Theoretical reflections on ethnobiology in the third millennium

• DOI: 10.2436/cs.v10i1.136955
• Publication Date: 2014-01-01
• Authors: Ugo D’Ambrosio
• Keywords: Ethnobiology

As in several other scientific endeavors, ethnobiology has greatly diversifi ed around the turn of millennium. Despite eff orts being made during recent years, discipline still gives impression needs to establish its identity among better defi ned fi elds study. Trying contribute ll this gap, review succinctly discusses multidisciplinary foundations and paradigmatic, theoretical conceptual diversification decades. This field study is characterized along these lines as “the investigation material symbolic interrelationships between human beings rest existing organisms.” Major ethnobiological perspectives, putative subdivisions, main research foci, preponderant subjects are proposed roughly outlined, addition foremost dualistic paradigmatic approaches multifaceted aims common branch knowledge. The relationships hybridizations political ecology a critical perspective conclude review, with nal speculation on supplementary future steps challenges amongst practitioners.