B Brush
Biographic Data
| ID | 1332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Brush |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Brush |
| SIGNATURE | BRUSH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0412-4030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 515 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Agriculture: Modern Farming Systems
Farming systems involve biophysical and sociocultural components. No farming system is unchanging, and the processes of increased energy input and output and spatial integration have resulted in changes such as shorter fallow, longer cultivation cycles, the use of nonlocal resources, and an overall decrease in the proportion of agriculturalists in a population. Modern farming systems are characterized by high energy inputs, high output, reliance …
A Minor Role for Environmental Adaptation in Local–Scale Maize Landrace Distribution: Results from a Common Garden Experiment in Oaxaca, Mexico1
Agrobiodiversity and the law: Regulating genetic resources, food security and cultural diversity
Earth Ovens (Píib) in the Maya Lowlands: Ethnobotanical Data Supporting Early Use
Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability
List of contributors Foreword Bruce D. The domestication of plants and animals: ten unanswered questions Paul Gepts, Robert Bettinger, Stephen Brush, Ardeshir Damania, Thomas Famula, Patrick McGuire and Calvin Qualset 1. The local origins of domestication Jared Diamond Part I. Early Steps in Agricultural Domestication: 2. Evolution of agro-ecosystems: biodiversity, origins and differential development David R. Harris 3. From foraging to farming i…
Farmers’ Rights and Protection of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge
Describing Maize (Zea mays L.) Landrace Persistence in the Bajío of Mexico: A Survey of 1940s and 1950s Collection Locations
Tzeltal and Tzotzil Farmer Knowledge and Maize Diversity in Chiapas, Mexico
Different maize races dominate the highland communities of the Tzotzil and the Tzeltal of highland Chiapas, Mexico. When Tzeltal and Tzotzil informants from four communities were asked to sort photographs of maize varieties from the two municipalities according to ear similarity and the pictured variety's ability to produce on their communities' lands, their responses revealed that they have a common system of maize classification based on color …
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Maize diversity and ethnolinguistic diversity in Chiapas, Mexico
The objective of this study is to investigate whether ethnolinguistic diversity influences crop diversity. Factors suggest a correlation between biological diversity of crops and cultural diversity. Although this correlation has been noted, little systematic research has focused on the role of culture in shaping crop diversity. This paper reports on research in the Maya highlands (altitude > 1,800 m) of central Chiapas in southern Mexico that exa…
Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity
Farmers' Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World
This book defines the dimensions of crop diversity and questions surrounding it. Understanding the nature of crop diversity and its fate in the modern world is an international scientific enterprise that draws scientists from many different disciplines—archaeology, geography, botany, genetics, anthropology, and economics. Since the mid-nineteenth century, many investigators have dealt with this topic and have defined an array of scientific, indus…
Crop Diversity in Peasant and IndustrializedAgriculture: Mexico and California
The loss of biological diversity of crops in centers of crop origins and evolution ("Vavilov centers") is recognized as a cost of agricultural modernization. Another effect is to alter processes of crop evolution by restructuring farmer seed management. This article uses two case studies of "traditional" and "developed" agriculture to examine crop diversity and the management of crop evolutionary processes. The Mexican milpa is regarded as a desc…
Landraces of Maize in Central Mexico: An Altitudinal Transect
Dynamic Management of Maize Landraces in Central Mexico
Bioprospecting the Public Domain
Transforming Societies, Transforming Anthropology
Transforming Societies, Transforming Anthropology. EMILIO F. MORAN. ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. xil. 361 pp., contributors, index
Bio-cooperation and the benefits of crop genetic resources: The case of Mexican maize
Making Nature, Shaping Culture: Plant Biodiversity in Global Context
Anthropology and the Conservation of Biodiversity
Conservation programs for protected areas and plant genetic resources have evolved in similar ways, beginning with a focus on single species and expanding to ecosystem strategies that involve the participation of local people. Anthropologists have described the increasing importance of the participation of local people in conservation programs, both of local populations in protected area management and of farmers in plant genetic resources. Both …
In Situ Conservation of Landraces in Centers of Crop Diversity
