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An Introductory Course in Botany Or Biology (E.G., Botany 130, Biology 151), Or Permission of the Instructor ETHNOBOTANY COURSE SYLLABUS, FALL 2014 BOTANY/ANTHROPOLOGY/AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES 474 3 credits Lectures MWF 11:00 – 11:50 am in B-302 Birge Hall Prerequisite: an introductory course in botany or biology (e.g., Botany 130, Biology 151), or permission of the instructor. Instructor: Dr. Eve Emshwiller Office: 321 Birge Hall/Botany Dept. e-mail: [email protected] Office hours Mondays 12:00 to 12:45 or by appointment. Teaching Assistant: Alex McAlvay Office: 319 Birge Hall/Botany Dept. e-mail: [email protected] Office hours Mondays 3:00pm to 4:00pm or by appointment. Ethnobotany is the study of the interactions between human cultures and plants. As such it is an extremely broad field that crosses disciplinary boundaries. It includes economic botany, the study of the human uses of plants in all aspects of culture. However, ethnobotany also includes aspects that do not involve the practical uses of plants, such as linguistic/cognitive studies of how plants are perceived, named, and classified in various cultures, or studies of the history of human impacts on the environment. The course is intended as a broad survey of the kinds of plant-human interactions that are studied by ethnobotanists, and is aimed at upper-level undergraduates and early graduate students. Topics to be covered include: Ethnoecology / Traditional resource management Agriculture: origins, traditional, industrialized, sustainable Crop domestication, evolution, and conservation of genetic diversity Interactions of humans and plants in the past: archaeobotany, paleoethnobotany, ethnohistory Indigenous knowledge Quantitative ethnobotany and survey field methods Plants in symbolism, ritual, and religion Plants in material culture / fibers, plant structure related to uses Plants in nutrition and dietary patterns / Fermented foods Phytochemistry / Human uses of plant secondary metabolites / Foods as medicines Global movement of plants and human cultures Non-timber forest products / plants and markets Plants and Indigenous cultures of Wisconsin and of North America REQUIRED TEXTS: Nabhan, Gary Paul (1989) Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ. 225 pages Minnis Paul E. and Wayne J. Elisens (Editors) (2000) Biodiversity and Native America. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. 310 pages RECOMMENDED TEXT: Minnis, Paul E. (Editor) Ethnobotany: A Reader (2000) University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. 327 pages There will also be additional reading assignments that will be distributed in class and available through the class web site on Learn@UW. Attendance: I expect everyone enrolled in the class to attend all lectures and to participate in discussions. If you have to miss a class for any reason, you must contact me in advance. Attendance may be considered in your final grade. Academic honesty and reference citation format: I would prefer not to have to discuss plagiarism, but rather to emphasize our common (I hope) values of honesty, integrity, and ethics. However, sometimes some people do not know the accepted forms to acknowledge the sources of ideas, words, and quotes. I am sure you are aware that direct quotes should always be indicated by quotation marks or indentation, and the source provided. Even if you paraphrase, however, you must still indicate the source. Please see this resource provided by the Writing center: http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QuotingSources.html. In this class we will follow the citation format of the American Journal of Botany, which will be provided as a photocopy, and can also be found under “Literature Cited” on this page: http://www.amjbot.org/site/misc/ifora.xhtml#65Lcited with additional examples here: http://www.botany.org/ajb/ajb_Lit_Cited_Instructions.pdf . Evaluation: Percent of grade: 3 exams during semester @ 10% each 30% Cumulative final exam (take home) 10% Five short assignments @ 4% ea. 20% Term paper (including all stages and peer reviews) 28% 12 mini summaries (50 words!) of chapters of Nabhan 1989 book 12% Total 100% Graduate students: In compliance with new policies from the Graduate School, graduate students must be assessed separately from undergraduates. Graduate students will be required to do a brief presentation to the class, and also lead small group discussions of reading assignments, including contributing questions for the discussion. Grades will be allocated according to the following percentages: 90% and above ___________A 86-89.99%______________AB 80-85.99%_______________B 76-79.99%______________BC 70-75.99%_______________C 60-69.99%_______________D Below 60%_______________F Ethnobotany provisional class schedule Please note that this schedule is provisional and may change during the semester. Week Lecture Day# Date Topic or activity Due dates 1 1 W 03-Sep Introductions and logistics 2 F 05-Sep Introduction botany, survey methods 2 3 M 08-Sep Pile sort with fruits & vegetables 4 W 10-Sep Paired comparisons with fruits, ranking? 