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Current Anthropology is a
transnational journal devoted to research
on humankind. The journal defines such
research in the broadest possible way, to
encompass all scholarship on human
cultures and on the human, or closely
related, species. It therefore makes a
strong commitment to a comprehensive view
of anthropology, and provides a forum for
active scholarly critique as a major
means by which to achieve this view. To
this end, all major articles undergo the
CA© treatment: commentators, selected
internationally, write critiques that
appear in the same issue as the article,
along with a reply from the author.
Contact: Richard G.
Fox, Editor, Current Anthropology,
Department of Anthropology, Campus
Box 1186, Washington University, One
Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri
63130-4899, USA; Tel. +1.314.9359016,
Fax +1.314.9359017, E-mail ca@artsci.wustl.edu Website http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~anthro/ca/
Courrier de la Plančte is a
journal devoted to the economy of
development, mainly to agriculture,
environment and international commerce.
In addition to social and economic
information related to these subjects,
the journal gives opportunity of
participation to people involved in
politics or field activities. Contact:
Nathalie Lavillat, Courrier de la
Plančte, 3191 Route de Mende, B.P. 5056,
34033 Montpelier, Cedex 1, France.
Publishers
SAGE Publications is a leading
international educational and
professional publisher of books,
journals, newsletters and related
materials. Dedicated to the widespread
dissemination of information, SAGE
continues a tradition of team spirit
motivated by a strong belief in education
- providing knowledge, informed by
research, across many disciplines and
professions. The first publication to
carry the SAGE imprint appeared in 1965.
Since then SAGE has expanded its
operations to three continents.
Considerable thought and time is devoted
to finding authorities on the cutting
edge of their respective fields and to
developing their ideas into accessible
and illuminating publications.
Contact: SAGE
Publications Ltd., 6 Bonhill Street,
London C2A 4PU, UK; Tel
+44.171.3740645, Fax +44.171.3748741,
E-mail market@sagepub.co.uk, Website http:// www.sagepub.co.uk
Internet
H-NILAS is an internet discussion
forum sponsored by the Nature in Legend
and Story Society (NILAS). NILAS is a
group of people dedicated to
understanding relationships between human
beings and the natural world, through the
mediation of stories, poems, legends,
pictures and other cultural products.
H-NILAS intends to foster the exchange of
ideas and materials among scholars,
storytellers, artists, archivists,
librarians, public historians and
students. H-NILAS is owned by H-Net, an
international network of scholars in the
humanities and social sciences. H-NET
sponsors dozens of E-mail lists and
Websites in a variety of disciplines and
fields.
To subscribe, send
an E-mail message to LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu according to the following
model: SUBSCRIBE H-NILAS firstname
last-name, institution. Contact:
E-mail h-net@h-net.msu.edu Website http://h-net.msu.edu
People and
Plants bookshelf
Alexiades, M.N., editor. 1996. Selected
Guidelines for Ethnobotanical Research: A
Field Manual. New York, New York
Botanical Garden. Interdisciplinary in
scope, this manual addresses the
biological, ecological, and
anthropological aspects of ethnobotanical
research, focusing on basic concepts and
techniques.
Contact: Scientific
Publications Department, The New York
Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
10458-5126, USA; Tel. +1.718.8178721,
Fax +1.718.8178842, E-mail scipubs@nybg.org Website http://www.acnatsci.org/scipubs
Berlin, B. 1992. Ethnobiological
Classification: Principles of
Categorization of Plants and Animals in
Traditional Societies. Princeton,
Princeton University Press. Brent Berlin
examines the regularities in the
classification and naming of plants and
animals among peoples of traditional,
nonliterate societies.
Contact: Princeton
University Press, 41 William Street,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA;
Tel. +1.609.2584900, Fax
+1.609.2586305, E-mail leslie@pupress.princeton.edu Website http://www.pupress.princeton.edu
Cotton, C.M. 1996. Ethnobotany:
Principles and Applications.
Chichester, Wiley. Cath Cotton describes
the history of the interactions between
plants and people and the concepts,
methodology and future direction of
ethnobotanical study.
Contact John Wiley
and Sons Ltd, Baffins Lane,
Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1UD, UK;
Tel. +44.1243.779777, Website http://www.wiley.com
Martin, G.J. 1995. Ethnobotany: A
Methods Manual. London, Chapman and
Hall. The first in a series of practical
manuals in plant conservation sponsored
by WWF, UNESCO and the Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew, this manual gives clear
descriptions of the skills and methods
most commonly employed by ethnobotanists.
Bahasa Malaysia and Chinese editions were
published in 1998, and a Spanish edition
is in preparation. Originally published
by Chapman and Hall, the series is now
handled by Stanley Thornes.
Contact: Stanley
Thornes (Publishers) Ltd,
Ellenborough House, Wellington
Street, Cheltenham GL50 1YW, UK; UK
Customer Services Department, Tel.
+44.1242.267267, Fax +44.1242.253695,
E-mail cservices@thornes.co.uk; Export Customer Services
Department, Tel. +44.1242.267283, Fax
+44.1242.253695, E-mail export@thornes.co.uk
Foundations
The Jacobs Research Funds is a grant
program supporting anthropological
research (sociocultural or linguistic in
content) on the indigenous peoples of
Canada, Mexico, and mainland United
States, including Alaska, with a focus on
the Pacific Northwest. Grants are given
for work on problems in language, social
organization, political organization,
religion, mythology, music, other arts,
psychology and folk science.