The importance of crop germplasm found in landraces is well established, and a comprehensive international program exists to conserve this resource ex situ in gene banks and botanical gardens. Landraces are still cultivated in regions of crop domestication and diversity. In situ maintenance has been neglected by genetic resource conservation programs in part because of misconceptions about farming systems that produce landraces. This paper presen…
A conversation on Conversations: Conversations in Colombia: The Domestic Economy in Life and Text. STEPHEN Gude-MAN and Alberto Rivera
Keepers of maize in Chiapas, Mexico
Indigenous Knowledge of Biological Resources and Intellectual Property Rights: The Role of Anthropology
Reconsidering the green revolution: Diversity and stability in cradle areas of crop domestication
Anthropology and the Conservation of Biodiversity
Conservation programs for protected areas and plant genetic resources have evolved in similar ways, beginning with a focus on single species and expanding to ecosystem strategies that involve the participation of local people. Anthropologists have described the increasing importance of the participation of local people in conservation programs, both of local populations in protected area management and of farmers in plant genetic resources. Both …
Indigenous Knowledge of Biological Resources and Intellectual Property Rights: The Role of Anthropology
Dynamics of Andean potato agriculture
Keepers of maize in Chiapas, Mexico
Technology adoption and biological diversity in Andean potato agriculture
Bioprospecting the Public Domain
Landraces of Maize in Central Mexico: An Altitudinal Transect
Dynamic Management of Maize Landraces in Central Mexico
A Farmer-based approach to conserving crop germplasm
The Concept of Carrying Capacity for Systems of Shifting Cultivation1
The concept of carrying capacity is related to homeostatic regulation as part of the "new ecology" paradigm. Formulas designed to measure the man-land balance of tropical horticulturalists reveal two problem areas. Theoretically, the relationship between homeostasis, change, and evolution remains indefinite. Methodologically, there are substantial difficulties in defining cultural and environmental components of the formula and in obtaining diach…
Biochemical and folk assessment of variability of andean cultivated potatoes
Farmers’ Rights and Protection of Traditional Agricultural Knowledge
Earth Ovens (Píib) in the Maya Lowlands: Ethnobotanical Data Supporting Early Use
Tzeltal and Tzotzil Farmer Knowledge and Maize Diversity in Chiapas, Mexico
Different maize races dominate the highland communities of the Tzotzil and the Tzeltal of highland Chiapas, Mexico. When Tzeltal and Tzotzil informants from four communities were asked to sort photographs of maize varieties from the two municipalities according to ear similarity and the pictured variety's ability to produce on their communities' lands, their responses revealed that they have a common system of maize classification based on color …
Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity
Farmer's rights and genetic conservation in traditional farming systems
Bio-cooperation and the benefits of crop genetic resources: The case of Mexican maize
Describing Maize (Zea mays L.) Landrace Persistence in the Bajío of Mexico: A Survey of 1940s and 1950s Collection Locations
Social Factors and Selective Technology Adoption: The Case of Integrated Pest Management
The adoption of most introduced technologies is limited and often partial, even when their benefits have been proven through research and experimentation. This study illustrates the extent to which farmers are selective and adaptive in their adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices for pears in California, USA. Adoption was studied in relation to five social factors: education, influence of agricultural extension, market strategy, f…
Conflictos intercomunitarios en los Andes
Los estudios traen abundantes materiales y teorías sobre la naturaleza de las relaciones entre las comunidades campesinas y las haciendas (Tullis 1970), entre indios y mestizos (Stein 1972), y entre dominantes y dominados (Cotler). En cambio hay poco material publicado sobre las relaciones existentes entre aldeas vecinas; el material recogido por Fuenzalida (1968) y otros sobre Huayopampa es una excepción importante. Con el presente artículo espe…
Basic and Applied Research in Farming Systems: An Anthropologist's Appraisal
The relation of basic anthropological research to applied Farming Systems Research (FSR) is discussed. A case study involving two anthropologists engaged in basic research on Andean agriculture who collaborated with a FSR program of the International Potato Center is examined. This case shows that cooperation is feasible and beneficial, although serious constraints exist. Constraints arise from differences in objectives and methodologies and from…
A Minor Role for Environmental Adaptation in Local–Scale Maize Landrace Distribution: Results from a Common Garden Experiment in Oaxaca, Mexico1
Crop Diversity in Peasant and IndustrializedAgriculture: Mexico and California
