Curating biocultural collections : a handbook /
Salick, Jan,1949-editor of compilation.
Konchar, Katie,editor of compilation.
Nesbitt, Mark,1961-editor of compilation.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Missouri Botanical Garden.
Botanical Society of America.Meeting(2011 :Saint Louis, Mo.)
Society for Economic Botany (U.S.).Meeting(52nd :2011 :Saint Louis, Mo.)
Botany (Conference)(2011 :Saint Louis, Mo.)
"Biocultural collections document the remarkable richness and diversity of human engagements with nature. This handbook, written and edited by experts from around the world, is the first practical resource for those involved in the use and curation of such collections. All aspects of the field are covered, from the curation of specimens, artefacts and documents to their associated reference materials and metadata. Throughout there is a strong emphasis on the needs of collection users, ethical considerations and engagement with source communities. This book will be of interest to readers in a wide range of fields including ethnobiology, anthropology, archaeology, agriculture, botany, geography, history, zoology and museum curation."--Back cover.
Outgrowth of a workshop entitled "Biocultural Collections: Establishing Curation Standards" held July 11, 2011, at the joint Botanical Society of America and Society for Economic Botany meeting in St. Louis. (Page 11 and societies' websites).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Biocultural collections : needs, ethics and goals / Jan Salick, Katie Konchar & Mark Nesbitt. Box: ethical standards in ethnobiology / Ethnobiology Working Group -- Featured biocultural collections. Missouri Botanical Garden, biocultural collection / Katie Konchar & Jan Salick ; National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, economic botany collection / Peter Wyse Jackson & Matthew Jebb ; National Museum of Natural History, Paris, ethnobiology collections / Serge Bahuchet ; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, economic botany collection / Mark Nesbit ; Smithsonian collections / Michele Austin-Dennehy & Adrienne Kaeppler -- Curating ethnographic specimens / Jan Timbrook. Box: Curating ethnographic textiles. Box: Labelling : what not to do -- Herbarium curation of biocultural plant collections and vouchers / Jan Salick & James Solomon. Box: Herbarium collections -- Curating ethnobiological products / Michael J. Balick & Katherine Herrera. Box: The Henry Hurd Rusby collection of economic botany -- Curating palaeoethnobotanical specimens and botanical reference collections / Deborah M. Pearsall -- Curating ethnozoological and zooarchaeological collections / Terrance Martin -- Curating DNA specimens / David M. Spooner & Holly Ruess -- Curating seeds and other genetic resources for ethnobiology / David Dierig, Harvey Blackburn, David Ellis & Mark Nesbitt. Box: United States National Plant Germplasm System. Box: Storage protocols for seeds at National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP). Box: Project MGU : The Useful Plants Project at the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) / Tiziana Ulian -- Curating xylaria / Alex C. Wiedenhoeft -- Living plant collections and ethnobotany in botanic gardens / Andrew Wyatt. Box: Living biocultural collections -- Database standards for biocultural collections / Alyse Kuhlman & Jan Salick -- Curating ethnographic information for biocultural collections / Serge Bahuchet. Box: Biocultural collections of French Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris. Box: Recovering cultural context : a basketry shield from the Amazon / Cristina Rico Liria. Box: Process is important : Cuban cigars / Peter Wyse Jackson. Box: Process is important : mastic / Peter Wyse Jackson. Box: Draft structure for the ethnobiological data base in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris / Flora Pennec, Simon Juraver, Marina Quiñe & Serge Bahuchet -- Cataloguing and curation of ethnobiological books and archives / Judith Warnement. Box: Botanical and economic botany library collections of Harvard. Box: Conservation at the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. Box: Storage and display at the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden. Box: Palmer Collection at Harvard -- Curating ethnobiological photographs / Will McClatchey & Kim Bridges. Box: A specific example of archival storage -- Linguistic and audio-video collections in ethnobiology / K. David Harrison & Karim Sariahmed -- Legal aspects of biocultural collections / Charles R. McManis & John S. Pelletier -- Indigenous perceptions of biocultural collections / Jane Mt. Pleasant -- Native American perspectives on biocultural collections and cultural restoration / Linda S. Bishop -- Multicultural perspectives on biocultural collections / Neil R. Crouch, Henrik Balslev, Kamal Bawa, Robert Bye, Sangay Dema, Edelmira Linares, Pei Shengji, Armand Randrianasolo & John Rashford. Box: Repatriation of the Zimbabwe birds / Neil R. Crouch -- Historical perspectives on Western ethnobotanical collections / Caroline Cornish & Mark Nesbitt. Box: The ethnobotany collection -- Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro / Viviane Stern da Fonseca-Kruel -- Research using biocultural collections / David M. Spooner -- Use of herbarium specimens in ethnobotany / Mark Nesbitt -- Biocultural collections for conservation / Robbie Hart, Wayne Law & Peter Wyse Jackson -- Using biocultural collections for education / Catrina T. Adams & Gayle J. Fritz. Box: Sacred seeds : a global network of living useful plants collections / Ashley Glenn -- Biocultural collections : the view from an art museum / Matthew H. Robb -- Biocultural collections : exhibition concept, planning, and design / Tom Klobe & Michael B. Thomas.
"Biocultural collections document the remarkable richness and diversity of human engagements with nature. This handbook, written and edited by experts from around the world, is the first practical resource for those involved in the use and curation of such collections. All aspects of the field are covered, from the curation of specimens, artefacts and documents to their associated reference materials and metadata. Throughout there is a strong emphasis on the needs of collection users, ethical considerations and engagement with source communities. This book will be of interest to readers in a wide range of fields including ethnobiology, anthropology, archaeology, agriculture, botany, geography, history, zoology and museum curation."--Back cover.
Ethnological museums and collections.
Natural history museums
Museums
Botanical gardens
Ethnobiology
Ethnobotany
Museum techniques.
Material culture
Biological specimens
Botanical specimens
Antiquities