Virginia D. Nazarea

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Ethnoecology

Situated Knowledge/Located Lives

The University of Arizona Press
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Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers

Marginality and Memory in the Conservation of Biological Diversity

The University of Arizona Press

Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers offers a much-needed, scientifically researched perspective on the contribution of seedsaving that illustrates its critical significance to the preservation of both cultural knowledge and crop diversity around the world. It opens new conversations between anthropology and biology, and between researchers and practitioners, as it honors conservation as a way of life.

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Moveable Gardens

Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory

The University of Arizona Press

Moveable Gardens explores the ways people make sanctuaries with plants and other traveling companions in the midst of ongoing displacement in today’s world. This volume addresses how the destruction of homelands, fragmentation of habitats, and post-capitalist conditions of modernity are countered by the remembrance of tradition and the migration of seeds, which are embodied in gardening, cooking, and community building.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Cultural Memory and Biodiversity

The University of Arizona Press

Interweaving a wealth of ecological and cognitive data with oral history, Nazarea details a "memory banking" protocol for collecting and conserving cultural information to complement the genetic, agronomic, and biochemical characterization of important crops.

  • Copyright year: 1998
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Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope

Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity

The University of Arizona Press

Without denying the gravity of the problems of feeding the earth’s population while conserving its natural resources, Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope reminds us that there are many positive movements and developments, especially at the grass-roots level, that demonstrate the power of opposition and optimism.

  • Copyright year: 2013
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