnobiology.” The contribution of ethnobiological research to the development of methods in the social sciences is explored in a historical perspective. A summary of the articles found in the special issue is presented.
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Berlin, B.1984. Contributions of Native American collectors to the ethnobotany of the neotropics. In Advances in economic botany, Vol. 3, ed. G. T. Prance and J. A. Kallunki, 24-33. New York: New York Botanical Garden.
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Berlin, B.1992. Ethnobiological classification: Principles of classification of plants and animals in traditional societies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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Berlin, B., D. E. Breedlove, and P. H. Raven. 1974. Principles of Tzeltal plant classification: An introduction to the botanical ethnography of a Mayan-speaking people of the Highlands of Chiapas. New York: Academic Press.
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Berreman, G.1966. Anemic and emetic analysis in social anthropology. American Anthropologist68: 346-354.
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Boster, J.1985. Requiem for the omniscient informant: There’s life in the old girl yet. In Directions in cognitive anthropology, ed. J. Dougherty, 177-197. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
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Boster, J.1986. Exchange of varieties and information between Aguaruna manioc cultivators. American Anthropologist89: 914-920.
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Boster, J. S., and J. C. Johnson. 1989. Form or function: A comparison of expert and novice judgment of similarity among fish. American Anthropologist91: 866-889.
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Conklin, H. C.1954. An ethnoecological approach to shifting agriculture. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series II17: 133-142.
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Cunningham, T.2000. Applied ethnobotany: People, wild plant use and conservation. London: Earthscan.
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D’Andrade, R.1995. The development of cognitive anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Davis, W.1991. Toward a new synthesis in ethnobotany. In Las plantas y el hombre, ed. M. Rios and H. Borgtoft Pedersen, 339-357. Quito, Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala.
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Ethnobiology Working Group. 2003. Intellectual imperatives in ethnobiology. St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press.
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Johnson, J., and D. C. Griffith. 1998. Visual data: Collection, analysis and representation. In Using methods in the field: A practical introduction and casebook, ed. V. C. de Munck and E. J. Sobo, 211-228. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira.
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Kendall, C., E. Leontsini, E. Gil, F. Cruz, P. Hudelson, and P. Pelto. 1990. Exploratory ethnoentomology: Using ANTHROPAC to design a dengue fever control program. Cultural Anthropology Methods2 (2): 11-12.
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Martin, G.1995. Ethnobotany: A methods manual. New York: Chapman Hall.
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Metzger, D., and G. Williams. 1966. Some procedures and results in the study of native categories: Tzeltal firewood. American Anthropologist68: 389-407.
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Moerman, D., R. Pemberton, D. Kiefer, and B. Berlin. 1999. Comparative analysis of five medicinal floras. Journal of Ethnobiology19 (1): 49-67.
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Reyes-García, V., E. Byron, V. Vadez, R. Godoy, L. Apaza, E. Pérez Limache, W. R. Leonard, and D. Wilkie. 2004. Measuring culture as shared knowledge: Do data collection formats matter? Cultural knowledge of plant uses among Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivia. Field Methods16: 135-156.
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Romney, A. K., S. C. Weller, and W. H. Batchelder. 1986. Culture as consensus: A theory of culture and informant accuracy. American Anthropologist88 (2): 313-338.
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Stepp, J. R., and M. Thomas. 2005. Managing ethnopharmacological data: Herbaria, relational data bases, literature. In Ethnopharmacology: Encyclopedia of life support systems, ed. N. Etkin and E. Elisabetsky, Oxford, UK: UNESCO, EOLSS.
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Ticktin, T., G. de la Peña Valencia, C. Illsey Granich, S. Dalle, and F. Ramirez. 2002. Participatory ethnoecological research for conservation. In Ethnobiology and biocultural diversity, ed. J. R. Stepp, F. Wyndham, and R. Zarger, 575-584. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
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Trotter, R. T., III, and M. H. Logan. 1986. Informant consensus: A new approach for identifying potentially effective medicinal plants. In Plants in indigenous medicine and diet: Biobehavioral approaches, ed. N. L. Etkin, 91-111. Bedford Hills, NY: Redgrave.
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Tuxill, J., and G. P. Nabhan. 1998. People, plants and protected areas: A guide to in situ management. London: Earthscan.
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Vogl, C. R., B. Vogl-Lukasser, and R. K. Puri. 2004. Tools and methods for data collection in ethnobotanical studies of homegardens. Field Methods16: 285-306.
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Wichramasuriya, H. V. A., and P. Pelto. 1991. Analysis of home garden crops in Sri Lanka: A practical assessment using ANTHROPAC. Cultural Anthropology Methods3 (2): 10-12.
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Zarger, R. K., and J. R. Stepp. 2004. Persistence of botanical knowledge among Tzeltal Maya children. Current Anthropology45: 413-418.
