Browsing by Author "Nazarea, Virginia"

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  • Catch the tiger by the tail: Some notes on method
    Nazarea, Virginia; Rhoades, Robert E.; Bontoyan, E.; Flora, G. (Washington, D.C.: Society for Applied Anthropology, 1999)
    Nazarea et al respond to criticisms over their use of modified Thematic Apperception Tests for eliciting culturally relevant indicators of sustainability and quality of life.
  • Conservation with a small c
    Nazarea, Virginia (Athens, GA: The Ethnoecology/Biodiversity Laboratory (EBL), Dept. of Anthropology, University of Georgia, 2005)
    DVD (13.22min) featuring initiatives for agrobiodiversity conservation, memory banking, and in situ conservation in the Philippines and Ecuador
  • Conserving biodiversity through use: Memory banking experience
    Nazarea, Virginia; Piniero, M. C. (2001)
    This presentation describes the memory banking methodology, program experiences, and results within the SANREM-Andes project. Based on the belief that indigenous knowledge about plants should accompany global efforts in genetic resource conservation and use, a method called "memory banking" has been designed and implemented in Nanegal and Cotacachi, Ecuador. This involves training of local youth collect culturally useful plants and the complete food system knowledge of their elders. While the plants and seeds are being locally propagated in community or household in situ gardens, young people acquire an appreciation of local biodiversity while increasing local use through seed selection, production, storage, and preparation. The Memory Banking protocol has been adopted widely by US seed saving groups, the International Potato Center, and other biodiversity conservation groups.
  • Costumbres del ayer, Tesoros del mañana: Plantas de herencia, conocimientos ancestrales y bancos de memoria
    Nazarea, Virginia; Piniero, M. C.; Rhoades, Robert E.; Alarcón, R.; Camacho, J. (Quito, Ecuador: Abya Yala Press, 2003)
    This resource provides memory banking protocol and teaching packet in Spanish for local students.
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    Countering through remembrance: Folk varieties, heirloom seeds and the promise of resilience
    Nazarea, Virginia (Ethnoecology/Biodiversity Laboratory, Dept. of Anthropology, the University of Georgia: Athens, Ga., 2005)
    Presented at Ecological Threats in the 21st Century Conference, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 4 July 2005.
  • Cuentos de la Creación y Resistencia
    Nazarea, Virginia; Guitarra, R.; Piniero, M. C.; Guitarra, C.; Rhoades, Robert E.; Alarcón, R. (Ediciones Abya-Yala: Quito, Ecuador, 2004)
    This compilation of stories about creation and resistance reveals the oral tradition of the local indigenous communities in the Cotacachi Canton. The stories are given in three languages: English, Spanish, and Quechua (Castellano, Inglés y Quechua)
  • Cultural Memory and Biodiversity
    Nazarea, Virginia (Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 1998)
    Virginia Nazarea addresses the incompleteness of preserving biodiversity of agricultural crops through seed and genebanks, suggesting that preserving the cultural memory associated with the conserved species is also important. She presents a method for "banking" the local knowledge of the plant species and the traditional cultivation techniques. Indigenous sweet potato cultivation in Bukidnon, Philippines is presented as a case study for interdependent conservation of both germplasm and culture. Her method, which combines ecological and cognitive data with oral history, has identifiable benefits for the local population, including the provision of alternatives to modern, large-scale agriculture systems.
  • Defining culturally relevant indicators: What are we waiting for?
    Nazarea, Virginia; Rhoades, Robert E.; Bontoyan, E.; Flora, G. (Washington, D.C.: Society for Applied Anthropology, 1999)
    Nazarea et al respond to comments made by Marlor et al regarding their paper on defining culturally relevant indicators in relation to natural resources.
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    Defining indicators which make sense to local people: Intra-cultural variation in perceptions of natural resources
    Nazarea, Virginia; Rhoades, Robert E.; Bontoya, E.; Flora, G. (Boston, Mass.: Society for Applied Anthropology, 1998)
    This article presents a method and a case study based on an applied ethnoecology approach and utilizing an adaptation of the Thematic Apperception Test. Pictures of scenes around the Manupali watershed in Bukidnon, Philippines, were used to elicit 51 informants'perceptions and assessments of different environmental features and agricultural practices. Informants' stories were scored based on dominant themes to identify indicators of sustainability and quality of life that are relevant for different ethnic, gender and age groups. These contextually sensitive indicators, the authors conclude, differ significantly from externally defined indicators and vary systematically as a function of socioeconomic and sociodemographic parameters. Taking culturally relevant indicators into consideration can help shape development trajectories that local people can identify with and benefit from in the short-and long-term.
