The discipline of ethnobiology focuses on how cultural groups use the natural world around them. Plenary sessions for the conference will be devoted to unity and diversity in ethnobiology, applied ethnobiology, cognitive and linguistic aspects of ethnobiology, medical ethnobiology, ethnobotany, historical and archaeological ethnobiology and cultural diversity in ethnobiology. A number of researchers from UGA will present papers, including Brent Berlin, Ben Blount, Robert Rhoades and Elois Ann Berlin from the department of anthropology and Richard Westmacott from the School of Environmental Design. Scientists from numerous other institutions, such as the University of Washington, the University of Florida and McGill University, also will speak. Programs and receptions at the conference are supported by the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, the University of Georgia Museum of Natural History, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Humanities Center, the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, the departments of geography and geology and the Institute of Ecology, the Laboratory of Agricultural and Natural Resource Anthropology, and Richard Westmacott.
Registration is required for the four-day meeting.
Call LaBau Bryan at 542-1433 for more information.