Ethnozoology
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Ethnozoology

Animals in Our Lives

1st Edition - October 23, 2017

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  • Editors: Romulo Romeu Nobrega Alves, Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128099148
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128099131

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Ethnozoology: Animals In Our Lives represents the first book about this discipline, providing a discussion on key themes on human-animal interactions and their implications, along with recent major advances in research. Humans share the world with a bewildering variety of other animals, and have interacted with them in different ways. This variety of interactions (both past and present) is investigated through ethnozoology, which is a hybrid discipline structured with elements from both the natural and social sciences, as it seeks to understand how humans have perceived and interacted with faunal resources throughout history. In a broader context, ethnozoology, and its companion discipline, ethnobotany, form part of the larger body of the science of ethnobiology. In recent years, the importance of ethnozoological/ethnobiological studies has increasingly been recognized, unsurprisingly given the strong human influence on biodiversity. From the perspective of ethnozoology, the book addresses all aspects of human connection, animals and health, from its use in traditional medicine, to bioprospecting derivatives of fauna for pharmaceuticals, with expert contributions from leading researchers in the field.

Key Features

  • Draws on editors’ and contributors’ extensive research, experience and studies covering ethnozoology and ethnobiology
  • Covers all aspects of human-animal interaction through the lens of this emerging discipline, with coverage of both domestic and wild animal topics
  • Presents topics of great interest to a variety of researchers including those in wildlife/conservation (biologists, ecologists, conservationists) and domestic-related disciplines (psychologists, sociologists)

Readership

Researchers in diverse areas of the sciences, including Zoology, Biology, Ethnobiology, Conservation Biology, Ecology, Anthropology, Sociology and other related academic disciplines; could also be used as an undergraduate/graduate text/supplement for courses associated with these areas

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction: Animals in Our Lives
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES AND ULYSSES PAULINO ALBUQUERQUE

    2. Ethnozoology: Conceptual and Historical Aspects
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES, WEDSON MEDEIROS SILVA SOUTO AND ULYSSES PAULINO ALBUQUERQUE

    3. Zooarcheology: Investigating Past Interactions Between Humans and Other Animals
    STEVE WOLVERTON AND LISA NAGAOKA

    4. Studying Ethnozoology in Historical Documents
    MARIA FRANCO TRINDADE MEDEIROS AND RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES

    5. Imaginary Zoology: Mysterious Fauna in the Reports of Ancient Travelers and Chroniclers
    KLEBER DA SILVA VIEIRA, WASHINGTON LUIZ SILVA VIEIRA AND RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES

    6. Ethnotaxomy as a Methodological Tool for Studies of the Ichthyofauna and Its Conservation Implications: A Review
    JOSÉ DA SILVA MOURÃO AND MÁRCIO LUIZ VARGAS BARBOSA FILHO

    7. The Importance of Hunting in Human Societies
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES, WEDSON MEDEIROS SILVA SOUTO, HUGO FERNANDES-FERREIRA, DANDARA MONALISA MARIZ BEZERRA, RAYNNER RILKE DUARTE BARBOZA AND WASHINGTON LUIZ SILVA VIEIRA

    8. People and Fishery Resources: A Multidimensional Approach
    MARCIA FREIRE PINTO, TACYANA PEREIRA RIBEIRO OLIVEIRA, LUIZ ALVES ROCHA AND RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES

    9. Animal Domestication and Ethnozootechny
    ÂNGELO GIUSEPPE CHAVES ALVES, MARIA NORMA RIBEIRO, JANAINA KELLI GOMES ARANDAS AND RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES

    10. Wild Fauna on the Menu
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES AND NATHALIE VAN VLIET

    11. Insects as Human Food
    ARNOLD VAN HUIS
     
    12. Current Levels, Recent Historical Trends, and Drivers of Wildmeat Trade in the Amazon Tri-Frontier Region Between Colombia, Peru, and Brazil
    NATHALIE VAN VLIET, JESSICA MORENO, JUANITA GOMEZ, LAURANE L’HARIDON, LINDON NEVES DE AQUINO, FRANÇOIS SANDRIN, LILIANA VANEGAS AND ROBERT NASI

