Society of Ethnobiology

2017 Conference Abstracts

Session: Plenary Session: Elder Talks & Welcome
First Author	Abstract Title
Deer , Kanahsohon Kevin	Opening and Welcome
Simon , Serge	Grand Chief of Kanesatake Serge Simon will speak
Winters , Nellie	Elder Nellie Winters speaks on the importance of home
Evans , Annie	Elder Annie Evans speaks on connections to family places

Session: Birds, Plants and Other People: Ecological and Cultural Relationships Across Species Boundaries, Part I
First Author	Abstract Title
Hecht , David - University of Georgia (UGA), International Society of Ethnobiology (ISE)	A Kingdom of Deities: Spiritual Landscapes, Protected Areas, and the Role of Conservation Mapping in Bhutan
Vásquez-Dávila , Marco Antonio - Instituto Tecnológico del Valle de Oaxaca	Avian Metamorphosis: Birds, Humans and Deities in Mesoamerican Mythology
Herron , Scott - Ferris State University	Bineseewug: The relationship of thunderbeings and thunderbirds to the Anishinaabek Great Lakes Native American people
Whaanga , Hemi - Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato	Indigenous methods of naming avifauna and its relevance in biodiversity reporting, monitoring and mapping

Session: Engaging Communities & Ethics in Context: The Process of Initiating Ethnobiological Fieldwork, Part I
First Author	Abstract Title
Flores , Fabio - Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y en Ciencias Sociales, UNAM	Towards a respectful ethnoarchaeological practice: zoo archaeological materials and biocultural heritage.
Desrosiers , Sarah - University of British Columbia	The Berry Project – Insight on conducting research in the Canadian Arctic
Medinaceli , Armando - Latin American Society of Ethnobiology	Taking an early first step for ethnobiological fieldwork
Shebitz , Daniela - Kean University	Indigenous Knowledge and the Search for Plant Medicine: A Teaching Case Study Involving Prior Informed Consent with the Maya ICBG
Fowler , Cynthia - Wofford	Initiating Research on Igniting Fires in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the Autumn 2016 Conflagration

Session: Historical Ecology & Ethnoecology, Part I
First Author	Abstract Title
Smith , Nicole - Hakai Institute	Ancient Mariculture in British Columbia: Documenting the Past for the Future, Part 2.
Armstrong , Chelsey Geralda - Simon Fraser University	Biodiversity and Functional Traits Reflect Indigenous Forest Gardens in the Pacific Northwest
Oberndorfer , Erica - Labrador Institute	Forgotten fires? A people’s history of fire in Labrador
Savo , Valentina - Simon Fraser University	Observations of climate change in the Heiltsuk territory (British Columbia, Canada)
Eloheimo , Marja - The Evergreen State College	Suomalaiset Marjat (Finnish Berries): A Role for Heritage in Cultivating Ecocultural Relationality
Arias-Bustamante , José - University of British Columbia	Learning from the experts: A case study of adaptation to change in the context of Mapuche People

Session: Ethnomedicines, Part I
First Author	Abstract Title
Stiegler , Christopher - University of Arkansas	Gastrointestinal Health as a Stimulus for Native American Attraction to Medicinal Asteraceae and Further Implications for Human Evolution.
Cannon , Carrie - Hualapai Tribe	Grand Foods of the Grand Canyon; A Nutritional Analysis of Traditional Food Plants of the Hualapai Tribe
Teixidor-Toneu , Irene - University of Reading	The practice of frigg: sociocultural changes affect traditional treatments in southern Morocco
Tareau , Marc-Alexandre - UMR LEEISA (Université de Guyane/CNRS)	Phyto-Pharmacopoeias in Motion: An Ethnobotanical Approach to Geographical and Cultural Circulations on the French Guiana coastal region.

