| Date |
Topics |
Tasks |
Aug 25
Tuesday |
Course Introduction; Making a Professional Website; Building an Ethnobotanical Portfolio and CV |
Read: Salick, et al. 2003 |
Aug 27
Thursday |
Exercise: Plants I know |
TED Talk: Jimmy Wales |
Sept 1
Tuesday |
Transported Landscapes |
Submit: Web Site
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (The Land Ethic 201-203) |
Sept 3
Thursday |
Exercise: Make a landscape |
Read: Sauer 1952 Chap 1, Crosby 1986.
TED Talk: Yochai Benkler |
Sept 8
Tuesday |
Asking scientific questions and forming hypotheses |
Submit: CV
Read: McClatchey 2006
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Good Oak 6-18) |
Sept 10
Thursday |
Localization of global plants
Exercise: Stereotype plants |
Read: Sauer 1952 Chap 2; Sauer 1952 Chap 3
TED Talk: Michael Pollan |
Sept 15
Tuesday |
Ethnographic Methods
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Submit: Research Hypotheses
Read: Alexiades 1996
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Axe-in-Hand 72-77) |
Sept 17
Thursday |
Participant Observation
Discuss: Digital Posters |
Read: Spradley 1980 Chap 9
TED Talk: Clay Shirky |
Sept 22
Tuesday |
Human Subjects
Exercise: Questionnaire |
Read: Davis & Wagner 2004, Posey 1990
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Sept 24
Thursday |
Ethics and Dilemmas
Exercise: Human subjects |
Submit: Questionnaire
TED Talk: Has Rosling 1 |
Sept 29
Tuesday |
Voucher Specimens
Working with Plants |
Read: Cunningham 1996
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (A Mighty Fortress 77-82) |
Oct 1
Thursday |
Exercise: Herbarium
Demo: Google Earth Overlays |
TED Talk: Has Rosling 2 |
Oct 6
Tuesday |
Folk Taxonomy
Traditional Botanical Knowledge |
Submit: Informed Consent Form
Reading: Berlin 1992 Chap 1; Dupre 1999
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Thinking Like a Mountain 137-141) |
Oct 8
Thursday |
Exercise: Taxonomy |
TED Talk: Malcolm Gladwell |
Oct 13
Tuesday |
Home Gardens
Home Garden Survey
Similarity Analyses
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Read: Wester & Yongvanit 1995
Submit: Digital Poster
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Home Range 83-91) |
Oct 15
Thursday |
Markets: Consensus Analyses
Exercise: Market or garden
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Read: Nguyen 2005
TED Talk: |
Oct 20
Tuesday |
Diet Inventory |
Read: Wester & Chuensanguansat 1994
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Prairie Birthday 47-54) |
Oct 22
Thursday |
Human Activity Study
Exercise: Diet inventory |
Read: McClatchey et al. 2004
TED Talk: Mark Bittman |
Oct 27
Tuesday |
Psychoactive Plants
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Submit: Voucher specimens
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Cheat Takes Over 164-168) |
Oct 29
Thursday |
Plant, Religion and Globalization
Holiday Plants
Religion and Ethics |
TED Talk: Wade Davis |
Nov 3
Tuesday |
Ethnopharmacology
Medical Ethnograhy
Exercise: Ethnopharmacology |
Read: Browner et al. 1988; Etkin 1993; Phillips 1996; O'Fallon & Dearry 2002
Research Example: Keoki Baclayon |
Nov 5
Thursday |
Fungi in Society |
TED Talk: Paul Stamets |
Nov 10
Tuesday |
Cross-Cultural Toxidromes
Exercise: Ethnopharmacology |
Read: Dr.Peter Toxidromes; Sitholes et al. 2002; Sawyer et al. 1996
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Conservation Esthetic pp) |
Nov 12
Thursday |
Spatial Scales & Mapping
Exercise: Mapping |
Read: Cunningham 2001 Chap 6; Zent 1996
TED Talk: Ron Eglash |
Nov 17
Tuesday |
Ethics Discussion |
Submit: Research Methods
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Wildlife in American Culture 211-222) |
Nov 19
Thursday |
Biological and Cultural Diversity
Exercise: Diversity |
Read: Berkes 1999 Chap 4
TED Talk: Phil Borges |
Nov 24
Tuesday |
Ecosystem Services
Exercise: Measuring ecosystem services |
Submit: Research Project
Read: Veeman & Luckert 2002
TED Talk: Al Gore
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (Wilderness 264-279) |
Nov 26
Thursday |
Holiday (Invasion Day) |
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Dec 1
Tuesday |
Ethnobotany and Resilience |
Read: Christie 2008
Visit: www.cdu.edu.au/ik
Leopold: Ethical Dilemmas (The Land Ethic 237-264) |
Dec 3
Thursday |
Survival, Scientific Ethics & Society |
Read: Prance et al. 2007
Watch: Did You Know
TED Talk: Majora Carter |
Dec 8
Tuesday |
Student Project Presentations |
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Dec 10
Thursday |
Student Project Presentations |
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Final Exam |
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