Treading & threading memories: a personal encounter with forest and people in Southern Venezuela

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Egleé L Zent¹ 

[1] Laboratory Human Ecology, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Panamericana km 11 Ado 20632, Altos de Pipe, edo. Miranda, Venezuela

关键词: Evocations;    Amerindian;    Jotï;    Amazon;    Fieldwork;    Ethnobotany;    Ethnoecology;   

Others  :  862216
DOI  :  10.1186/1746-4269-9-55

 received in 2013-07-30, accepted in 2013-08-02,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

This brief essay, which represents the third editorial of the series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field", captures a few memories of the author's first fieldwork in the Venezuelan rainforest. It is a collage of objects, subjects, feelings, spaces, and events that pendulate in spheres of meaning straddling between the author's identities as both a student and a woman. The author's evocations of fifteen years ago are diluted in lasting reflections about what could be ethnoecology embraced by spaces of interactions and associations between organisms and their surroundings.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Zent.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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