Session: Role of Ethnobiological Traditional Knowledge in Conservation of Biodiversity
First Author	Abstract Title
Puri , Rajindra - Centre for Biocultural Diversity, University of Kent	Ethnobiology and human adaptation to biodiversity change: concepts and methods applied to a study of herder responses to Lantana camara L.
Molnár , Zsolt - MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary	Herders, farmers, conservationists and ecologists working together for better grassland management in Hungary
Linares , Edelmira - Institute of Biology, National Autonomous University of Mexico	Documentation of traditional foods and agrobiodiversity of the Rarámuri (Chihuahua, Mexico) by means of videos: pinole and esquiate derived from maize (Zea mays)
Orozco , Jessica - Hualapai Tribe Department of Natural Resources	Post-Fire Monitoring on the Hualapai Reservation, Peach Springs, Arizona
Smith , Tyler - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada	“What our ancestors planted, it’s good to bring here”: Retracing the shared travels of rhubarb and Inuit in Labrador

Session: Solidarity, Allyship, & Justice in an "Applied" Ethnobiology, Part I
First Author	Abstract Title
Blazina , Ashley - University of Washington	Whitewashed Time: How Academic Calendars and Funding Duration Affect Meaningful Cultural Work and Exchange
Emshwiller , Eve - University of Wisconsin-Madison	Making research findings relevant and accessible in the communities where we work: our experience creating agrobiodiversity catalogs in the Peruvian Andes
Reo , Nicholas - Dartmouth College	The Indigenous Confluence Project
Hunn , Eugene S. - University of Washington	Place Names as Moral Deeds to Traditional Homelands
Sault , Nicole - Sally Glean Center	How Condors Led Me to Mining and Water Issues: Walking in Solidarity with Latin American Communities

Session: Zooarcheaology
First Author	Abstract Title
Wolverton , Steve - University of North Texas, Department of Geography & the Environment	Encountering Contemporary Pastoralism via Zooarchaeology: New Data from the Argentine Andes
Main Johnson , Leslie - Athabasca University	Plants, Land and Language–Gwich’in Elders’ Perspectives on Traditional Living and well-being
Grindle , Dalyn - University of Wyoming	Zooarchaeology of the Native American Sturgeon Fishery in Coastal Oregon, 350 BC to AD 1150
Forth , Gregory - Dept of Anthropology, University of Alberta	Humans and dugongs in eastern Indonesia

Session: Archaeobotany
First Author	Abstract Title
Mueller , Natalie - Washington University in St. Louis	Agricultural Communities and the Rise of Cahokia: Evidence from Seeds
Mathews , Darcy - University of Victoria	Savannahs of Living Fuel: The Coast Salish Management of Douglas-fir Bark Fuel
Goldfield , Anna - Boston University	Using Nutritional Ecology and Energetic Modeling to Reexamine the Role of Plants in Neanderthal Diet in Southwest France

Session: Community Dynamics, Identity, and Natural Resources
First Author	Abstract Title
Olofsson , Ebba - Champlain Regional College/Concordia University	Gender Inequality in Swedish Legislation of Sámi Reindeer Herding.
Thiel , Amanda - Washington State University	Q'eqchi' Maya Home Gardens
O'Sullivan , Megan	Gullah Roots of Southern Cuisine
Stepp , John Richard - University of Florida	Towards An Ethnobiological Theory of Biodiversity and Sociolinguistic Diversity
Montanari , Bernadette - School of Earth, Society and Environment, University of Illinois, Champaign	Shifting priorities for the inclusion of rural women in the initiatives of the Green Moroccan Plan
Nazarea , Virginia - University of Georgia	Tasting Love and Legacy

Session: Ethnobotany, Part I
First Author	Abstract Title
Best , Sunshine - Tulane University	Ethnobotanical Networks Thru Community Gardens
Garineaud , Clément - Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris	Ethnoecology during crisis: adaptation of seaweed harvester's knowledge and practices
Heckelsmiller , Cynthiann - Washington State University	Exploring the children's domain of edible plant knowledge in a Maasai village
Howe , Nimachia	Naapi and Niche Construction: Traditional stories discuss how organisms direct the shaping of their environments
Flachs , Andrew - Heidelberg University	Squeezing Agrobiodiversity: Herbicides and High Density Cropping on GM Cotton Fields in Telangana, India

