Dear EOers, I recently have been getting into ethnography with inclusion of birds as part of the "culture" being studied and found your group. This is just...
LoraKim, I haven't worked in the biosphere reserve but do work with several Mayan groups in Guatemala and Belize, so interested in hearing more about what you...
Dear LoraKim, Welcome aboard! Your post interested me a lot. Have you published anything on birds as moral agents and subjects in an ethno-ornithological...
Yes, this is a very interesting topic. I found this reference quite interesting in this regard: Proctor, J.D. (1998) The Spotted Owl and the Contested Moral...
Dear Mann, Thanks so much for this reference! I wrote a long reply to Nancy privately on her question below for it kind of rambled. If anyone else is...
Dear all, Great thread and please feel free to share your thoughts with us all - rambling or otherwise! I'm interested in whether there is a definition or...
FYI FYI - but the deadline for Abstracts etc is 2 March! **************** The Animals & Religion Consultation of the American Academy of Religion invites...
Dear all, This may be of interest... There is now a proposed list of Swedish names recently made available by the authorities in that country. This will be of...
Dear all, Some of you may be familiar with the Yahoo birding group Oriental Birding (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orientalbirding/?yguid=291132901) where...
Dear all, More birds in LOTE (Languages other than English) Through the agency of the Mr Jevgeni Shergalin and his posts on the Yahoo group Birds in Russia...
Robert, Non-humans are actors in their own right, but they are never alone in acting. Actors that way are situated in networks, and their agency comes about...
Dear all, Here is a link to a list of bird names in Spanish of the birds of Mexico: http://www.siti.com.mx/musave.dir/htm.dir/Spalist.html Lista completa de...
Dear Bob, I am thinking of Mark Bekoff's books and the realm of virtue ethics. Through the realm of "character" and "emotions" we link what we call human...
Yes. Many birds in Mexico have numerous local names. Standardization in Spanish is not equal to the preservation of local names, but it's a start, and...
Hi,  Thank you Audrey for this wonderful photos with the story between the Great White and Man. Sharks like the Great White that we fear from attacks,...
Dear all, Just a quick word to advise of the recent postings to my Crikey blog, *The Northern Myth* over the past week or so to today, 21 February 2009. The...
Dear Colleages, This is one of areas of interest and I find it amazing that indigenous groups who live closely and share a common system develop stories and...
I followed up on a few searches on this story shortly after it was posted...a little bell rang - not least because the coastline in the background of some of...
Dear Colleagues, I am wondering if any of you use a "rapid ethnographic assessment" when you have a short time in the field to assess a situation? I am going...
DUNCAN-KEMP, A. M. Our Channel Country, A&R, 1961. Duncan-Kemp published a number of books in the early and mid twentieth century recounting her experiences...
Dear all, It's been a while since I've sent an update on my recent posts so I've got lots of new and slightly older posts to talk about. I'm in Baton Rouge in...
Dear all, I've been traveling and working over the past few months so haven't sent out a note about my recent posts to the Northern Myth. A few are related to...
See the Questions and Answers section in savanna.cdu.edu.au/downloads/tropical78.pdf My question is whether any birds in the world purposefully start fires to...
Re kites as "firebirds" - I can see a number of references to this on the internet, e.g. in an article on the domestication of fire in the journal *Human...
In the early 1990s I was lucky to work with a number of bright young research assistants who recorded ethnoornithological information for me in exercise books....
