ethnobiology
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- History
- Beginnings (15th century–19th century)
- Phase I (1900s–1940s)
- Phase II (1950s–1970s)
- Present (1980s–2000s)
- Subjects of inquiry
- Usage
- Taxonomy
- Cosmological, moral and spiritual significance
- Traditional ecological knowledge
- Cross-cultural ethnobiology
- Subdisciplines
- Ethnobotany
- Ethnozoology
- Ethnoecology
- Other disciplines
- Ethics
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
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Ethnobiology is the multidisciplinary field of study of relationships among peoples, biota, and environments integrating many perspectives, from the social, biological, and medical sciences; along with application to conservation and sustainable development. The diversity of perspectives in ethnobiology allows for examining complex, dynamic interactions between human and natural systems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ethnobiology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.