Session: Food & Water Sovereignty
First Author	Abstract Title
Dolan , Jessica - McGill University	Our Sustenance, the plants, and the trees: cultural persistence wild and heirloom food species in Haudenosaunee communities
Monterrubio Solís , Constanza - UNAM, Becaria del Programa de Becas Post doctorales UNAM-CIMSUR	Bringing joy back to the table: food traditions’ dynamics in two different regions of Chiapas, Mexico.
Dixon , Anna - USF St. Petersburg	Coontie: From Staff of Life to Threatened Species in Florida
Salick , Jan - Missouri Botanical Garden	Narragansett Food Sovereignty Initiative and Climate Change
Mt.Pleasant , Jane - Cornell University	Indigenous Food Sovereignty Requires Diversity and Radical Natural Resource Management

Session: Birds, Plants and Other People: Ecological and Cultural Relationships Across Species Boundaries, Part II
First Author	Abstract Title
Park , Karen - University of Pittsburgh	Might a Flight of Swallows a Covey of Concerned Characters Beget?
Ignace , Marianne - Simon Fraser University	Secwepemc Loons as Symbols of Power and Transformation
Sault , Nicole - Sally Glean Center	Vulture and Condor Bringing Seeds: Relationships Embodied Through Oral Traditions in Costa Rica and the Andean Altiplano

Session: Ethnobotany, Part II
First Author	Abstract Title
Antonio , Thomas - Institute of American Indian Arts	Indigenous Biotechnology/Corn Nixtamalization
Gagnon , Terese - Syracuse University	Seed Memory/Body Memory: The (Re)production of Karen More-Than-Human Culture Across Borders
MBUGUA , PAUL - Member of Society of Economic Botany, Kenya Chapter	THE SANSEVIERIAS ETHNOBOTANY
Sato , Yasuaki - Osaka Sangyo University, Japan	Social Aspects of the Maintenance of Banana Landrace Diversity in Central Uganda
Bisulca , Christina - Detroit Institute of Arts	Dye Components in Insect Lac (Shellac) of the American Southwest

Session: Historical Ecology & Ethnoecology, Part II
First Author	Abstract Title
Greening , Spencer - Gitga'at First Nation	Historical Ecology of Laxgalts’ap – Remembering Indigenous Knowledge in a Gitga’at Cultural Keystone Place
Toniello , Ginevra - Simon Fraser University, Hakai Institute	The Ecological and Cultural Effects of Clam Gardens on Northern Quadra Island, British Columbia
Zeng , Lily - Yale University	Regeneration as a Socioecological Process in Sacred Groves of Xishuangbanna, Southwest China
Hagwood , Austin - University of Cambridge	Seeing REDD: The Political Ecology of Logging in Papua New Guinea

Session: Stewardship & Education
First Author	Abstract Title
Anderson , E. N. - University of California, Riverside	Conservation Ideology Revisited: Northwest Coast Myths that Teach Environmental Care
Tom , Whitley - Southern Utah University Student	The Stories of the Past: Creating a relationship with the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and Cedar Breaks National Monument to help preserve cultural history
Paul , Andrew - Karen Environmental and Social Action Network	Ethnoecology for Peace: Karen Environmental Relations and the Salween Peace Park in Karen State, Burma
Lepofsky , Dana - Simon Fraser University, Hakai Institute	Exploring Hauyat: A Cultural Keystone Place of the Heiltsuk, British Columbia, Canada
Walshaw , Sarah - Senior Instructor, Department of History, Simon Fraser University.	Teaching Food History Against the Grain

Session: Engaging Communities & Ethics in Context: The Process of Initiating Ethnobiological Fieldwork, Part II
First Author	Abstract Title
McCune , Letitia - BotanyDoc, LLC	Academic Societies, Ethnobiology and Ethics Codes
Porter , Caitlin - Saint Mary's University, Ecology of Plants in Communities lab	Barrens in Nova Scotia: Biodiversity, Long-term Dynamics, Plants and People
Ferenczi , Natasha-Kim - SFU	Composing Plant Agents: Configuring Conservation Around People and Plant Relationships
Davy , Damien - UMR LEEISA (CNRS)	Tackling the challenges of the implementation of ABS procedures in France: the case of Teko ethnobotany in French Guiana.

