Talk:Ethnobiology

Article Tagged for Clean Up
This would seem to be an important article, and it does seem to include useful external links .. but, most noticeably, there is only one in text reference (the details of which are unknown), and there are no references or citations as necessary and expected of Wiki encyclopedia articles, and does not, therefore, meet Wikipedia verfifiability standards etc..

I hope you agree and can assist clean up /upgrade this article to higher standard? I shall also categorise the article as a stub? Bruceanthro 00:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

re: cleanup
I agree that it is in dire need of a cleanup. I can find no source for the assertion that ethnobiology is also referred to as "biological anthropology" by anyone, and the wikipedia article on biological anthropology makes no such claim. Sources such as the biological anthropology web (http://www.bioanth.org/) say that it is synonymous with physical anthropology; I believe that this sentence should be removed,  but I am hesitant to do it myself as a new member.

GlennMatthewE (talk) 16:07, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

12 April 2008 Cut and Paste from Article
In collaboration with User:GlennMatthewE, I have started editing and contributing to this article, with the intention of expanding it.

For the time being .. I've cut and paste the following unreferenced paragraphs from the main article .. for possible re-use in the edit/expansion:


 * It is an which draws upon, and involves linguistics, anthropology, biology, chemistry.


 * The field itself focuses on the study of how human societies relate to the biosphere. Ethnobiology encompasses the study of human cultural relationships and knowledge of the living world in the past and the present worldwide. It has often emphasized the use of diverse flora and fauna by indigenous societies, but local knowledge of complex industrialized societies is also its proper study.


 * The term ethnobiology did not come into use until the twentieth century . However, ethnobotany as a term goes back to 1895, coined by John William Harshberger.

Bruceanthro (talk) 01:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

A VERY PARTIAL ARTICLE - certainly squewed to modern perpsectives, nothing about Chinese, Indian or African efforts here nor about mediaeval or even classical works on this theme. cf the ethnobotany article which does go back much further in time as to how this can be improved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.82.136.159 (talk) 16:27, 11 January 2015 (UTC)