Ethnobiology through Song

Fernández‐Llamazares, Álvaro; Lepofsky, Dana

doi:10.2993/0278-0771-39.3.337

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“…Research, which engages with ILK, needs to also apply different innovative methods to deal with the complexity of ILK and to make insights from local and place-specific ILK useful for other regions of the world that also undergo processes of change. Possible methods could include the analysis of stories and songs that are a repository of ILK Cabeza 2018, Fernández-Llamazares andLepofsky 2019). Additionally, insights from more contextualized and place-based research modes such as transdisciplinary research might provide helpful approaches (Lang et al 2012, Balvanera et al 2017a.…”

Section: Challenges Of Researching Indigenous and Local Knowledge In Contexts Of Changementioning

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Indigenous and local knowledge in sustainability transformations research: a literature review

Lam¹,

Hinz²,

Lang³

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Scholars, politicians, practitioners, and civil society increasingly call for sustainability transformations to cope with urgent social and environmental challenges. In sustainability transformations research, understandings of transformations are often dominated by Western scientific knowledge. Through a systematic literature review, we investigated how indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is represented in peer-reviewed empirical scientific papers that apply ILK in contexts of transformation, transition, and change. Our results show, first, that all papers applied ILK to confirm and complement scientific knowledge in contexts of environmental, climate, social-ecological, and species change. Only four papers (5%) applied ILK to conduct research on transformations. Second, we identified four research clusters that apply ILK in contexts of transformation, transition, or change in (1) Arctic, (2) terrestrial, (3) coastal, and (4) grass and rangelands environments. These clusters are located along two axes: tropic to Arctic and marine to terrestrial. Finally, our results indicate that indigenous and local understandings of transformations are currently neglected in the scholarly transformations discourse. The reviewed papers do not focus on how indigenous peoples and local communities understand transformations, instead they focus on what changes indigenous peoples and local communities observe and describe, resulting from their daily experiences and activities. We argue that because of its in-depth local, place-based character, ILK can substantially contribute to a more plural understanding of transformations and the assessment of transformative change. We conclude that future research needs to investigate how to gain a more plural understanding of transformations that leads potentially to more inclusive actions toward more just, equitable, and sustainable futures on a local and global level.

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Section: Challenges Of Researching Indigenous and Local Knowledge In Contexts Of Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous and local knowledge in sustainability transformations research: a literature review

Lam¹,

Hinz²,

Lang³

et al. 2020

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“…Part of the success in our publication strategy has been the launching of 24 special issues since 2008 (Table 2), focused on off-the-beaten-track topics, and sitting bridges with other disciplines that share a synchronous focus with ethnobiology (e.g., Fernández-Llamazares and Lepofsky 2019;Ingram 2020;Quintana Morales et al 2017). Importantly, some compilations have pushed the boundaries of ethnobiology by focusing on uncharted topics and new subfields (e.g., Burgos et al 2019;Wall et al 2020), and others have helped at the cutting edge of modern ethnobiology.…”

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Seeking a More Ethical Future for Ethnobiology Publishing: A 40-Year Perspective from Journal of ethnobiology

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“…Past ethnobotanical knowledge is often hidden in literary works (Pardo-de-Santayana et al 2006;Ryan 2018;, including folksongs (Cardano and Herrero 2014;Herrero and Cardano 2015;Fernandez-Llamazares and Lepofsky 2019;Ivanova et al 2021;Fiser 2022). These literary texts can be treated as documents about folk traditions, although not necessarily reliable as historical document (Sorokin 2019).…”

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Ethnobotanical identification of mango (Mangifera indica L.) and other fruit trees mentioned in Old Javanese Ramayana (10th century Java, Indonesia)

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Abstract. Mulyanto D, Supangkat B, Nurseto HE, Iskandar J. 2023. Ethnobotanical identification of mango (Mangifera indica L.) and other fruit trees mentioned in Old Javanese Ramayana (10th century Java, Indonesia). Biodiversitas 24: 609-616. Among the 2778 stanzas in Old Javanese Ramayana (OJR), only 46 (1.6%) mentioned fruit trees. There are 63 Old Javanese phytonyms for fruit or fruit tree and only 12 (19%) of them are Sanskrit in origin. Fifty-six species from 44 genera and 26 families are identified, higher than the number of fruit trees carved in reliefs of Borobudur Temple. Of the 56 species, 13 are exotic, specifically from the Indian subcontinent. One of the exotic trees from India that has been naturalized in Java for centuries is Mangifera indica, which is the most often mentioned in the text. Meanwhile, 39 of them are expressly described as fruits that can be consumed raw as food/dessert. It was also found that there are four landscapes, namely hermitage, countryside, forest, and royal garden, which depict the presence of fruit trees. The forest is the landscape with the most mentioned fruit trees in its description. Furthermore, the fruit tree present in the depiction of all landscapes is Mangifera indica. The prevalence of mango trees in these landscapes is probably related to the mango fruit’s edibility as well as its symbolic and religious significance. Other fruit trees, such as Aegle marmelos, Garcinia xanthochymus, Phyllanthus emblica, and Tamarindus indica also have religious significance in Hinduism.

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Ethnobiology through Song

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Cited by 17 publications

References 122 publications

Indigenous and local knowledge in sustainability transformations research: a literature review

Indigenous and local knowledge in sustainability transformations research: a literature review

Seeking a More Ethical Future for Ethnobiology Publishing: A 40-Year Perspective from Journal of ethnobiology

Ethnobotanical identification of mango (Mangifera indica L.) and other fruit trees mentioned in Old Javanese Ramayana (10th century Java, Indonesia)

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