Session: Ethnomedicines, Part II
First Author	Abstract Title
Musch , Tilman - University of Bayreuth (Germany)	Herbal medicine for Naja nigricollis bites in Western Niger: Symptomatic treatments and possible antidotes.
Gardener , Erica	Narcotics, Empire, and the Marijuana Frontier
Bye , Robert - Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Toronjil medicinal plant complex: ethnobotany and domestication of Agastache (Lamiaceae) in Mexico

Session: Solidarity, Allyship, & Justice in an "Applied" Ethnobiology, Part II
First Author	Abstract Title
Baker , Janelle - McGill University; Athabasca University	For Profit or Print: Reflecting on How to be a Useful Ethnobiologist
McAlvay , Alex - University of Wisconsin-Madison	Barriers, resources, questions: Moving forward as an advocate-academic
Fowler , Catherine S. - University of Nevada	Applied Ethnobiology, Advocacy and the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe of Death Valley, California
Armstrong , Chelsey Geralda - Simon Fraser University	A Cartography of Struggle: Cultural Landscapes and Contested Archaeology in Northwest British Columbia
Rapinski , Michel - Université de Montréal and Université de Guyane	Representation of traditional medicine between community members and healthcare providers in Quebec’s First Nations communities.

Session: The IPBES Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services: Calling upon the contribution of Ethnobiology
First Author	Abstract Title
Molnár , Zsolt - MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary	A new global biodiversity and ecosystems services assessment: what do ethnobiologists and traditional knowledge holders could benefit from it?
Bond , Matthew - University of Hawai'i	Incorporating biocultural relationships into climate change modeling
Ulicsni , Viktor - Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, Hungary	Traditional ecological knowledge of wild animals: an underestimated opportunity for knowledge co-production for biodiversity assessments and conservation
White , John - Tulane	Crop Wild Relative Conservation In Situ: The Ethics and Benefits of Local Indigenous Knowledge
Brondizio , Eduardo - Indiana University - Bloomington	Operationalizing Indigenous and Local Knowledge and Practices (ILK) in the Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of IPBES

Session: Poster Session
First Author	Abstract Title
Johnson , Emily S. - Boston University	Elite Feasting and Monumental Dedication at Early Phrygian Gordion, Central Turkey
Quinlan , M.B. - Washington State University	Ethnobiology of East African Animal Medication and Antibiotic Resistance among Maasai, Arusha and Chagga People and their Animals
Witeck , Kayla	Ethnobotanical and economic importance of the genus Passiflora
Ruggiero , Juliet - University of the Virgin Islands	Ethnobotanical Pedagogy for Undergraduates: An example from the University of the Virgin Islands
Arbogast , Drew - The Ohio State University	How Mobile are Phytoliths in the Laboratory? An Examination of Cross-Contamination during the Extraction Process
O'Sullivan , Megan - Southern Utah University	Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Food and Nutrition for Elementary Aged Children in Iron County, Utah
Wright , Roy - Concordia University, Montreal	Northeastern Algonquian and Iroquoian conifer taxonomy
Wade , Kali - Boston University	Phytolith Analysis of Cumbria’s Prehistoric Populations
Kachko , Liza - Independent Researcher	Revitalizing Traditional Plant Knowledge in Coastal Louisiana: Pointe au Chien Indian Tribe Medicinal Plant Garden Project
Hamersley Chambers , Fiona - University of Victoria	The 'Lost' Gardens: Heiltsuk cultivation of berry resources on British Columbia's central coast