Contact: Museum
representative, Jacobs Research
Funds, Whatcom Museum, 121 Prospect
Street, Bellingham, Washington 98225,
USA; Tel +1.360.6766981, E-mail Jacobs@cob.org
Resource
centers
The Expedition Advisory Centre was
founded by the Royal Geographical Society
and the Young Explorers Trust, and
provides an information and training
service for those planning an overseas
expedition. The Centre has produced
Expedition Field Techniques: People
Oriented Research, a handbook that
provides a basic introduction to people
oriented research, with an emphasis on
the approaches and techniques available
when on expedition.
Contact: Royal
Geographical Society, 1 Kensington
Gore, London SW7 2AR, UK; Tel.
+44.171.5812057.
The Centro de Estudios Farmacológicos
y Botánicos (CEFYBO) has been conducting
ethnobotanical work since 1975, focusing
on traditional knowledge of medicinal and
food plants. Researchers have been
working mainly with indigenous groups of
the Gran Chaco, in Paraguay and
Argentina, and also with peasant groups
in the northwest and northeast of
Argentina. The Centro has a herbarium
containing about 10,000 specimens of
useful plants gathered from markets and
communities, as well as a collection of
ethnobotanical articles. It publishes
Parodiana, a journal dedicated to botany,
in which articles on economic botany and
ethnobotany are often featured.
Contact: Pastor
Arenas, CEFYBO, Serrano 665, 1414
Buenos Aires, Argentina; Tel.
+54.1.8557194 or 8557199, Fax
+54.1.8562751, E-mail etno@cefybo.edu.ar
Databases
The International Legume Database
& Information Service (ILDIS) holds
the world database on legumes. The
information in the database is available
in a variety of printed or electronic
forms. The ILDIS information system
provide lists of legume species indexed
by accepted scientific names, synonyms
and common names, with uniformity ensured
by an international network of legume
specialists. ILDIS also produces a
newsletter designed to keep people within
the project and other people interested
in legumes in touch with what is
happening at the different ILDIS centers
and the coordinating centre.
Contact: Sue
Hollis, ILDIS Coordinating Centre,
Department of Biology, University of
Southampton, Southampton SO16 7PX,
UK; Tel +44.170.3592444, Fax
+44.170.3594269, E-mail ildis@soton.ac.uk
Suppliers
Forestry Suppliers, Inc., started in
1949 as a small forestry supply business
with a one-page price list, is now a
worldwide, direct-mail supplier for
natural resource professionals. Its
annual catalog currently consists of 576
pages featuring thousands of products for
professionals in forestry, environmental
science, education and many other fields.
Contact: Forestry
Suppliers, Inc., P.O. Box 8397,
Jackson, MS 39284-8397, USA;
International Sales Tel.
+1.601.3543565, Fax +1.601.3555126,
E-mail fsi@forestry-suppliers.com Website http://www.forestry-suppliers.com
Herbarium Supply Company, established
in 1965, is a leading source in the
United States for herbarium paper and
related supplies. Universities, museums,
colleges, botanical gardens and
researchers around the world use its
products.
Contact: Casper
Offutt, Herbarium Supply Company,
3483 Edison Way, Menlo Park, CA
94025-1813, USA; Tel. +1.650.3668868,
Fax +1.650.3665492, E-mail herbsupp@bjt.net Website http://www.herbariumsupply.com
Training
programs
Since the Committee for the National
Institute for the Environment (CNIE) was
established, over 9,000 scientists,
educators, former elected officials, and
environmental, business and civic leaders
have joined in an unprecedented
participatory process to develop a new
concept for high quality environmental
science. The result of their work is a
set of principles embodied in a proposal
for a National Institute for the
Environment. In collaboration with the
Center for Conservation Biology at Rice
University, CNIE has launched the on-line
Directory of Higher Education
Environmental Programs to support the
tremendous student demand for new
environmental programs at institutions of
higher learning.
Contact: Peter D.
Saundry, Executive Director,
Committee for the National Institute
for the Environment, 725 K Street,
NW, Suite 212, Washington, DC
20006-1401, USA; Tel. +1.202.5305810,
Fax +1.202.6284311, E-mail cnie@cnie.orgWebsite http://www.cnie.org
The WWF ICDP Training Programme was
initiated in 1995 with funding from the
UK Overseas Development Administration
(ODA, now the Department for
International Development, DFID) and
WWF-UK. This three-year training program
seeks to increase the capacity for WWF
and its partners (NGO and government) in
the Asia/Pacific region for designing and
implementing integrated conservation and
development initiatives. Three regional
training institutions worked closely with
the ICDP Training Programme during the
design and implementation of the
training. These were the International
Institute of Rural Reconstruction in the
Philippines, the Regional Community
Forestry Training Center in Thailand and
the Wildlife Institute of India. All
three institutions have adopted aspects
of the training approach and contents of
this program and now offer courses based
on it. A trainer’s manual, which
contains detailed facilitation notes for
many of the training activities developed
through the workshops, has been
published.
Contact: Sejal
Worah, WWF ICDP Training Programme,
Asian Institute of Technology, PO Box
4, Khlong Luang 12120, Thailand; Tel.
+66.2.5246128, Fax +66.2.5246134,
E-mail wwficdp@ait.ac.th
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