Felice Wyndham

University of Oxford | OX · School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography

Este artículo describe las prácticas contemporáneas de gestión del paisaje en una comunidad Rarámuri del norte de México. Apoyada en los conceptos Rarámuris, investigo sus paisajes desde un punto relacional en vez de instrumental, dejando a un lado el vocabulario de ‘manejo de recursos’ en el cual el paisaje se figura aparte de y manipulado por los...

In northern Mexico, Sierra Tarahumara rock art sites are places of power, danger, reward, and transformation in both Rarámuri and mestizo worlds. Situated in places rich in symbolism, relationship, affect, and embodied history, the semiotics of rock art are interpreted and re-invented by contemporary Rarámuri, non-Rarámuri locals, tourists, and ant...

This paper investigates social-environmental factors contributing to differential ethnobotanical expertise among children in Rarámuri (Tarahumara) communities in Chihuahua, Mexico, to explore processes of indigenous ecological education and epistemologies of research. One hundred and four children from two schools (one with a Ráramuri knowledge cur...

Para que la etnobiología como disciplina logre una mayor influencia científica y social, es necesario que los etnobiólogos hagan un balance colectivo de la misma. En 2008, se realizó un estudio sobre los miembros de la Sociedad Internacional de Etnobiología (ISE), Sociedad de Etnobiología (SoE) y de la Sociedad de Botánica Económica (SEB), con el f...

This special issue of GeoHealth, entitled Rhythms of the Earth: Ecological Calendars and Anticipating the Anthropogenic Climate Crisis, is a transdisciplinary articulation of a methodology of hope to confront the multiple injustices of the Anthropocene. One of the greatest challenges of the climate crisis is the lack of predictability at the scale...

The ways people think, feel, speak about, and act in and with environments are inextricably intertwined with the well-being of other living things, including birds. We report on the kinds of messages contained in 598 examples of locally-defined signs from 498 bird taxa from 169 sources and 123 ethnolinguistic groups. Using Peirce’s three sign forms...

2022. International Ornithological Congress. During times of health or social crisis, ethno-ornithological fieldwork with local communities and their biocultural heritage may be challenging. Scientists and local bird experts need to collaborate to create innovative solutions to solve logistics and research issues, including data quality, research-a...

The Convention on Biological Diversity is defining the goals that will frame future global biodiversity policy in a context of rapid biodiversity decline and under pressure to make transformative change. Drawing on the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, we argue that transformative change requires the foregrounding of Indigenous people...

Multilingualism is integral to the human condition. Hinging on the concept of Creative Multilingualism – the idea that language diversity and creativity are mutually enriching – this timely and thought-provoking volume shows how the concept provides a matrix for experimentation with ideas, approaches and methods. The book presents four years of joi...

Mountain communities that use local foods are more likely to be foodsecure over time. However, historical and contemporary policies have largely homogenized food systems by replacing diverse local foodstuffs with less diverse market-based foods. These transformations often mean that nutrition-related chronic diseases increase. We explored current a...

Around the world, people notice birds, talk about birds, and learn from birds. Birds are identified as signs, messengers, augurs, teachers, and beings that can affect one's life and livelihood. The significations of birds vary across cultures and shift over time, but not in entirely arbitrary ways. In this review of published literature from the Hu...

The authors apply longue durée and semiotic approaches to a case study of flood management in the American Midwest to critique the suggestion that naming the current geological epoch the ‘Anthropocene’ might encourage global environmental sustainability. It is unlikely that the Anthropocene moniker has the symbolic power to correct ecomyopia, which...

span>Foods and foodscapes structure and inform our experiences as ethnobiologists and ethnographers, the way we interact with and learn from teachers in study sites, and how relations between peoples and between people and landscapes unfold over time. This short memoir essay revisits my education in foodscapes with the Ayoreo community of Jesudi in...

For many indigenous peoples, the contributions of wild edible plants go well beyond nourishment; they are often also used as dye and medicines, as well as markers of identity. However, historical and contemporary processes of land grabbing, forest loss, acculturation, and lifestyle changes may erode the transmission of plant knowledge to new genera...

RESUMEN.– El proyecto Archivo Mundial de Etno-ornitología (The Ethno–ornithology World Archive, EWA) busca involucrar, a nivel mundial, a diversos miembros de pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales, sectores público y privado, líderes comunitarios y ornitólogos. Esta integración se dará a través de una base de datos digital para la documentación,...

Book reviewed in this article: The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living . Nora Haenn and Richard R. Wilk, eds.

As we enter the 21st Century with the words "globalization," "world development" and "global extinctions" ringing in our ears, it behooves us to revitalize a concept that has lain dormant for a while. The "noosphere," broadly interpreted, is the world transformed by humans and human thought. It is produced and maintained by increasing complexity of...

1. Seeds of two wild populations, a crop type (canola) and reciprocal crop-wild hybrids of Brassica rapa were exposed to a factorial combination of light, nutrient and stratification treatments in a growth chamber study to test differences in germination responses to environmental cues. The effects of seed density and nutrient treatment on germinat...