    13. Animals and Human Health: Where Do They Meet?
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES AND IAMARA DA SILVA POLICARPO

    14. Use and Commercialization of Animals as Decoration
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES, ELLORI LAÍSE SILVA MOTA AND THELMA LÚCIA PEREIRA DIAS

    15. The Role of Animals in Human Culture
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES AND RAYNNER RILKE DUARTE BARBOZA

    16. Fauna at Home: Animals as Pets
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES AND LUIZ ALVES ROCHA

    17. What About the Unusual Soldiers? Animals Used in War
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES AND RAYNNER RILKE DUARTE BARBOZA

    18. The Ethnozoological Role of Working Animals in Traction and Transport
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES

    19. Wildlife Attractions: Zoos and Aquariums
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES AND WALTER LECHNER

    20. From Roman Arenas to Movie Screens: Animals in Entertainment and Sport
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES AND RAYNNER RILKE DUARTE BARBOZA

    21. Animals as Ethnozooindicators of Weather and Climate
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES AND RAYNNER RILKE DUARTE BARBOZA

    22. Understanding Human–Wildlife Conflicts and Their Implications
    DENISE FREITAS TORRES, EDUARDO SILVA OLIVEIRA AND RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES

    23. Biological Predispositions and Individual Differences in Human Attitudes Toward Animals
    PAVOL PROKOP AND CHRISTOPH RANDLER

    24. The Role of Ethnozoology in Animal Studies
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES AND SÉRGIO DE FARIA LOPES

    25. Ethnozoology and Animal Conservation
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES, JOSIVAN SOARES SILVA, LEONARDO DA SILVA CHAVES AND ULYSSES PAULINO ALBUQUERQUE
     
    26. The Use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Context of Participatory Wildlife Management: Examples From Indigenous Communities in Puerto Nariño, Amazonas-Colombia
    NATHALIE VAN VLIET, LAURANE L’HARIDON, JUANITA GOMEZ, LILIANA VANEGAS, FRANÇOIS SANDRIN AND ROBERT NASI

    27. Ethnozoology: An Overview and Current Perspectives
    RÔMULO ROMEU NÓBREGA ALVES, JOSIVAN SOARES SILVA, LEONARDO DA SILVA CHAVES AND ULYSSES PAULINO ALBUQUERQUE

Product details

  • No. of pages: 552
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
  • Published: October 23, 2017
  • Imprint: Academic Press
  • eBook ISBN: 9780128099148
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780128099131

About the Editors

Romulo Romeu Nobrega Alves

Rômulo R.N. Alves is a biologist (Ph.D. in Zoology, 2006) with a keen interest in the connections between humans and animals. His areas of academic interest are ethnozoology and wildlife trade, uses and conservation, zootherapy, and human ecology. He has conducted ethnobiological research for the last ten years, which focuses on ethnozoology, particularly on fisheries, hunting, and wildlife trade and uses. As a result, he has published (as author or co-author) more than 150 scientific papers published in both national and international journals, 7 books and more than 50 book chapters. He coordinates projects on hunting and uses of wildlife in Brazil. In addition, he is one of the Editors-in-Chief of the journal Ethnobiology and Conservation and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. He also holds a Productivity scholarship provided by the National Council of Science and Technology (CNPq).

Affiliations and Expertise

Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Brazil

Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque

Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque is graduate at Biological Sciences from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1993), master's at Plant Biology (Taxonomy and Ethnobotany) from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1996) and PhD at Plant Biology (Ethnobotany) from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2001). Currently he is professor of Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil) where he coordinates the Laboratory of Applied and Theoretical Ethnobiology and teaches graduate students and postgraduates. He was president of the Brazilian Society of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology (2005-2008). He acts in the areas of ecological anthropology, ethnobotany, biodiversity conservation, applied botany, ethnopharmacology and natural products. He has a special interest in the comprehension of the factors that modulate the relation between people and plants on the interface of ecology and evolutive processes. He is member of editorial board of the Economic Botany (Associate Editor),Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (deputy editor), and Ethnobiology and Conservation (Chief Editor)

Affiliations and Expertise

Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

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