50 Words Prologue 5 F 12-Sep Continue survey methods, Anthropac results (?) 3 6 M 15-Sep Non-domesticates as food Critique #1 due 7 W 17-Sep Ethnoecology / Traditional Resource management 50 Words Ch 1 8 F 19-Sep Traditional Resource management 4 9 M 22-Sep Agriculture: traditional, industrialized, sustainable Critique #2 due 10 W 24-Sep Agriculture: traditional, industrialized, sustainable 50 Words Ch 2 11 F 26-Sep Crop domestication and evolution 5 12 M 29-Sep Crop domestication and evolution Gepts list due (extra credit) 13 W 01-Oct Alex McAlvay on Traditional Resource Management (TRM) 50 Words Ch 6 14 F 03-Oct Crop domestication examples 6 15 M 06-Oct Exam 1 Exam 1 16 W 08-Oct Agrobiodiversity Conservation 50 Words Ch 8 17 F 10-Oct Agrobiodiversity / Plants in material culture, fibers 7 18 M 13-Oct Archaeobotany-paleoethnobotany 19 W 15-Oct Archaeobotany-paleoethnobotany 50 Words Ch 5 20 F 17-Oct Sunflower debate Sunflower debate 8 21 M 20-Oct Phytochemistry / Dr. David Kiefer 22 W 22-Oct Phytochemistry, 2° metabolites and human uses 50 Words Ch 3 23 F 24-Oct Phytochemistry, 2° metabolites and human uses 9 24 M 27-Oct Medicinal plant module - Dr. Kiefer Medicinal plant module 25 W 29-Oct Plants in nutrition, dietary patterns 50 Words Ch 4 26 F 31-Oct Ethics, Intellectual property rights, biopiracy 10 27 M 03-Nov Share "Foods as Medicines" Foods as Medicines due 28 W 05-Nov Ethics, Intellectual property rights, biopiracy 50 Words Ch 10 (extra credit) 29 F 07-Nov Exam 2 Exam 2 11 30 M 10-Nov Fermentation 31 W 12-Nov Fermentation 50 Words Ch 9 32 F 14-Nov Ethnobotany of Indigenous peoples of Wisconsin 12 33 M 17-Nov Ethnobotany of Indigenous peoples of Wisconsin 34 W 19-Nov Manoomin harvest and the Anishinabe (Ojibwe) Nation 50 words Ch 7 35 F 21-Nov Non-Timber Forest Products / Plants and markets 13 36 M 24-Nov Mezcal video 37 W 26-Nov Plants in symbolism, ritual, religion (Video) 50 Words Ch 11 X F 28-Nov THANKSGIVING BREAK 14 38 M 01-Dec Global movement of plants and human cultures 39 W 03-Dec Global movement of plants and human cultures Term paper due 40 F 05-Dec Linguistics / ethnobiological classification 15 41 M 08-Dec Indigenous Knowledge / Local Knowledge / TEK 42 W 10-Dec Indigenous Knowledge / Local Knowledge / TEK 50 Words Ch 12 43 F 12-Dec Exam 3 Exam 3 Final W 17-Dec Final Exam 12:25pm, Take home exam due Take Home Final Due READING ASSIGNMENTS FOR ETHNOBOTANY (Version 2, 22 September 2014) REQUIRED READINGS OPTIONAL READINGS Introduction, definitions and historical view of ethnobotany: 3 Sept 2014 MINNIS, P. E. AND W. J. ELISENS. 2000. Introduction. Pages 3-25 in P. E. HARSHBERGER, J. W. 1896. The Purposes of Ethno-Botany. Botanical Minnis and W. J. Elisens, eds., Biodiversity and Native America. Gazette. 21(3): 146-154. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. FORD, RICHARD I. 1978. Ethnobotany: Historical diversity and PEARSALL, DEBORAH M. 2004. Chapter 1 Ethnobotany: The study of synthesis. pp. 33-49 in Ford, R. I. (ed.) The Nature and Status of Human-Plant Interrelationships (pp 1-11) Plants and People in Ethnobotany. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, Ancient Ecuador: The Ethnobotany of the Jama River Valley. University of Michigan, No 67. Ann Arbor, MI, USA. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. Belmont, CA, USA. MCCLATCHEY, W., A. PAUL, T. FLASTER & V. MCCLATCHEY. 1999. An MCCLATCHEY, WILL. 2007. Two Ethnobotanists. Journal of Evaluation of Educational Trends in Economic Botany. Centre for Ethnobotany Research and Applications. International Ethnomedicinal Education and Research: Ethnobotany Educational Publication Series 1:1-21. (Focus on definitions, from right side of page 4 through left side of page 5.) Collecting botanical specimens: 5 Sept 2014 NGUYEN, MY LIEN T. 2005 Cultivated Plant Collections from BYE, ROBERT A., JR. 1986. Voucher specimens in ethnobiological marketplaces. Ethnobotanical Research and Applications. 3:w5-16. studies and publications. J. of Ethnobiology 6:1–8. (What information can be gotten from vouchers but not photos?) Quantitative ethnobotany methods: 8 to 12 Sept 2014 The Anthropac 4 Methods Guide by Stephen P. Borgatti is posted on PURI , RAJINDRA K. AND CHRISTIAN R. VOGl (2005) A Methods Manual Moodle among the readings under the heading for “Quantitative for Ethnobiological Research and Cultural Domain Analysis With methods,” and is labeled "ANTHROPAC methods 7" on that list. The analysis using ANTHROPAC (unpublished manuscript shared with assigned readings are: permission of the authors) Chapter 1: pages 1-3 Introduction and Freelisting PURI, RAJINDRA K. AND CHRISTIAN R. VOGl 2007 Ethnobiology Cultural Section 2.2: pages 7-9 Single Pilesorts Domain Analysis Presentation (shared with permission of the Section 2.5: page 13 only Triads authors). Section 4.2: just up to the figure and the couple of paragraphs below QUINLAN, MARSHA 2005. Considerations for collecting freelists in the it (not section 4.2.1) Multidimensional Scaling field: Examples from ethnobotany.
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