The loss of biological diversity of crops in centers of crop origins and evolution ("Vavilov centers") is recognized as a cost of agricultural modernization. Another effect is to alter processes of crop evolution by restructuring farmer seed management. This article uses two case studies of "traditional" and "developed" agriculture to examine crop diversity and the management of crop evolutionary processes. The Mexican milpa is regarded as a desc…
Reply to Vayda
Agrobiodiversity and the law: Regulating genetic resources, food security and cultural diversity
Conflictos intercomunitarios en los Andes
Los estudios traen abundantes materiales y teorías sobre la naturaleza de las relaciones entre las comunidades campesinas y las haciendas (Tullis 1970), entre indios y mestizos (Stein 1972), y entre dominantes y dominados (Cotler). En cambio hay poco material publicado sobre las relaciones existentes entre aldeas vecinas; el material recogido por Fuenzalida (1968) y otros sobre Huayopampa es una excepción importante. Con el presente artículo espe…
The Concept of Carrying Capacity for Systems of Shifting Cultivation1
The concept of carrying capacity is related to homeostatic regulation as part of the "new ecology" paradigm. Formulas designed to measure the man-land balance of tropical horticulturalists reveal two problem areas. Theoretically, the relationship between homeostasis, change, and evolution remains indefinite. Methodologically, there are substantial difficulties in defining cultural and environmental components of the formula and in obtaining diach…
Man's use of an andean ecosystem
Reply to Vayda
Mountain, Field, and Family: The Economy and Human Ecology of an Andean Valley
Arequipa y el Sur Andino: Ensayo de historia regional, siglos XVIII-XX
To Defend Ourselves: Ecology and Ritual in an Andean Village
The Basin of Mexico: Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization
The Basin of Mexico: Ecological Processes in the Evolution of a Civilization
Dynamics of Andean potato agriculture
Anthropology at NSF-Current Status
The Natural and Human Environment of the Central Andes
Stephen B. Brush, The Natural and Human Environment of the Central Andes, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 2, No. 1, State of Knowledge Report on Andean Ecosystems. Vol. 2: Human Population and Biosphere Interactions in the Central Andes (Feb., 1982), pp. 19-38
Agricultural Choice and Change: Decision Making in a Costa Rican Community . Peggy F. Barlett
Small-Scale Agro-Pastoral Production in the Central Andes
Small-scale agro-pastoral production in the Central Andes is oriented toward guaranteeing a subsistence livelihood by efforts to attain self-sufficiency in food production and to reduce environmental risks. Production strategies involve the simultaneous use of several ecological zones each with characteristic crops or types of pasture. Households are the basic units of production which allocate land, labour, and capital at their disposal to meet …
Basic and Applied Research in Farming Systems: An Anthropologist's Appraisal
The relation of basic anthropological research to applied Farming Systems Research (FSR) is discussed. A case study involving two anthropologists engaged in basic research on Andean agriculture who collaborated with a FSR program of the International Potato Center is examined. This case shows that cooperation is feasible and beneficial, although serious constraints exist. Constraints arise from differences in objectives and methodologies and from…
Agricultural development and maize diversity in Mexico
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Intervillage Conffict in Oaxaca . Philip A. Dennis
Extending integrated pest management by public mandate: A case study from California
This case study systematically analyzed the adoption, over a seven‐year period, of governmentally mandated integrated pest management (IPM) practices by brussels sprouts growers in California. Promotion of required IPM practices were complemented by research, technical assistance, and education carried out by Cooperative Extension and other resources. Information, infrastructure, and perceived risk factors that affected growers and their nonadopt…
Biochemical and folk assessment of variability of andean cultivated potatoes
A Farmer-based approach to conserving crop germplasm
Reconsidering the green revolution: Diversity and stability in cradle areas of crop domestication
Farmer's rights and genetic conservation in traditional farming systems
Technology adoption and biological diversity in Andean potato agriculture
Social Factors and Selective Technology Adoption: The Case of Integrated Pest Management
The adoption of most introduced technologies is limited and often partial, even when their benefits have been proven through research and experimentation. This study illustrates the extent to which farmers are selective and adaptive in their adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices for pears in California, USA. Adoption was studied in relation to five social factors: education, influence of agricultural extension, market strategy, f…
Indigenous Knowledge of Biological Resources and Intellectual Property Rights: The Role of Anthropology
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