  • Ethnoecology : Situated Knowledge/Located Lives
    Nazarea, Virginia (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999)
  • Forgotten futures: Scientific models versus local visions of land use change
    Rhoades, Robert E.; Nazarea, Virginia (Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2006)
    This chapter encourages development practitioners to consider the perspectives of local and indigenous peoples in regard to the idea of "sustainability". This division is highlighted through discussion of what science may consider sustainable practices and community visions for future development. Examples and supporting data are provided by SANREM data gathered during the Cotacachi project.
  • Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers: Marginality and Memory in the Conservation of Biological Diversity
    Nazarea, Virginia (Tuscon, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2005)
    This book describes the conservation of plant varieties through the care of home breeders and small growers. Offering both a scientific and human perspective in discussions of biodiversity and the tales and stories of the people who conserve and develop their unique seed varies, the book argues that these small growers are vital to biodiversity conservation in agriculture.
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    Integrating local voices and visions into the global mountain agenda
    Rhoades, Robert E. (Boulder, Colo.: International Mountain Society, 2000)
    This article assesses the recent successes in bringing global attention to mountain issues and evaluates the shortcomings of the political level progress. The authors describes the need for indigenous people to be given a voice in planning solutions for sustainable mountain development and suggests the potential for mountain-to-mountain initiatives to build connections and collaboration between mountain communities globally.
  • Local knowledge and memory in biodiversity conservation
    Nazarea, Virginia (Palo Alto, Ca.: Annual Reviews, 2006)
    For the past two decades, biodiversity conservation has been an area of concerted action and spirited debate. Given the centrality of biodiversity to the earth's life support system, its increasing vulnerability is being addressed in international conservation as well as in research by anthropologists and other social scientists on the cultural, economic, political, and legal aspects of human engagement with biological resources. The concepts of biodiversity as a social construct and historical discourse, of local knowledge as loaded representation and invented tradition, and of cultural memory as selective reconstruction and collective political consciousness have also been the foci of recent critical reflection.
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    Looking at the landscape through local lenses: Integrating community values and variation in indicators of sustainability
    Nazarea, Virginia (Watkinsville, Ga.: SANREM CRSP, 2001)
    This brief illustrates an innovative tool that enables researchers to elicit culturally relevant indicators, many of which are non-monetary and non-material. But it also shows how qualitative parameters can be quantified for evaluative and comparative purposes. The analysis of quantified data makes it possible to unveil and reflect underlying patterns of intracultural diversity in environmental assessments.
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    Native perspectives on plant germplasm conservation
    Nazarea, Virginia (Ethnoecology/Biodiversity Laboratory, Dept. of Anthropology, the University of Georgia, Athens, 2005)
    Invited Presentation at Society for Advancement of Native Americans and Chicanos in Science, Denver, Co., 30 September 2005
  • Recipes for Life: Counsel, customs, and cuisine from the Andean hearth
    Nazarea, Virginia; Camacho, J.; Parra, N. (Ediciones Abya-Yala: Quito, Ecuador, 2006)
    Daily sustenance tends to be overlooked as we focus our attention on big, important issues such as development, conservation, and globalization. And yet what sustains people at the most basic level are identity, memory, and a sense of place anchored in the texture and aroma of everyday life. To conserve biological and cultural diversity in the face of powerful and homogenizing forces, we need to look at local knowledge and practices in all their wonderful manifestations. From the hearts and hearths of the Ecuadorian Andes, this book interweaves the sayings, customs, and recipes that relate to life's cycles and its seasons. This collection highlights remembrance of the past, vitality of the present, and persistence into the future. (About Recipes for Life)
  • Recolección de plantas y conocimientos ancestrales: Un programa de enseñanza y capacitación
    Nazarea, Virginia; Piniero, M. C.; Rhoades, Robert E.; Alarcón, R.; Camacho, J. (Quito, Ecuador: Abya Yala Press, 2003)
    Recolección de Plantas y Conocimientos Ancestrales is a teaching curriculum for secondary school teachers who work with students to document and conserve their own heritage, which is in this case refers to the unique and indigenous plants, and the associated knowledge older persons possess.